A valuation starting from your building's period and your floor, a network of buyers already searching, and discretion whenever you want it.
The unity of Bordeaux stone, inherited from the requirements imposed on builders from the eighteenth century, produces an unexpected effect at sale: from outside, the buildings resemble one another, and buyers struggle to place what they are viewing. A floor in an ordered building, a converted chai and a nineteenth-century bourgeois apartment pass for equivalent when they are not. Establishing your building's period and documenting what it implies is therefore the first thing we do.
We establish the building's period, the year of its conversion where relevant, the exact ceiling height, the original features retained and the condition of the common areas. This whole, and not floor area, builds the valuation.
We follow buyers across the whole city, and many are looking for a period as much as a quarter. Your apartment is presented to them with what matters in their eyes, rather than with a list of areas.
Depending on the quarter and the building, a sale is more or less noticed. We adapt: presentation restricted to our circle of buyers, grouped viewings, or targeted advertising if you prefer it.
Surveys, building documents, viewings, notaire, completion: the same person follows your file from end to end and stays reachable at every stage.
The intact eighteenth century, for buyers seeking heights and enfilades.
The converted chais, for those wanting volumes no new build offers.
The buildings facing the park, for those seeking a settled outlook.
Residences set within gardens, for those wanting green space and parking.
You explain to the buyer why the windows are so tall, they look at the ceiling differently, and the viewing changes register.
A first visit with no commitment, at the hour when your apartment takes the light best. We record the building with as much care as the lot, then build the valuation.
Photographs conveying the heights and the light, a description that dates the building and places it within the city, and archive material where it exists. A buyer buys better what they can place.
Depending on period and quarter, we know which buyers are concerned, and we show your apartment only to them, once we have met them.
We carry your arguments through to the preliminary contract and then the notaire, with the full co-ownership file in hand from the outset.
No. In Bordeaux the same measurement can describe an eighteenth-century floor with tall ceilings or a far more recent flat: the period, the level and what has been retained make most of the value, not the area.
The fabric speaks for itself to a trained eye: the thickness of the walls, the drawing of the windows, the way the staircase turns. We complete this with the land registry and, where the building deserves it, the municipal archives.
Our answer depends on the building's period, and we give it at the first visit. With older fabric, what is seen counts less than what is understood: a buyer pays for heights and proportions, not for paintwork.
The statutory surveys, the co-ownership rules, recent general meeting minutes and the service charge notices. We contact the managing agent from our first meeting.
Agreed in advance, transparent, and due only once the sale is signed. The fee schedule is given to you at our first meeting.
One call is enough to arrange a first visit in Bordeaux. We come to you, with no commitment, and reply personally within 48 hours.
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