Selling your property
A reasoned valuation, exposure across close to 500 agencies, support through to completion: Scandinavian rigour applied to your sale.
Valuation comes first
A sound valuation rests on comparable transactions that actually completed, not on the asking prices of competing listings. We show you the evidence behind our analysis, and we stand behind it.
We do not overvalue a property to win an instruction. An inflated price wastes the first weeks on the market, those when interest is strongest, and almost always ends in a lower sale price after successive reductions.
What we handle
- 01
The sale file
Full preparation of the file: mandatory surveys, co-ownership documents, title deeds, floor plans. Marie Barresi oversees this.
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Going to market
Advice on presenting the property, professional photography, bilingual copywriting, distribution across portals and the MLS network. A feng shui assessment on request.
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Viewings
We qualify buyers before any viewing, and report back to you after each one, without softening it.
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Negotiation
We pass on every offer with our analysis, and advise you without pressing you to accept, or to refuse.
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Through to completion
Coordination with the notaire, tracking of conditions precedent, and support through to final signature and handover.
Request a valuation
We reply within two working days, with an initial evidence-based range.
MLS Côte d'Azur, explained for sellers
You keep a single point of contact while benefiting from the reach of a large network. Your property is presented to many partner agencies while retaining consistent messaging, a single price and personal follow-up.
You get the advantages of an exclusive mandate together with the reach of wide distribution.
A single point of contact
You entrust the property to one agency, and you deal with one person. Nothing to explain twice, no stream of approaches to sort: the relationship rests on trust and a shared objective.
The widest pool of buyers
A sole mandate opens the MLS register to you, and with it a large pool of buyers already identified. It is a database kept current, built to target the right profiles rather than to cast about.
Wide exposure
Your property is shown to every agency in the network, more than 2,500 agents in the field. It is the largest professional marketplace on the French Riviera, and the widest exposure a property can be given.
Shorter timescales
More qualified buyers in front of the same property means timescales that tighten of their own accord. The shared register saves time at every stage, from first viewing to offer.
Frequently asked questions
Sole agency or multiple agency: what difference does it make?
A multiple mandate lets you instruct several agencies; a sole mandate entrusts the property to us alone, for a fixed period. On this market, exclusivity mainly protects the seller: a property listed at several prices, or under several adverts, loses credibility with buyers very quickly. And because we share sole mandates with the agencies of the MLS Côte d'Azur, exclusivity does not narrow exposure, it organises it.
Which surveys are required, and when?
The full technical survey pack must be ready when the preliminary contract is signed, but the energy performance certificate is required as soon as the property is advertised: its rating has to appear in the listing. Depending on the age, location and nature of the property, asbestos, lead, electrics, gas, a risks statement, the Carrez measurement for flats and the drainage report are added. We arrange the surveyor in advance so the launch is not held up.
Should you carry out works before selling?
Rarely major works: they are seldom recovered in the price. Anything that counts as making good, though, almost always pays for itself, because it removes grounds for negotiation: tired paintwork, seals, lighting, the garden. We will tell you plainly what is worth doing and what is not, including when the answer is nothing.
Does a non-resident seller pay capital gains tax in France?
Yes, the gain on a French property is taxable in France whatever the seller's country of residence. Allowances for length of ownership apply and lead to full exemption after a certain number of years. Non-resident sellers must, in some cases, also appoint an accredited tax representative. The notaire calculates the amount due before completion, and we point you to an adviser where the situation calls for it.
Can you sell without being in France?
Yes. Remote completion is routine: either through a power of attorney given to a clerk at the notaire's office, or by remote electronic signature before the notaire. We also handle viewings, surveys and any works in your absence: it is an ordinary part of our work with owners based abroad.