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Shortlist

France has no single national property database, so your listings come from five different sources. This is where you bring them together. Put every house you come across on one line, and within a few weeks you see what no single site shows you: what stays unsold, where prices drop, and what a realistic price per square metre is in your commune.

Quicker: in the Search Helper you can paste the text of a listing (asking price, sqm, bedrooms, energy rating) and it fills in the details and adds the house to this list for you.

Add a property

Commune (town)

Département

Source

Link to the listing

Asking price (€)

Agency fee included

Living area (m²)

Plot (m²)

Bedrooms

DPE (energy rating)

Taxe foncière (€ per year)

Condition

Status

Note

Tip: always note whether the agency fee is included in the asking price (in French listings FAI or honoraires inclus). Without that column you compare apples with pears, because private sales on PAP.fr carry no agency fee.

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The five sources to search

Portals. Leboncoin (largest volume), SeLoger and Bien’ici (best map view).

Private sellers. PAP.fr, private sellers only, so no agency fee in the price.

Notaires. immobilier.notaires.fr and immonot. Especially in Normandy, Brittany and the north the notaire sells houses directly, and those listings often appear nowhere else.

Local. Search for immobilier plus the town name and open the agencies’ own websites. New listings often appear there days earlier.

English-language. Green-Acres, Properstar and UK-based portals for overseas property. Comfortable, but a selection of a selection.

Set up a saved search with an alert on each source, by commune with a radius and not by département. And before you make an offer: the French government’s DVF sales data shows what was actually paid in that street over the past five years. An asking price is an opinion; that is a fact.

The full story is in There is no French Rightmove.

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