A bedroom window opening onto the valley, with a telescope in the foreground

The agency

A boutique property advisory in Mougins, working with French and international clients since 2010.

A deliberately small practice

Forsman & Hey was founded in 2010 by Susanne Hey, who has held her professional licence since that date. The agency is based in Mougins, above Cannes, and works with French and international clients across the area.

We have chosen to remain a small practice. It allows us to handle every file personally, and to decline instructions we could not give the attention they deserve.

Buying or selling on the French Riviera is often a major decision, taken from a distance, within an unfamiliar legal framework. Our first role is to make that framework legible: to explain before proposing anything, and to give each stage the time it needs.

We favour a long-term relationship of trust over transaction volume. Sometimes that means advising against a purchase, or recommending that you wait: advice that earns nothing in the short term, but on which everything else rests.

The Forsman & Hey team side by side, holding the presentation brochure

Where we work

Antibes
Auribeau-sur-Siagne
Biot
Cabris
Cagnes-sur-Mer
Cannes
Caussols
Courmes
Gourdon
Grasse
La Colle-sur-Loup
La Gaude
Le Rouret
Mandelieu-la-Napoule
Mougins
Opio
Pégomas
Peymeinade
Roquefort-les-Pins
Saint-Jeannet
Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey
Théoule-sur-Mer
Valbonne
Vallauris
Vence

The team

Two people, and one file at a time given the same attention.

Founder

Susanne Hey

Before working in property, I spent close to ten years in consulting and international business, working with clients across Europe and the United States in technology and business services.

I obtained my French professional licence in 2010 and have applied the same approach to property ever since: taking the time to understand what my clients need, giving them the information that matters, and supporting their decisions without undue pressure.

I work with French and international clients, and speak French, English, Danish and German fluently. My role is to offer clear, rigorous and personal support to those buying or selling on the French Riviera.

Client manager

Marie Barresi

With more than fifteen years in client relations, I am the anchor point for our clients at Forsman & Hey. My role is primarily administrative, but it is deeply human.

I enjoy building trust with our clients and partners, and making sure every stage runs smoothly and calmly.

I support our buyers in finding properties that match what they are looking for, then through their acquisition file. For our sellers, I prepare the sale file and accompany them throughout the process, up to final signature.

By phone or by email, I am always glad to hear from you, promptly and with care.

Our approach

A different kind of real estate experience.

We believe that buying or selling a property is about much more than a transaction. It is about having the right people on your side.

01
Local expertise
Deep knowledge of the market, properties, neighbourhoods, regulations and people behind the transactions.
02
International perspective
An understanding of different cultures, expectations and ways of doing business, and access to an international network of buyers and sellers.
03
Client first
Independent, honest advice and a relationship based on trust, even when that means putting the client's interests ahead of our own immediate commercial gain.

Our approach is personal by design. We don't aim to be the biggest agency. We aim to be the agency our clients trust, recommend and come back to.

A network of nearly 500 agencies

As an active member of MLS Côte d'Azur, an inter-agency association bringing together close to 500 professionals across the département, we give our sellers maximum exposure to buyers throughout the Alpes-Maritimes.

Our buyers benefit just as much: the same cooperation lets us find the right property through precise searching and filtered shortlists, without them having to deal with multiple agents.

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Our professional credentials

As a FNAIM member, the agency is bound by a code of conduct and continuing professional development requirements, and holds professional civil liability insurance together with a financial guarantee covering funds held.