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The only property professional who works for the tenant or the buyer — not the owner or the seller. They search, visit, negotiate and secure the application on your behalf.
A professional mandated by the buyer or tenant to find a property matching a precise brief. They work under a search mandate, explore the whole market — agencies, private listings, portals — visit, assess, negotiate and support you through to signing.
Not to be confused with the estate agent, who holds sale or rental mandates and defends the owner's interests.
Home finder or estate agent?
The same regulated profession — but not the same side. That explains everything else: access to properties, negotiation, fees.
Mandated by the one searching
Mandated by the one selling or letting
In France, both fall under the Hoguet law and hold a professional “Transactions” licence. Abroad, the status varies by country.
What do they actually do?
Six missions, from the first brief to key handover.
They scope your search
Real budget, viable neighbourhoods, size, life constraints. The brief is written before the first listing — that's what saves three months of pointless viewings.
They comb the whole market
Portals, local agencies, private listings: they watch them all closely. A good home finder lives off their network: they see properties as soon as they go online and act fast.
They visit for you
Filmed viewings, an honest report, walks through the neighbourhood at different hours. You no longer need to travel: your home finder does it all for you remotely.
They assess and negotiate
Price per m² in the neighbourhood, time on market, works to plan for. Hard numbers to negotiate with — on your side, this time.
They secure the application
Locally required documents, guarantor, translation, review of the lease or purchase agreement. This is where foreign applications most often fall apart.
They stay with you until you're settled in
Inventory, key handover, utilities set-up, first admin steps. Your home finder doesn't disappear once the contract is signed: they remain a valuable contact for any questions about life on the ground.
How a search unfolds
Four steps. Nothing is billed before the mandate is signed.
We get acquainted
A 30-minute video call to scope the project and check it's realistic.
The search mandate
Brief, fees and duration in writing before anything starts.
The search
Sourcing across the whole market, filmed viewings, honest feedback on every property.
Signing the contract
Help building your application, support for your candidacy, review and translation of the contract.
What does a home finder cost?
At Remoters there is no set rate: each home finder states their price in a written proposal, which you approve before any commitment.
All inclusive: no platform fee is added to the price quoted by the home finder.
The amount depends on the destination and the complexity of the search. Some cases fall outside this range.
If the search does not succeed, the home finder's quote sets out what happens: read it before you accept.
Between our cheapest and most expensive destinations, a 50 m² flat rents from €150 to over €4,000 a month. Each home finder therefore sets their terms for their market and presents them before any commitment. In practice, the negotiation obtained and the traps avoided often offset a good part of the fee.
Introduction, first call and tailored quote: free and with no commitment. Remoters holds the payment until the service has been delivered.
When it's really worth it
Not essential everywhere — decisive in these situations.
You're searching from afar
You can't chain viewings from another country. Someone has to go for you.
The market is tight
When a property goes in 48 hours, only a professional already wired into the local network keeps pace.
You don't know the city
Two streets apart changes everything: noise, safety, transport, resale. You can't read that in a listing.
You're investing
Real yield, local tax, rental demand: selection matters more than falling in love.
You're going to study
Student applications, foreign guarantors, flatshares: the rules differ in every country.
Your company is relocating you
Short deadlines, a set budget, a fixed arrival date. The search can't slip.
A French-speaking home finder, based on the ground
Every home finder in the network lives in the city where they search for you, and goes through two interviews, then a trial period, before joining the network.
“Manue found us the rare gem in record time, despite a complex file. She handled every exchange with the agency end to end and reviewed the contracts with us.”
Frequently asked questions
In France, yes. It falls under the Hoguet law: the professional must hold a “Transactions” professional licence, carry professional liability insurance and work under a written mandate.
Abroad, the framework varies widely from country to country. That's exactly why we vet every home finder before listing them.
It's the contract binding the home finder to their client. It sets out the brief, the assignment's duration, the fee and when it is due — usually at signing.
No written mandate, no assignment: it's the document that protects you as much as it commits them.
There are three families of listings: agency listings, private listings, and listings scattered across local or specialist sites. On your own, you reach roughly the first two.
A home finder covers all three and checks every property before showing it to you. Their main edge is speed: through their network of agencies and owners, they move as soon as a listing appears.
They are two separate fees: agency fees pay the seller's or landlord's professional, search fees pay yours.
The split varies by property and country. Your home finder lays out the full cost structure before you commit.
Look at how long they've covered the destination, their grasp of the local legal framework, and their ability to tell you no when a property doesn't fit. A home finder who approves everything isn't one.
At Remoters, every home finder goes through two interviews, then a trial period, before joining the network, and is only listed on a destination where they actually live.
On the Remoters network, most rental searches succeed in under four weeks. A purchase takes longer, between selection, viewings and financing.
The deciding factor remains how tight the local market is and how precise the initial brief was.
Describe your project, we'll match you
A French-speaking home finder in your destination gets back to you within 24 hours. Free conversation and quote, no commitment.
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