Property portals, also know as real estate websites, are vital to market your properties.

Here are the most important French real estate websites in 2024:

1. LeBonCoin (125 million overall – general classifieds – probably 40 million visitors for real estate)
2. SeLoger.com (23 million)
3. Bienici.com (9 million)
4. Figaro Immobilier (7.4 million)
5. Logic-Immo.com (4.6 million)
6. ParuVendu (4 million)
7. PAP.fr (3.3 million)
8. OuestFrance Immo (2.8 million)
9. AVendreALouer (2 million)
10. Entre Particuliers (1.9 million)

Other rankings exist, such as the one done by MeilleursReseaux.com.

So these are the most consulted property websites in France. Notably, LeBonCoin bought AvendreALouer in 2017. The same year, SeLoger acquired Logic-Immo.com.

However if you are reading this article, it means you’re probably not a real estate agent from France. You may be an agent from another country trying to market your properties to French buyers.

Sell Spanish and Portuguese properties to French buyers

French buyers are very active in Spain and Portugal. Indeed France is the #1 or #2 nationality of foreign buyers in Spain and Portugal.

Therefore, if you want to market your properties from Spain to French buyers, what should you do?

1. Do the Google searches that a potential French buyer could make
2. Identify the property portals that capture 80% of the traffic
3. Start advertising worldwide for as little as €11 per month

“Appartements à vendre en Espagne” will for example bring you to Google search results showing:

• Properstar.fr
• PAP.fr
• Idealista.com
• SeLoger.com
• ParuVendu,fr

The profile of French buyers

Each year, French buyers buy between 5,000 and 10,000 Spanish properties. They are the #2 or #3 nationality of foreign buyers in Spain, making the top 3 with the British as well as the German buyers.

French buyers pay on average €2,000 per square meter. The average mortgage is €174,356. Only a third of the French buyers (32.7%) buy properties larger than 100 square meters.

… and other French-speaking buyers

The Belgians represented the 4th most important nationality of foreign buyers in Spain with 6.3% of foreign purchases in Spain, with 4,100 transactions. One more nationality: the Moroccans. With 4,81% of total sales to foreigners, they represented 3145 purchases in Spain. Two more nationalities counting many French-speaking buyers: the Algerians with 869 transactions (1,33% of 65,400) and the Swiss, with 627 transactions (0,96% of 65,400).

Cumulating the Belgians, the Moroccans, the Algerians and the Swiss, we get to 8741 transactions.

So, when you think about marketing your properties to French buyers, think about French-speaking buyers. Instead of addressing a market representing 4,800 transactions per year, you will be addressing a market representing 13,541 transactions per year.