The quays, rue Notre-Dame, the former chais, the market square. We search on your behalf, off-market included, from first conversation to completion.
In the Chartrons, most of the finest apartments occupy buildings that were never residential. The warehouses and chais built to store wine were converted from the 1980s onwards: hence open floors running front to back, ceiling heights new build never reaches, exposed roof timbers and glazed roofs. Alongside them, merchants' houses divided into a few lots offer whole floors with parquet, mouldings and period fireplaces. Two origins, two ways of living, and properties no catalogue can make comparable.
Three origins meet here. The converted chais, with their open floors and roof timbers. The divided merchants' houses, where you occupy a whole level. And the newer buildings, regular, often with a lift and parking, which counts for a great deal in an old quarter.
This is the lever specific to a Chartrons apartment. The streets are narrow and the frontages face one another: two floors' difference changes a room's light entirely. Upper levels and the chais with glazed roofs catch a daylight the lower floors do not have.
The quarter has been built for three centuries and its perimeter will not change. Every chai conversion is an event, and the floors that come out of them form a finite set. That is what gives these addresses their lasting value.
Bordeaux residents wanting the centre on foot without a garden to maintain. Executives arriving in the metropolis and looking for a quarter already alive. Buyers from across Nouvelle-Aquitaine choosing an address in town. And lovers of volume, drawn by one particular chai.
The converted warehouses facing the Garonne, with the finest volumes in the quarter.
The floors above the antique dealers and food shops, at the heart of the quarter's life.
The bourgeois buildings of the quieter streets, at the edge of the park.
The walk down to the esplanade, the historic centre fifteen minutes away.
You open the roof light one June evening, the light falls across the beams of the old chai, and you hear the city without seeing it.
The volume of a chai or the mouldings of a merchant's house, the floor, the outdoor space, the parking. In the Chartrons these criteria form a hierarchy, and the order you give them shapes the whole search.
Managing agents, notaires and local owners tell us about lots early. With chai conversions, floors are often placed before the works are even finished.
We visit at the useful hour, we measure the light by orientation, the exact ceiling height, the condition of the common areas and the access. We call you when a floor is worth the journey.
Through to completion, alongside your notaire. We negotiate for you, and for you alone — never for the seller.
No. A chai floor with five metres to the roof timbers and a classic second floor of the same size do not compare. Height, light, the building's origin and the level make most of it. We start from the building and its history, the level and what the window gives you to see.
Recent conversions fully are: insulation, heating and joinery have been renewed, often with care. We check the detail of each scheme and the year of the works, so you know exactly what you are entering.
It is a point we address from the outset, as it varies greatly from one address to the next. Some conversions provided underground spaces, others did not. We tell you before the viewing, not after.
Yes, and it is common here. In the small developments created from divided houses, a lot often passes on within the quarter's network without any listing appearing.
Agreed in advance and transparent. For a search mandate they fall due only on acquisition. The detail is set out at our first meeting.
One call is enough to frame your search in the Chartrons. We reply personally within 48 hours, in complete confidence.
07 86 71 33 13The Chartrons are one of the quarters we work in across Bordeaux. We cover many others, and we hold a certain idea of what this profession should be, better told elsewhere than on this page.
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