Tignes, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

SAVOIE, AUVERGNE-RHONE-ALPES

Tignes real estate.

Your dedicated buyer’s agent and renovation studio in the Haute-Tarentaise. We source the right apartment or chalet in Tignes, the high-altitude resort beside its glacier and its lake, negotiate on your side so you never overpay, then our Ynspir architects shape it into a mountain home that is yours, all handled in English.

Rémy PampinOlivier ClurRomain IselRémy, Olivier and Romain, the three founders behind your project
  • Independent buyer’s agent, paid by you and never by the seller
  • Our own architects for the renovation
  • Handled in English, from the first email to the keys
  • Two French firms, one team on the ground

What we source

Homes in Tignes, sourced, renovated and managed for U.S. buyers.

Who you work with

Our Team for your real estate project in Tignes.

One team, two French firms. Montclair advises and buys on your side of the table, Ynspir designs and runs the works. The same team follows your Tignes project from the first call to the finished home, and they answer in English.

Rémy Pampin, French Real Estate Experts

Rémy Pampin

Investment & Patrimonial Strategy

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Olivier Clur, French Real Estate Experts

Olivier Clur

Marketing & Acquisition Lead

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Romain Isel, French Real Estate Experts

Romain Isel

Head of Transactions & Network

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The numbers behind the move

Why Americans move to Tignes.

Four numbers buyers check before they commit, safety, population, price per square meter and healthcare, each with the French average beside it so Tignes can be read as it is.

Safety

Under 5home burglaries recorded in 2025: the ministry does not publish counts of 1 to 4

  • Theft without violence189 cases98.49 per 1,000
  • Assault outside the home16 cases8.34 per 1,000
  • Vehicle theftUnder 5cases, not published
  • Dwellings (INSEE)7,150

Population

1,919residents in the commune of Tignes, INSEE legal population

  • IntercommunalityHaute-Tarentaise
  • Rank in France5749thcommune
  • DépartementSavoie73
  • ProfileInternationalski resort, seasonal

Price per m²

€7,930for an apartment, city-wide average of the two portals

  • Apartment, SeLoger€7,891
  • Apartment, Meilleurs Agents€7,965
  • House, the two sources€7,396 to €7,570
  • Apartment, 10 years+42.2%

Healthcare

4 / 10our rating, not an official statistic

  • University hospitalNoCHU Grenoble, about 3h
  • Specialist coverageBasicmedical centres in Le Lac and Val Claret in season
  • English-speaking practiceAvailableresort doctors used to international patients
  • Nearest major hospitalBourg-Saint-MauriceCentre Hospitalier, about 45 min

Read the four columns together, and read them as counts. Tignes has 1,919 year-round residents and 7,150 dwellings, and hosts many times its own population in winter, so a rate per 1,000 residents means little here. Street theft, 189 cases recorded in 2025 and down 30% since 2016, and 16 assaults outside the home are counted across the resort’s villages in season, visitors included; burglary and vehicle theft are too few to appear in the published series. At around €7,890 per square meter for an apartment, the resort is priced as a serious ski address.

That is the Tignes equation: a snow-sure resort at 2,100 metres with a glacier above and a lake at its centre, very few troubles for an empty apartment, and a price that reflects the longest skiing in France, in exchange for a hospital forty-five minutes away. Which village, which residence and which floor is exactly the part we handle in person.

Sources: safety figures from the SSMSI, the statistics service of the French Ministry of the Interior (2025 data, published June 2026), identical to those in our Tignes safety guide. Population: INSEE legal population. Prices: SeLoger (January 2026) and Meilleurs Agents (1 October 2026). Rents: ANIL 2025. The healthcare figure is our own editorial rating out of 10, based on the presence of a university teaching hospital, the breadth of specialist cover and how easily English-speaking care is found; it is not a published statistic.

Why moving to France

A 300 m² farmhouse near Annecy renovated by our Ynspir studio

Why Tignes

Tignes Real Estate: Glacier Skiing Above a Mountain Lake

The typical buyer here skis hard and skis long: a family or an investor who wants the Grande Motte glacier above, the lake at the door and a season that stretches from autumn to spring. Tignes was rebuilt at altitude after the dam of the Chevril drowned the old village in the 1950s, and that modern origin shaped a resort of purpose-built villages linked to Val d’Isère in one of the great ski areas of the Alps. Buyers are British, Scandinavian, Dutch and increasingly American, alongside French owners from Lyon, Paris and Geneva who have skied here for decades. The economy is the resort: lifts, hotels, ski schools, property services and construction, with a professional seasonal workforce and a summer of glacier skiing, mountain biking and the lake that keeps a part of the village open.

The housing stock is apartments first, in residences that tell the resort’s age. Tignes Le Lac, the centre, holds the original 1960s and 1970s buildings around the lake and the shops, many renovated one by one. Val Claret, higher up under the glacier lifts, mixes large residences with newer chalet-style developments and the most direct ski-in access. Le Lavachet, beside Le Lac, is quieter and residential. Far below, Tignes 1800 and Les Brévières keep the old village feel, with stone houses, a church and chalets under the dam wall, and prices that belong to a village rather than a snow front. Daily life in season is ski boots on the balcony, the walk around the frozen lake and the bus between the villages.

