Place Longchamp, rue Ducau, cours de Verdun, place du Champ-de-Mars. We search on your behalf, off-market included, from first conversation to completion.
In 1746 the intendant Tourny had a garden laid out on old vineyards at the edge of the city. To reach it, new streets were cut through — cours de Verdun, rue David Johnston, place du Champ-de-Mars — and immediately lined with new plots. It is the reverse of what happens almost everywhere: the park precedes the quarter, and the houses were built looking at it. Hence aligned frontages, eighteenth-century proportions held from one street to the next, and a scale of value measured in gateways from the railings.
The eighteenth-century ordering still holds. Town houses in pale stone, aligned and regular, usually over a cellar and around a courtyard. A few private mansions between court and garden, rarer. And the nineteenth-century bourgeois buildings that completed the alignments without breaking them.
This is the local unit of measure. A house two gateways from the wrought-iron railings does not compare with the same house three streets away. We systematically establish the real walk to the park entrances, because it shapes daily life and much of the value.
Behind these regular frontages hide paved courtyards, town gardens and sometimes outbuildings the street gives no hint of. Two neighbouring houses with identical façades can offer entirely different spaces behind.
Bordeaux residents wanting the park at the end of the street and the centre on foot. Families recently arrived in the metropolis, drawn by a quarter that has kept its coherence. Buyers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine seeking a city-centre address. And admirers of eighteenth-century building, drawn by one particular façade.
The addresses running along the listed railings, the most sought after in the sector.
One of the streets cut through to serve the garden, its eighteenth-century alignments intact.
Down towards the river, more commercial building and longer plots.
The historic heart ten minutes away, with the allées de Tourny as its continuation.
A Sunday in May, you push open the wrought-iron gate two hundred metres from your door, and the children are already running towards the water before you have closed it behind them.
The frontage onto the park or the sheltered courtyard, period proportions or renewed comfort, neighbourhood life or the centre on foot. By the Jardin Public these choices lead to particular streets, and we settle them before searching.
The sector holds few houses and they change hands rarely. Notaires, managing agents and local owners keep us informed early, often long before any listing is considered.
We visit, we record the condition of the period fabric, the depth of the courtyard, the orientation of the reception rooms and what the plot allows. You view only the houses that live up to their description.
Through to completion, alongside your notaire. We negotiate for you, and for you alone — never for the seller.
No. By the Jardin Public, two houses with similar façades may have one a forty-square-metre paved courtyard, the other a town garden with an outbuilding. The real distance to the park gates and what the house keeps behind it weigh far more than the measurement.
Few, and that is what makes their value. The quarter was laid out in the eighteenth century around the park and its perimeter has not moved since. Houses here are sought after and often pass on without ever being listed.
It mainly needs to be read well. We check the quality of the stone, the successive interventions and what the heritage framework allows, so you know precisely what you are acquiring and what you will be able to do with it.
Yes, and here it is almost the rule. The number of houses is limited, owners know one another, and a transfer is often prepared months in advance within a small circle.
Agreed in advance and transparent. For a search mandate they fall due only on acquisition. The detail is set out at our first meeting.
One call is enough to frame your search by the Jardin Public. We reply personally within 48 hours, in complete confidence.
07 86 71 33 13The Jardin Public is one of the quarters we work in across Bordeaux. We cover many others, and we hold a certain idea of what this profession should be, better told elsewhere than on this page.
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