Second home in Perros-Guirec: the guide

Four sectors, four uses. The centre of Perros gives life on foot: family villas and apartments a few steps from the market and Trestraou beach, the simplest management, character houses that rarely come up and go fast. Trestraou gives the great beach: seafront apartments and villas set back, sought by families for the summer. Ploumanac’h and its harbour give the rare address facing the Sept-Îles, obtained through patience and the network. Trestrignel and the west coast give calm and wide views, from discreet villas above the rocks.

Between the family house and the pied-à-terre, the question is real use. A large granite house welcomes several generations in summer, but it demands constant upkeep and a restoration budget; a seafront apartment closes and reopens with the minimum, if the co-ownership is well run. Trébeurden and Trégastel, on the same coast, are part of the search.

The real question of a second home is the time between stays. In Perros-Guirec, sea air and granite demand constant upkeep: joinery and roofs working against the open sea, damp in an old house that is barely heated, garden and hedges growing between visits and, if the plot lies in a zone exposed to fire, compulsory brush clearance over fifty metres around the buildings. A closed house is ventilated, kept frost-free and checked after storms; this rhythm is budgeted before the offer, not after the first winter.

Three points are read before the offer rather than after. The condition of the building: granite houses, sound in appearance, sometimes hide damp, joinery and a roof to redo; have the works costed before the offer. The rules of the protected site around Ploumanac’h: a conservatory, a raised roof or an access may run up against them, and here owners restore more than they extend. Drainage, finally: if the house is not connected to mains sewerage, the individual system is inspected by the SPANC, and a non-compliance is costed before signing. Home Select builds this logic of absence into the selection from the start: condition, access, aspect, what the house costs when you are not there.

The Perros market almost closes in summer and trades at the autumn return and in spring, often without a listing. For a buyer who lives elsewhere, the calendar is prepared in advance: brief by video call or by telephone from the summer; qualification of properties on documents, surveys, minutes and the rules of the protected site; video pre-viewings steered by Home Select with the seller’s agent; then a single trip, in mid-season or late season, for the decisive viewings, grouped together.

The price is set against comparable sales from the DVF survey, negotiation and securing the preliminary contract follow, the notary is coordinated, and a power of attorney allows the deed to be signed without returning. Home Select steers the search from its management, with its network of 15,000 partners, and receives more than 100 off-market properties every day, on a coast where character houses change hands without being advertised. Home Select’s fees are due 100% on success, nothing before completion. For the taxation of a second home and succession, your notary and a tax adviser take over.