Prestige search
Some properties are never advertised: they change hands through the network, before any listing. Since 2011, our hunters have run confidential searches across Paris luxury real estate: noble floors, top floors, hôtels particuliers, sought-after addresses. 15 to 25% of premium transactions happen off-market, 100+ properties reach us daily through our network, 6% average negotiation.
Your search
An exceptional property is not found in the listings: it is detected upstream, through the network. Your hunter mobilises agents, notaries, building managers and concierges in your target neighbourhoods, vets every opportunity with an owner's eye, and protects your identity and your budget throughout the search.
In Paris, 15 to 25% of transactions in the premium arrondissements (6th, 7th, 8th, 16th) close without a public listing. Our network of 15,000 partners sends us over 100 off-market properties per day, including discreet sales that will never be published.
Your identity, your budget and your criteria do not circulate. The search runs under a discreet mandate: we approach sellers and their advisers without exposing your name, and viewings are arranged in private slots.
Noble floor, ceiling height, quality of the build, easements, co-ownership, renovation potential: every property is analysed as a long-term asset before it is ever presented. The average reduction negotiated is 6% off the asking price.
15-25% Share of transactions completed without a public listing in the premium arrondissements of Paris (6th, 7th, 8th, 16th).
How we work
The same method honed since 2011, with the level of rigour and discretion that exceptional properties demand.
An in-depth conversation at your home, at our offices at 60 rue François 1er or by video. Exceptional criteria (address, floor, view, outdoor space, architectural signature), total budget, discretion requirements. The search mandate frames the confidentiality of the mission.
Your criteria are circulated without your identity to the relevant partners in your target neighbourhoods: agencies, notaries, building managers, concierges. Sales in preparation are detected before any listing appears.
Your hunter pre-views every serious opportunity alone and builds a full file: photos, floor plans, the property's history, co-ownership analysis, renovation estimates, and price positioning against actual recorded sales (DVF notarial data).
You only visit properties worth your time, in private slots that fit your diary, accompanied by your hunter. Live video tours are available if you live abroad: 30% of our clients are international.
An offer strategy calibrated on recorded prices, negotiation led in your name (6% average off the asking price), coordination of advisers and the notary through to completion. Fee of 2.5% incl. VAT (minimum €10,000 incl. VAT), 100% success-based.
Comparison
Averages observed across 1,200 completed searches in Paris since 2011.
Completed searches
Our hunter was remarkably available throughout the process. She understood our expectations from the very first meeting and presented properties perfectly matched to our brief. The negotiation was handled with finesse, securing a significant reduction on the asking price. Professional support from start to finish.
Within a week, our hunter had shortlisted five properties matching our criteria in the 16th and 17th arrondissements. We viewed on a Saturday morning and signed the preliminary contract the following Monday.
The reduction our hunter negotiated more than covered their fee. In the end, we saved €28,000 net on our purchase.
Frequently asked
Off-market refers to properties sold without a public listing, through the professional network. In the premium arrondissements of Paris (6th, 7th, 8th, 16th), 15 to 25% of transactions close this way. These discreet sales are only accessible to insiders: Home Select receives over 100 off-market properties per day through its 15,000 partners.
Your identity and your budget are never disclosed without your agreement. Prospecting is carried out in Home Select's name, files are shared with you alone, and viewings are arranged in private slots. Discretion works both ways: sellers of exceptional properties demand the same confidentiality.
Luxury apartments, noble-floor Haussmannian and reception flats, top floors with views or terraces, hôtels particuliers, properties of character (artists' studios, architect-designed lofts), and sought-after addresses on the Left Bank, in the Golden Triangle, in western Paris and in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The exact scope is set during the brief.
The same as for all our searches: 2.5% incl. VAT of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT, paid 100% on success on completion day at the notary. No retainer, no file fees. The average 6% reduction negotiated off the asking price more than offsets the fee.
Yes, 30% of our clients are expats or international buyers. The team works in French and English (as well as German, Spanish, Italian and Farsi depending on the hunter), with live video tours and remote completion by notarised power of attorney where needed.
Our average across all searches is 45 days. For a very rare brief (a specific address, an hôtel particulier, a particular view), the decisive variable is the depth of the network, not the listings: it is the network that surfaces opportunities, sometimes within days, sometimes over several months. We give you an honest reading of the rarity from the brief onwards.
We find for you
A dedicated senior hunter, an off-market network of 15,000 partners, absolute discretion. The first conversation is free and confidential.
Let's talk about your search