How it works

How we run your Tignes real estate project.

One English-speaking team takes your Tignes project from the first search to the keys, and keeps running it long after. Montclair handles the advisory and the buying, Ynspir handles the renovation.

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Find

We leverage our local network to provide U.S. buyers with privileged access to on and off-market Tignes real estate, from ski-in apartments in Val Claret to chalets and village houses in Les Brévières, ensuring you see properties that align with your specific criteria.

02

Buy

As your trusted representative, we navigate the complexities of the French purchasing process on your behalf. From the ‘compromis de vente’ to the final ‘acte authentique,’ we manage all legal and administrative steps with precision and clarity.

03

Renovate

Our Montclair x Ynspir partnership brings together architectural vision and project management expertise. We oversee renovations of any scale, coordinating trusted local artisans and architects to create spaces of exceptional quality, delivered on time and on budget.

04

Manage

For investors or part-time residents, we offer a complete property management service. This includes tenant sourcing, rent collection, and ongoing maintenance, providing you with a seamless, passive ownership experience from abroad.

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Buyer’s agent

How our buyer’s agents find your next apartment or house in Tignes?

A buyer’s agent, chasseur immobilier in French, represents the buyer and only the buyer. In Tignes, where resale apartments pass through a few resort agencies and loyal owner networks before any portal, and where asking prices are set for buyers who sign at the end of a perfect week on the glacier, that independence is not a nicety; it is the difference between paying fair value and paying the seller’s optimism.

It begins with a search mandate. Rather than a form, we start with a long conversation: whether the home is for your own weeks or for a rental business, how many beds for how many skiers, the afternoon sun on the balcony, the walk to the lake or to the Val Claret lifts, the transfer from Bourg-Saint-Maurice station or from Geneva and Lyon airports, the weeks the property must earn to cover its charges, and the real budget once notaire fees and works are honestly accounted for. From that we write a precise brief and agree the perimeter, Le Lac, Val Claret, Le Lavachet, Tignes 1800 and Les Brévières, before a single property reaches your inbox.

Then the network goes to work. Our Montclair side activates its relationships across the Haute-Tarentaise: estate agents who tip trusted buyers first, notaires who quietly hold inventory, private sellers, and syndics who know which residences are about to come to market. Every candidate is cross-checked against the national DVF database of notarised sales, so we know the real value for the village and the residence, not the brochure price. You receive short, curated selections with our honest verdict, floor plans and video walk-throughs filmed on site. We view on your behalf and flag the deal-breakers, damp, a roof tired by snow loads, a punishing DPE rating, a copropriété in difficulty, an avalanche zone, before you book a flight.

Because our Ynspir architects sit at the same table, an apartment or chalet that needs work is assessed for renovation before you offer, with a realistic budget and the mountain rules, the PLU and the copropriété’s own regulations factored in. When you decide, we build the offer file, negotiate on results and handle the compromis de vente and the notaire in English. Found by Montclair, shaped by Ynspir, one mandate, your interest alone, from the first search to the finished home in Tignes.

What it costs to work with us

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Search mandate

Our buyer’s agent fee, calculated on the purchase price and paid on success only, when the deed is signed.

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Renovation project management

Ynspir runs the works end to end. The fee is calculated on the works budget and covers design, quotes, artisans and site supervision.

Starting rates. Your exact fee depends on the brief and on the scope of the works, and is agreed in writing before anything begins. No fee is due if we do not find your property.

Your point of contact

We handled everything for your Real Estate Project in Tignes

Buying in France from abroad is less about listings than about who stands on your side of the table. We are your independent buyer’s agent, paid on results and never by the seller, so every recommendation serves you alone. One English-speaking team runs the whole project on your time zone: Montclair finds and negotiates, Ynspir renovates, and we stay involved long after the keys. That single, accountable relationship, backed by real market data on every decision, is why American buyers trust us with their Tignes project rather than going it alone.

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The same room after renovation by our Ynspir studio
The room before renovation
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Drag the handle. A recent apartment renovation run end to end by our Ynspir architects.

Latest rent data · ANIL

What renters actually pay, by the square metre.

Tignes is covered by the national DVF registry, which records every notarised sale across the resort’s villages, apartment and chalet alike, with its median and quartiles. Advertised rents complete the picture as the clearest open indicator of value and yield in a market where most homes are let.

€13,6/m²/mo

Average apartment rent

Advertised rent, charges included (ANIL 2025)

1,919

Population

INSEE legal population

€9,799

Median apartment sale, 2025

Notarised sales, DVF

152

Verified sales

Apartments + houses, 2025 (DVF)

Areas

An Architect’s Guide: Tignes’s Key Neighbourhoods

Tignes is a string of villages at different altitudes, each with its own architectural character and relationship to the snow: the original centre of Le Lac, the glacier-side residences of Val Claret, the quiet streets of Le Lavachet, the old stone village of Les Brévières below the dam. The right address depends on how you ski and how you let. We provide the granular reading that matches you with the right residence, not just the right resort.

