Living on the Côte d’Azur
Not a shelf of listings — a family who moved here first, and now spend their days helping others work out what their own version of this coast could look like.
Most Riviera agencies will show you what they have to sell. We start from a different question — where, on this coast, could your life actually feel like it belongs.
It’s the difference the company’s own name has quietly pointed at since 2006. The Riviera is wide enough to hold a working harbour in Saint-Tropez, a city that never stops for the season in Nice, and a wooded, guarded peninsula at Cap Ferrat — and the right part of it for you may not be the postcard you already have in mind.
The Riviera isn’t one postcard
We don’t sell our own listings. That’s rather the point.
We search across a network of local agents and developers on your behalf, rather than showing you only what one firm happens to hold.
The selling agent shares their commission with us in the standard case, which keeps the search free to you without narrowing what you’re shown.
Twenty years of relationships across the coast mean off-market introductions, not just what’s already public.
A two-generation family business, still doing the viewings themselves
Ab Kuijer
Founder, Buyer Advisor
Ab moved from Amsterdam to the Côte d'Azur in 2006, after a career as a journalist and radio and television producer. He founded Living on the Côte d'Azur the same year, and was later elected the first Dutch president of the British Chamber of Commerce on the French Riviera — since rebranded the Riviera Business Club. Twenty years on, he still takes clients through the search himself.
Jolanda Kuijer-Marinus
Owner, Buyer Advisor
Jolanda has lived in the South of France since 2006, having previously worked in the region's luxury yachting and hotel industry. She leads the interior design and styling side of the business, and is closely connected to design houses across Italy and Scandinavia — the person clients turn to once a property search becomes a home.
Feline Kuijer
Consultant, Ibiza & Portugal
Ab and Jolanda's daughter, and the second generation of the family business. Feline manages the Ibiza and Portugal side of the network, and brings a native fluency in how buyers now search — digitally, quickly, and from anywhere. She still prefers to make her own local visits in Nice.
What’s currently on our radar
What it’s actually like to work with us
Great experience. Abé takes away the complexity of buying a property on the Côte D'Azur, guiding you through the process from start to finish with a helpful, friendly and knowledgable approach.
Ab en Jolanda have helped us very well with the search for our holiday home in the Côte d'Azur. More than full service, always friendly, very quick answers to our questions, also in the weekends or evenings.
Absolutely first class from beginning to end. Jo helped me with everything. Attentiveness and kindness almost beyond the call of duty.
Verified, publicly published reviews via Feedback Company — 9.9/10 from 24 English-language reviews, 9.4/10 from 19 Dutch-language reviews.
Tell us what you're looking for
No search mandate, no obligation — just a conversation about what living on the Côte d'Azur would need to look like for you.