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The Paris rental market is one of the tightest in Europe. On average, 20 applications are submitted per viewing, and the best flats go within hours. Since 2011, Home Select has played on speed, the quality of your application and a network of 120 partner agencies. Home Select gets a lease signed in two to four weeks.
Your search
Renting in Paris is not a search: it is a competition. Viewing, solid application, signed within 24 hours. Your hunter takes over the race for you: pre-selecting properties, building your file to the standard landlords expect, and getting the lease signed before you have time to second-guess yourself.
Every property that matches your brief is analysed within two hours of going live. Your hunter books the viewing straight away and prepares your application in parallel. On the Paris rental market, time is the single most important factor.
Home Select hears about a great many properties from its network of letting agencies and managing agents before they go on the open market. For rentals, that early access is often the difference between signing the lease and watching the flat go to someone else.
Your hunter builds your application file to the standard Paris landlords expect: net income, guarantees, supporting documents, covering letter. Out of 20 applications submitted, the one that reads best wins.
Two to four weeks Average time between signing the mandate and signing your lease.
The Home Select method
Four steps to sign a Paris lease in under a month.
A meeting by video or in Home Select's office to agree on the arrondissements, budget, brief and move-in date, and to build your rental application: income, guarantors, supporting documents. Mandate signed.
Your hunter works the public portals, Home Select's 120-agency network and private listings in parallel. Every match is analysed within two hours. You receive a daily shortlist.
Serious leads are grouped into viewings on the same day. For any flat that suits you, your file is submitted on the spot with a covering letter, and your hunter argues your case directly with the managing agent. A real example: a two-room signed in 10 days in the 9th, against 35 competing applications.
Your hunter reviews the lease (clauses, deposit, fees) and stands alongside you at signing and at the move-in inventory. You take the keys with peace of mind, with no hidden clauses and no procedural slip.
Where it is won
In Paris a good rental receives dozens of applications within hours. It is almost never the budget that loses the flat: it is the delay and the file.
What loses the flat
What your hunter does
Your file
A complete file on the day of the viewing beats a perfect file two days later. Here is what Paris managing agents ask for, from you and from your guarantor.
You
Your guarantor
Special cases
Documents issued abroad are expected with a translation. A single PDF named after you goes down far better than a set of separate files.
Home Select packages
The method, the network and the work on your application file are identical in both packages. The only difference is the viewings: either you attend them yourself, or your hunter attends them on your behalf.
Fees are the same in both packages: one month's rent excluding charges plus 20% VAT, with a minimum of €2,000 incl. VAT. On a rent of €3,000 excluding charges, fees come to €3,600 incl. VAT. See Home Select's fees in full.
They rented with Home Select
Stéphane listened to our needs and helped us put together an application that got us the apartment we wanted, fast. All of it within a week! Thank you!
I am very satisfied with Home Select's services. My rental request was extremely complicated (a flat-share) and urgent, but Home Select was able to meet my request on time. Very pleasant dealings, availability and efficiency.
We warmly recommend Home Select and the entire Home Select team. We used their services when looking for a rental in 2018: mission more than accomplished, as they found us a lovely house in Paris, slightly outside our initial criteria, but Home Select had understood our expectations perfectly. We did not hesitate to turn to them again in 2020, when we wanted to buy, which was once again achieved thanks to them. We particularly appreciated their availability, their responsiveness and their people skills; they supported us right up to the signing (and even beyond), which was not easy with the lockdown. They also patiently bore with our hesitations and changes of mind. We are now well settled, but we will certainly recommend Home Select to those around us.
Frequently asked
Home Select, a property hunter in Paris, charges one month's rent excluding charges, plus 20% VAT, with a minimum of €2,000 incl. VAT. On a rent of €3,000 excluding charges, that comes to €3,600 incl. VAT. There is no application fee and nothing to pay upfront: you pay only once the lease is signed, and only on a property Home Select introduced to you.
Both packages cover the same work: reviewing your tenant application, refining your brief, analysing the rental market, sending you confirmed viewings that match your brief, championing your application with the agencies, supporting you through to the move-in inventory and attending it with you. The only difference is the viewings: with SELECT (non-exclusive mandate) you attend them yourself, while with PREMIUM (exclusive mandate) your hunter attends on your behalf. The fee is the same either way.
The Paris standard: your last three payslips, employment contract (ideally a confirmed permanent one), last two tax notices, last three rent receipts or a residence certificate, ID and bank details. If your income is below three times the rent, a personal guarantor or the free Visale guarantee is essential.
Yes; they account for a significant share of Home Select's rental clients. Home Select knows how to build a file that Paris landlords will accept even when your income is paid in a foreign currency or you are about to start your first job in France. Depending on your profile, the file relies on Visale, a bank guarantee or a professional guarantor.
Home Select takes two to four weeks on average between the signing of its mandate and the signing of your lease. In peak season (June, July, September) it can stretch to four or six weeks. Out of season (November to February), 10 to 15 days is achievable.
Yes. Electronic signatures are now standard with most Paris letting agencies and managing agents. A friend, a family member or, on specific request, your hunter, can collect the keys and carry out the move-in inventory on your behalf.
Yes. Home Select, a property hunter in Paris, supports tenants on mobility leases (one to 10 months, for interns, doctoral students and short professional assignments), shared lettings (single lease or individual leases with a joint-liability clause) and standard furnished lettings. The paperwork differs, but Home Select's method stays the same.
Home Select finds for you
Two to four weeks, 120 partner agencies, a polished application. Your hunter plays for speed on your behalf.
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