Nice
Alpes-Maritimes
Nice doesn't run on a season. As the fifth-largest city in France and the functional capital of the Côte d'Azur, it has an airport, a university, hospitals and a UNESCO-listed old town that all operate in January the same way they do in August. Buyers here are choosing a city, in the ordinary sense of the word — a neighbourhood, a commute, a school catchment — inside one of the most beautiful settings in Europe.
A city that stands on its own
Nice doesn't orbit Cannes or Monaco the way smaller towns along the coast do. It has its own airport — the second busiest in France outside Paris — its own economy, and a Belle Époque and Roman history layered into a genuinely lived-in urban centre.
From the Baie des Anges to the hills
The property market ranges from compact apartments near the promenade to villas in the elevated quarters above the port, with sea views that cost noticeably less here than they do a few kilometres east toward Monaco — a fact that shapes a great deal of the enquiries we field.
A base for the rest of the coast
Nice's connectivity — the airport, the trains, the proximity to Monaco, Cannes and the hill villages — also makes it the practical anchor for clients whose life on the Riviera will genuinely move around the region, not stay in one postcard town.
Considering Nice?
We'll tell you honestly whether it fits what you're actually looking for — including if it doesn't.