Simultaneous buy-and-sell in Paris: dedicated hunter

Your project

Your buy-and-sell project

Simultaneous buy-and-sell is one of the most stressful real estate projects. Sell too fast, risk being roofless. Sell too late, finance the new purchase with a costly bridge loan. Your hunter calibrates both operations in parallel for a smooth landing.

Both sides synchronized

One lead hunter coordinates your sale (valuation, listing, negotiation) and purchase (sourcing, visits, negotiation). Single calendar, single communication, coherent decisions.

Financial optimization

Evaluation of needed or avoidable bridge loan, capital gain tax, integration of post-sale capital, articulation with your broker. The goal: pay as little interim interest as possible.

Legal security

Crossed suspensive conditions in the preliminary (purchase conditional on sale), failure clauses, notary support on both, articulation with your notary or ours per your preference.

0 night out Our goal on every buy-and-sell: leave one roof, enter the next, no transition.

Our method

How your buy-and-sell unfolds

Five steps to orchestrate sale and purchase without a hitch.

01

Study of both operations
Week 1

First meeting to frame both sides: honest valuation of your current property, full financial capacity (net sale + capital + loan), criteria for the future purchase. Scenario choice: sell first, buy first, or in parallel.
02

Structured listing
Weeks 2 to 6

Property preparation (light home staging, professional photos, description), distribution channels (our network, partner agencies, off-market), visit and offer management. Sell at fair price, not the highest that would scare buyers.
03

Parallel purchase
Ongoing

While listing, your hunter selects and presents purchase candidates. Calendar is calibrated so both preliminaries sign within a few weeks, or with crossed suspensive clauses.
04

Crossed preliminaries
Coordinated

Sale and purchase preliminaries signed in a tight window (ideally 2 weeks). Suspensive conditions synced with your bank. Same notaries for both if possible to streamline timelines.
05

Switch and move
D-day

Sale and purchase signed ideally the same day or 48 hours apart. If short transition, we refer you to partners (storage, long-stay hotel, mover). You get the new keys with no buffer.

Comparison

Why a property hunter

Alone Home Select

Search duration 9 months 45 days

Visits before deciding 40+ 3

Time invested 150 h 15 h

Negotiation 0 to 2 % 6 %

Off-market access limited full

Averages observed across 1,200 completed missions in Paris since 2011.

They sold-and-bought with us

Buy-and-sell testimonials

We wanted to move from a 3-room in the 12th to a 5-room in the 17th for our growing family. Everything coordinated: sale in 5 weeks, purchase in 8 weeks, signings 10 days apart, zero night out. The calendar seemed impossible, they made it feel natural.

I had a flat to sell rue de Charonne and wanted to buy back rue de Rivoli. My hunter managed both preliminaries the same day.

Capital gain optimized, bridge loan avoided, move over a weekend. Orchestration easily worth the fees.

Frequently asked

Your questions on simultaneous buy-and-sell

Sell before buying, or the reverse?

Depends on financial capacity, market tension on origin and destination districts, and risk tolerance. Selling first secures purchase funding but exposes to not finding. Buying first guarantees the property but needs a bridge loan. We decide together at the first meeting.

What is a bridge loan, do I need one?

A bridge loan is a short-term credit (12 to 24 months) funding the new purchase pending the sale of the old. It costs interim interest (rate between 4 and 6% currently) and setup costs. We avoid it when possible by syncing calendars, and optimize it when unavoidable.

How to synchronize both operations?

Several levers: crossed suspensive conditions in the purchase preliminary (purchase depends on sale), both preliminaries signed in the same tight window (2 to 3 weeks), same notaries to streamline, negotiation of deed dates with buyer and seller. Our role is precisely this synchronization.

What if I do not find my new property in time?

Several safety nets: negotiated extension of the deed date on the sale, short-term rental, partner storage. The crossed suspensive clause also protects against not selling in time.

What are your buy-and-sell fees?

For buy-and-sell, our fees are 2.5% of the purchase price with a €10,000 incl. VAT minimum. On the sale side, our fees are payable by seller (you) or buyer per negotiation, at 3 to 4% of sale price per mandate. All clarified at the first meeting, no surprises.

Do you work with my current notary?

Yes, we work with your notary if you have one. Otherwise we refer you to our partner notaries (Paris 8th) who master simultaneous buy-and-sells. For this type of operation, having the same notary on both sides is a real accelerator.