Streets of Tignes

Tignes Le Lac

The centre of the resort, around the lake, the shops and the main lift base. Apartments in the original residences, many now renovated, with everything on foot and the strongest rental demand. For buyers who want the heart of Tignes and a walk around the lake at the end of the day.

Val Claret

The highest village, under the glacier lifts, with large residences and the newest chalet-style developments. The most direct ski-in, ski-out access in the resort and the longest season. Chosen by serious skiers and investors who want modern finishes and the Grande Motte at the door.

Le Lavachet

Beside Le Lac but quieter, a residential sector of smaller residences and chalets with its own lifts and a short walk to the centre. A family address for owners who want the resort without sleeping above a bar, and often the more measured price for the same slopes.

Les Brévières and Tignes 1800

Far below the dam, Les Brévières is the old village with its church, stone houses and chalets among trees, linked by gondola to the ski area; Tignes 1800 sits between the two. Village prices, village life and renovation projects for buyers who want a home with roots rather than a resort studio.

Why buyers choose Tignes

Why Tignes for a Real Estate Project?

01

Skiing from Autumn to Spring

The Grande Motte glacier and an altitude of 2,100 metres give Tignes one of the longest seasons in France, which protects both your own skiing and the rental calendar. Snow certainty here is not a marketing line.


02

Linked to Val d’Isère

One lift pass covers Tignes and Val d’Isère, one of the great linked ski areas of the Alps, with terrain for every level and a glacier for summer. For a skier, few homes in France offer this much from a front door.


03

Empty Homes Rarely Troubled

A resort of 1,919 residents and 7,150 dwellings, professionally run in season and quiet out of it, where recorded offences are low and falling. An apartment closed between visits is as safe here as anywhere in the Alps.


04

A Readable Resort Market

150 apartment sales were notarised in 2025 at a median of 9,799 EUR per m², up from 8,833 EUR in 2024, and advertised apartment rents average 13.6 EUR per m² per month, charges included. The market is deep enough to buy and resell without waiting for luck.

On the ground

Getting to Tignes, and getting around.

Tignes sits in the Haute-Tarentaise valley of Savoie, close to the Italian border, above Bourg-Saint-Maurice and beside Val d’Isère. Bourg-Saint-Maurice station, about 45 minutes down the valley, has direct TGV services to Paris in winter and connections to Lyon and Geneva; Geneva Airport (GVA) and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS) are each roughly three hours by road via Albertville, Moûtiers and the D902 past the Chevril dam. Between the villages, free shuttles and gondolas replace the car in season.

See also: Savoie real estate · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region guide

Good to know

Tignes real estate, the questions buyers ask.

Can Americans buy property in Tignes?

Yes. There are no restrictions on foreign nationals, including U.S. citizens, buying property in France, and that applies to apartments and chalets in Tignes. Our service is built to carry an American buyer through the whole process, from search to notaire, in English.

How do I know the real sale price of an apartment in Tignes?

The commune is covered by the national DVF database, which publishes every notarised sale. We cross-check each candidate against it, village by village and residence by residence, so your offer is grounded in what neighbours actually paid rather than in an asking price set after a perfect week on the glacier.

What property taxes will I pay on a second home in Tignes?

Owners pay the annual taxe foncière, and a second home also carries the taxe d’habitation, which resort communes may increase. If you let the apartment, tourist tax and rental income rules apply as well. We give you a full breakdown, with copropriété charges, before you make an offer.

Can a U.S. buyer get financing for a property in Tignes?

A French mortgage is possible for non-residents but demanding on paperwork, and lenders look closely at resort property that is let. We work with financing partners used to American files and can also structure a cash purchase with a later refinancing.

Which Tignes village should I buy in?

Le Lac for the centre and the strongest letting, Val Claret for ski-in access and the glacier, Le Lavachet for a quieter family base, Les Brévières for village life and a lower price. We read the file against how you ski and how many weeks you let, not against the brochure.

What should I check in a 1960s or 1970s resort residence?

The copropriété’s accounts and the works voted or pending on the facade, roof and lifts, the DPE energy rating of older buildings at altitude, ski-room and parking rights, and the building’s own rules on letting. We review all of it on your behalf and our Ynspir architects price the renovation before you offer.

Are there avalanche or altitude rules for building in Tignes?

Yes. The commune’s risk plan maps avalanche zones, the mountain law limits new building outside the existing villages, and works must be timed around a short summer window when roads and trades are available. We factor all of it into the budget and the calendar before you commit.

Start your Tignes real estate search with us.

Begin your journey with French Real Estate Experts. Let us navigate the nuances of the Tignes market to find and craft your ideal mountain home beside the glacier. Contact our team today for a private consultation.