Twenty hectares of English-style park around a five-hectare natural lake, two kilometres from the ocean. Residential, family Biarritz — we guide buyers and sellers here.
Lac Marion is not landscaping: it is a natural five-hectare lake fed by an artesian well, at the centre of a twenty-hectare estate turned into an English-style public garden in the 1990s. Wide lawns, thickets, standalone trees. The surrounding district lies two kilometres from the ocean — far enough to escape tourist pressure entirely, close enough to reach it in minutes. This is the Biarritz people live in rather than the one they visit.
Family villas with gardens, houses from the 1960s to the 1990s and a few recent builds. The sector has no architectural unity, which leaves genuine latitude for alteration — a rare advantage in Biarritz, where older stock often constrains plans.
This is the main asset, and it is measurable: here you buy metres of land, not metres of view. Plot sizes bear no comparison with the seafront, and that is what draws families.
Two kilometres, a few minutes by bicycle along the cycle paths. That distance is exactly what gives the sector its calm, its gardens and its large plots — while keeping the beach within easy reach.
Families settled year-round, often with children in school. Buyers leaving the centre for land without leaving the commune. And renovation or extension projects, which the more recent stock allows more easily.
The twenty-hectare estate is the sector's centre of gravity: here it is distance to the park, not to the sea, that structures value. The immediate surroundings offer a lasting outlook — the park is public and will not be built on. Moving away, you gain in plot size what you lose in proximity. We always cross-check these two variables, because they do not move in the same direction and a buyer needs to know which matters more to them.
The children cycle round the lake while you read on the grass; the beach can wait for the weekend.
Precise location, orientation, volume, garden, timing. The gap between two addresses often lies in what no listing mentions.
We draw on our network of owners, notaires and introducers. A significant share of transactions here is settled without ever being advertised.
We visit, check true orientation, structural condition, easements and extension potential. You travel only for what deserves it.
Through to completion. And if you are selling, we build the valuation on your property's own characteristics — never on a neighbourhood average.
Because no prestige property comes down to an average. Two neighbouring houses on plots of identical size are not worth the same if one faces south and the other sits in shade. We assess exact location, orientation, plot, features and scarcity — a bespoke valuation, never a price grid.
Fully, two kilometres from the ocean. It is the residential part of the commune, the part that lives all year. You get the services and the address without the pressure of the shoreline.
More easily than in the centre, because the stock is recent and the plots larger. The applicable rules are set by the local planning framework and do change: we direct you to the official source before you commit to any building project.
That is its primary vocation: land, calm, a twenty-hectare park immediately to hand, and neighbourhood life that never pauses. Children walk to school and cycle to the beach.
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 project at Lac Marion, whether buying or selling. We reply personally within 48 hours, in complete confidence.
07 86 71 33 13Lac Marion is one of the addresses we work in. We cover many others across the Pays Basque, and we hold a certain idea of what this profession should be, better told elsewhere than on this page.
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