Paris buyer's agent and property hunter: a tailored search

Your project

Five projects, one service

Every Paris purchase has its own constraints. Your hunter adapts the method to suit. Pick the project closest to yours to read about Home Select's approach in detail.

Prestige search

Exceptional properties, noble floors, hôtels particuliers. A confidential search built on the off-market network: around 15% of Paris sales close without a listing.

Main home

You are buying the home you will live in. Arrondissement, floor, light, layout: your hunter filters the market and only brings you the three or four flats worth your time.

First purchase

You are buying in Paris for the first time. Your hunter walks you through every step (preliminary contract, conditions precedent, financing) and helps you sidestep the pitfalls.

You are buying for lasting value: a future home, a pied-à-terre or a property to pass on. Your hunter targets properties whose rarity protects their value (location, floor, quality of the building) before every offer.

Second home

You live elsewhere in France or abroad. Your hunter handles everything from a distance: pre-viewings, live video tours, detailed reports. A single trip to Paris is usually enough.

The split

What your hunter does, what stays your call

Hiring a property hunter does not mean losing control of your purchase. Every decision stays yours; Home Select takes on all the legwork.

Your hunter

Turn your project into a precise brief, area by area
Source the public market and the off-market daily, and alert 15,000 partner agents
Pre-view and rule out, so you only see the properties worth your time
Analyse the co-ownership, charges, energy rating, works needed and the real price per sqm
Draft the offer and run the negotiation with the seller or their agent
Coordinate notary, broker and surveys through to the handover of the keys

You

Set the budget, the areas and the non-negotiables
Decide which shortlisted properties you want to view
Choose the property: Home Select never signs in your place
Set the offer price and the ceiling beyond which you walk away
Pick your notary and your financing

The two Home Select offers

Exclusive or Confidential

The service is identical: a dedicated hunter searches, pre-views, attends viewings with you, negotiates and stays at your side through to the keys. What changes: Exclusive, the exclusive mandate at 2.5%, works the whole market; Confidential, the simple mandate at 1.5%, reserved for projects of €2M and above, only presents you with off-market properties.

Exclusive Exclusive mandate · 2.5% incl. VAT, min €10,000 incl. VAT · All budgets Confidential Simple mandate · 1.5% incl. VAT · Projects of €2M and above

Dedicated hunter, from the brief to the keys Inclus Inclus

Brief and search strategy Inclus Inclus

Pre-viewings with commented video Inclus Inclus

Viewings arranged and attended with you Inclus Inclus

Negotiation led by your hunter (6% on average) Inclus Inclus

Review of the sale agreement, notary coordination Inclus Inclus

Search scope The whole market: listings, 15,000-partner network, off-market Off-market properties only

Mandate Exclusive: you entrust your search to Home Select Simple: you remain free to search in parallel

Project budget All budgets €2M and above

Fees, on success only 2.5% incl. VAT of the net purchase price, min €10,000 incl. VAT 1.5% incl. VAT of the net purchase price

The Confidential offer is reserved for acquisition projects of €2M and above: that is the segment where access to the off-market network matters most, given that around 15% of Paris transactions complete without a public listing. Below that threshold, the Exclusive offer applies.

Plainly

When to call on Home Select, and when to do without

A property hunter is not the right answer to every search. Better said before you call Home Select.

Home Select is useful if

You are short of time, or searching from far away
You have been searching for months without success
Your brief is precise and your area competitive
You want to see properties before they are listed
You are buying remotely and need someone on the ground

Home Select is less so if

Your budget is below €400,000: under that, the €10,000 minimum Home Select charges weighs more than 2.5%
You have already found the property and only want help negotiating
You are searching outside Paris and the towns Home Select covers
You have time, know the area well and enjoy the search

Results

What you can expect

Home Select records these averages across 1,200+ completed searches since 2011. These are averages, not a commitment: the market and the property decide.

