Between the course laid out by Tom Simpson, the Pignada pine forest and the ocean. Villas from the Roaring Twenties and contemporary architect-designed houses — we guide buyers and sellers with equal rigour.
Chiberta did not grow gradually — it was designed. In 1924 a company acquired one hundred and fifty hectares of dunes and pines between Anglet and the ocean. Three years later the British architect Tom Simpson laid out a golf course there for the Duke of Windsor, reportedly briefed to build the finest in the world. The villas followed, scattered beneath the pines. That origin explains everything found there today: wide plots, trees everywhere, and a density that has never risen.
Three periods coexist. The 1920s and 1930s villas, néo-basque or Art déco, inherited from the Roaring Twenties resort era. Post-war houses, most since remodelled. And contemporary architect-designed homes opening due south onto the garden. Each is negotiated on its own terms.
This is Chiberta's true scarcity. Wide plots planted with maritime pines, the house set back from the road. Orientation matters more here than elsewhere: the tree cover is dense, and two neighbouring plots do not receive the same light.
Chiberta is one of the last stretches of this coast where you live between golf course, forest and ocean. The perimeter is closed — neither the course nor the pine forest will release land. Properties change hands rarely, and often without any listing.
Families seeking space without leaving the coast. Buyers drawn by the golf course and the beaches. And a growing international clientele: Biarritz airport and the station are minutes away.
The course mixes links and in-land: the opening holes run along the ocean, the closing ones disappear beneath the pines. Around it sit the lake, the riding club, the tennis courts, and the Pignada forest reaching north towards the mouth of the Adour. Les Cavaliers beach borders the sector to the north — internationally rated waves that regularly host professional competitions, amplified by an offshore trough. It is this combination — sporting, wooded, coastal — that holds the area's value, far more than any distance to the town centre: here the day is set by the practice ground, the pines and the tide. We search here by real proximity to those landmarks, not by postal address.
In the morning you cross the pines to reach the practice ground; in the evening the scent of them still hangs in the garden.
Precise location, orientation, volume, garden, timing. In Chiberta the gap between two addresses often lies in what no listing mentions.
We draw on our network of owners, notaires and introducers. A significant share of transactions here is settled without ever being advertised.
We visit, check true orientation, structural condition, easements and extension potential. You travel only for what deserves it.
Through to completion. And if you are selling, we build the valuation on your property's own characteristics — never on a neighbourhood average.
Because no prestige property comes down to an average. Two neighbouring houses on plots of identical size are not worth the same if one faces south and the other sits in the shade of the pines. We assess exact location, orientation, plot, features and scarcity — a bespoke valuation, never a price grid.
Because the area cannot be read from a listing. Tree cover, plot orientation and real walking distance to the course or the beach shift the value from one address to the next. Those differences are ones we know.
Yes, and it is decisive here. Chiberta properties change hands rarely, and many pass on without ever being advertised. Our local network tells us in advance.
It depends on your criteria. The perimeter is small and supply limited: being told early matters more than searching fast. We give you a realistic timeframe from the first conversation, even when it is not the one you hoped for.
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 project in Chiberta, whether buying or selling. We reply personally within 48 hours, in complete confidence.
07 86 71 33 13Chiberta is one of the addresses we work in. We cover many others across the Pays Basque, and we hold a certain idea of what this profession should be, better told elsewhere than on this page.
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