Courchevel, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

SAVOIE, AUVERGNE-RHONE-ALPES

Courchevel real estate.

Your dedicated buyer’s agent and renovation studio in the Trois Vallées. We source the right apartment or chalet in Courchevel, from the valley villages to 1850, 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 Courchevel, sourced, renovated and managed for U.S. buyers.

Who you work with

Our Team for your real estate project in Courchevel.

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 Courchevel 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 Courchevel.

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

Safety

2.04home burglaries per 1,000 dwellings, against 5.63 nationally

  • Theft without violence175 cases76.42 per 1,000
  • Assault outside the home12 cases5.24 per 1,000
  • Vehicle theftUnder 5cases, not published
  • Dwellings (INSEE)7,832

Population

2,290residents in the commune of Courchevel, INSEE legal population

  • IntercommunalityVal Vanoise
  • Rank in France4874thcommune
  • DépartementSavoie73
  • ProfileInternationalluxury resort, seasonal

Price per m²

€12,540for an apartment, city-wide average of the two portals

  • Apartment, SeLoger€12,585
  • Apartment, Meilleurs Agents€12,491
  • House, the two sources€21,170 to €21,263
  • Apartment, 10 years+42.2%

Healthcare

5 / 10our rating, not an official statistic

  • University hospitalNoCHU Grenoble, about 2h
  • Specialist coverageBasicresort medical centres in season
  • English-speaking practiceAvailableresort doctors used to international patients
  • Nearest major hospitalMoûtiers and AlbertvilleCentre Hospitalier Albertville-Moûtiers, about 40 min

Read the four columns together, and read them as counts. The commune has 2,290 year-round residents and 7,832 dwellings, so the figures describe a resort hosting many times its own population in winter, visitors included. Home burglaries, 16 recorded in 2025, or 2.04 per 1,000 homes against a French average of 5.63, are the owner’s figure and they are low. Street theft, 175 cases and down 15% since 2016, and 12 assaults outside the home are counted in season around 1850. At around €12,590 per square meter for an apartment, this is one of the most expensive addresses in France.

That is the Courchevel equation: a very safe, very expensive, professionally run resort where price depends on altitude, slope access and the building, far more than on the commune name. Which village, which residence and which side of the piste 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 Courchevel 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 Courchevel

Courchevel Real Estate: Five Villages, One Legendary Ski Area

The typical buyer here already knows the Trois Vallées and is choosing an address rather than discovering a resort. Courchevel is a single commune of several villages staggered up the mountain: Saint-Bon and La Perrière in the valley, Le Praz at the foot of the forest, Courchevel Village, Moriond and, at the top, 1850, where the palaces, the altiport and the most celebrated chalets sit. Buyers are international families, British, Belgian, Swiss and increasingly American, alongside French owners from Lyon and Paris who have skied here for generations. The economy is the resort: lifts, hotels, restaurants, property services and construction, with a professional seasonal workforce from December to April and a growing summer of hiking, cycling and the altiport air show.

The housing stock changes with the altitude. In Saint-Bon and La Perrière, old Savoyard farmhouses and village houses sit among year-round residents, at prices that belong to a valley rather than a resort. Le Praz keeps its old village around the church and its Olympic ski jumps, with chalets and small residences. Courchevel Village and Moriond offer the widest choice of apartments, from 1960s residences being renovated one by one to new ski-in developments. At 1850, the chalets of the Jardin Alpin, Bellecôte and Nogentil stand among the palaces, with apartments in the centre around the Croisette. Daily life in season is the walk to the lifts, the market at Moriond, the ice rink and the forest paths between the villages.

How it works

How we run your Courchevel real estate project.

One English-speaking team takes your Courchevel 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 Courchevel real estate, from renovated apartments in Moriond and Village to chalets in the hamlets of Le Praz and 1850, ensuring you see properties that align with your specific criteria.

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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.

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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.

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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 Courchevel?

A buyer’s agent, chasseur immobilier in French, represents the buyer and only the buyer. In Courchevel, where the best chalets and apartments are placed quietly with a handful of agencies and private networks before any portal, and where asking prices are set for buyers who arrive by helicopter, 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 ski weeks or for a long season, how many beds and ski lockers, the afternoon sun on the terrace, the walk to the Croisette lifts or to the market at Moriond, the drive to Moûtiers station or the transfer from Geneva or Lyon airport, the rental weeks that must cover the running costs, and the real budget once notaire fees and works are honestly accounted for. From that we write a precise brief and agree the perimeter, 1850, Moriond, Courchevel Village, Le Praz and the valley villages of Saint-Bon and La Perrière, before a single property reaches your inbox.

Then the network goes to work. Our Montclair side activates its relationships across the 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 altitude, 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, a plot in 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 resort’s architectural charter 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 Courchevel.

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 Courchevel

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 Courchevel 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.

Courchevel is covered by the national DVF registry, which records every notarised sale across the commune’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 resort market.