45 days: average search time against 6 months searching alone
3: viewings before buying against 40 or more on your own
6%: negotiated off the asking price €48,000 on an €800,000 property
15 h: of your own time against 150 h searching alone

They bought with Home Select

Client testimonials

We called on Catherine after more than 8 months of searching unsuccessfully on our own, and it was the best decision we could have made. In just one week, she found the ideal apartment for us, and our offer was accepted despite several competing bids. Catherine was remarkably professional, always available, attentive, responsive and reassuring throughout the buying process. She was with us every step of the way, from the viewing to the signing, with great diligence and real knowledge of the market. We warmly recommend her to anyone who wants to be in good hands during their property search!

Anne is very professional, attentive and responsive. Thanks to her we were able to find our apartment on time and within budget. Thank you, Anne!

Excellent and highly effective collaboration with Gwénaëlle Benon (Home Select) in the search for a specific property in Paris. Gwénaëlle was the perfect partner: very professional, available, attentive, knowledgeable about her market and constantly adapting to the ups and downs of such a search. A successful experience and a very pleasant relationship. We found our property, and the first few days in the apartment confirmed our enthusiasm for it. Thanks again, Gwénaëlle.

Frequently asked

Your questions on the property search

Why hire a property hunter in Paris?

The Paris market is tight, opaque and time-consuming: on average, a buyer working alone sees 40 flats over six months and has little room to negotiate. Home Select brings that down to three viewings in 45 days, and secures an average of 6% off the asking price. Home Select charges 2.5% of the net purchase price on the Exclusive offer (with a €10,000 incl. VAT minimum), a fee usually more than recovered through the negotiation and through access to off-market properties.

Are you a buyer's agent?

Yes. On a search mandate, Home Select acts as your buyer's agent, the role known in France as a chasseur immobilier, or property hunter: you are Home Select's only client on that purchase, your hunter takes your side in the negotiation, and the fee is paid by you and not by the seller. Home Select, a property hunter in Paris, also runs a separate selling service for owners, under its own mandate, but never represents both sides of the same deal.

What are your fees?

Home Select, a property hunter in Paris, offers two plans, with the same full service. Exclusive, the exclusive search mandate: 2.5% of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT, across the whole market. Confidential, the simple search mandate, reserved for projects of €2M and above: 1.5% of the net purchase price, on a selection made up exclusively of off-market properties. In both cases, fees are paid only on success: you pay nothing until you have signed the deed of sale at the notary's office. Signing the Home Select mandate triggers no payment whatsoever.

What is the Confidential offer?

It is Home Select's simple search mandate, reserved for acquisition projects of €2M and above. The support is the same as with the Exclusive offer: dedicated hunter, pre-viewings, accompanied viewings, negotiation led for you, review of the sale agreement, notary coordination, through to the keys. The difference: only off-market properties are presented to you, drawn from the flow Home Select receives from its 15,000 partners, and the simple mandate leaves you free to search in parallel. Fee: 1.5% of the net purchase price, due only on success.

What is your average time to find a property?

Home Select takes 45 days on average between the signing of its mandate and the signing of the preliminary contract. The exact figure depends on how tight your target arrondissement is and how precise your brief is. In very tight markets (the 6th, the 7th, the Marais), it can stretch to 60 or 75 days; in more open arrondissements (the 11th, 17th or 18th), 25 to 35 days is typical.

Do you cover all of Paris and the suburbs?

With its 16 hunters, Home Select covers the whole of Paris intra-muros and the bordering towns of Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne (Neuilly, Boulogne, Saint-Mandé, Vincennes, Levallois). For Yvelines, the northern 92 or the outer suburbs, please get in touch so Home Select can confirm coverage.

What happens at the first meeting?

Roughly an hour, either in Home Select's offices at 60 rue François 1er (Paris 8th) or by video, with no commitment and no fee. The team discusses your project, your brief and your budget, and introduces the method and the hunter who will lead your search. You leave with a clear sense of the next steps.

Can I change hunter mid-search?

Yes; simply ask. Every buyer is assigned a lead hunter chosen for the project and the arrondissements involved. If the chemistry isn't right or your search shifts into an area your hunter doesn't cover, Home Select reassigns you without fuss.