€14,5/m²/mo

Average apartment rent

Advertised rent, charges included (ANIL 2025)

2,290

Population

INSEE legal population

€11,811

Median apartment sale, 2025

Notarised sales, DVF

130

Verified sales

Apartments + houses, 2025 (DVF)

Areas

An Architect’s Guide: Courchevel’s Key Neighbourhoods

Courchevel is not one resort but a ladder of villages, each with its own architectural character, altitude and price logic: the Savoyard valley of Saint-Bon, the old village of Le Praz, the apartment residences of Village and Moriond, the chalets and palaces of 1850. The right address depends on how you ski and how you spend the money. We provide the granular reading that matches you with the right village and the right side of the piste.

Streets of Courchevel

Courchevel 1850

The summit of the resort and of its prices: the Croisette and its lifts, the palaces, the altiport, and the chalet hamlets of the Jardin Alpin, Bellecôte and Nogentil. Ski-in chalets and renovated apartments for buyers who want the most famous address in the Alps and the service that comes with it.

Courchevel Moriond

The sunny eastern village, once 1650, with its own lift base, a market and a family atmosphere. The widest stock of apartments in the commune, from older residences ripe for renovation to new ski-in developments. Chosen by families and investors who want the Trois Vallées without the 1850 premium.

Courchevel Village and Le Praz

Courchevel Village, the former 1550, keeps a lower-key feel with residences and chalets a gondola ride from 1850. Below it, Le Praz is the old village around its church, its lake and the Olympic ski jumps, with chalets of real character. For buyers who want a village to walk in rather than a resort to be seen in.

Saint-Bon and La Perrière

The valley villages where the commune began: Savoyard farmhouses, village houses and gardens among year-round residents, a short drive below the lifts. Prices belong to the valley rather than the resort, which is why the commune’s house sales trade below its apartments. For buyers who want a home to shape.

Why buyers choose Courchevel

Why Courchevel for a Real Estate Project?

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Trois Vallées at Your Door

Courchevel opens onto the largest linked ski area in the world, with the altiport and the Croisette lifts as its front door. For a skier, no other address in France offers this much terrain from a front door.


02

Run Like a Service

Professional snow-making, groomed villages, concierge and rental services, and a seasonal workforce that keeps everything open from December to April. Ownership here is as close to hands-off as mountain property gets.


03

Very Low Burglary Risk

With 16 home burglaries recorded in 2025 across 7,832 dwellings, or 2.04 per 1,000 homes against a French average of 5.63, the commune is one of the safest places to leave a home empty between visits.


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Scarce Stock, Clear Numbers

107 apartment sales were notarised in 2025 at a median of 11,811 EUR per m², while the 23 house sales traded at a median of 9,083 EUR per m², valley villages included. Advertised apartment rents average 14.5 EUR per m² per month, charges included.

On the ground

Getting to Courchevel, and getting around.

Courchevel sits in the Tarentaise valley of Savoie, on the northern side of the Trois Vallées, above Moûtiers and Bozel. Moûtiers-Salins station, about 40 minutes below the resort, has direct TGV services to Paris in winter and connections to Lyon and Geneva; Geneva Airport (GVA) is roughly two hours and a quarter by road and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS) about two hours, via the A430 to Albertville and the N90 up the valley. The altiport receives private flights at 1850. Free buses and gondolas link the villages.

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

Good to know

Courchevel real estate, the questions buyers ask.

Can Americans buy property in Courchevel?

Yes. There are no restrictions on foreign nationals, including U.S. citizens, buying property in France, and that applies to chalets and apartments in Courchevel. 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 a property in Courchevel?

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 altitude by altitude, so your offer is grounded in what neighbours actually paid rather than in an asking price set for the brochure.

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

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 property, 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 Courchevel?

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

Which Courchevel village should I buy in?

It depends on how you ski and how you spend. 1850 carries the premium, the service and the chalet hamlets; Moriond and Village offer the best apartment stock; Le Praz and the valley villages give character and a real year-round life at lower prices. We read the file against your use, not against the brand.

Can I rent out my Courchevel property when I am away?

Yes, and most owners do. Winter weeks let strongly through the resort’s agencies and concierge services, and a short summer season adds a little more. We help you buy with letting in mind: ski access, beds, parking, ski room, and the registration the commune requires for furnished tourist lets.

Are there avalanche or mountain building rules in Courchevel?

Yes. The commune’s risk plan maps avalanche and ground-movement zones, the mountain law limits new building outside existing villages, and the PLU and the resort’s charter set the chalet style. We check the zoning of every candidate and our Ynspir architects factor the rules into the renovation budget before you offer.

Start your Courchevel real estate search with us.

Begin your journey with French Real Estate Experts. Let us navigate the nuances of the Courchevel market, village by village, to find and craft your ideal home in the Trois Vallées. Contact us today for a private consultation.