Renovated 3-room flat of 42 m² with terrace, Résidence des Virgiles in Sainte-Maxime

• Completely renovated, new fittings
• Brand new open-plan kitchen: oven, induction hob, fridge, dishwasher
• Two bedrooms, each with its own fitted wardrobe
• Bathroom with bath and shower, new washing machine
• 12 m² terrace with storage, glazed from March
• Air conditioning
• Fibre optic
• Private parking space included
• Secure residence with caretaker, leafy grounds, garden and pool
• 1 km from the beaches, the shops and public transport

The rent is €1,200 per month, plus €110 of service charges. We let directly, with no agency: there are no letting fees, no application fees and no tenancy drafting fees.

The application comes before the viewing. Two documents are enough to open it: both sides of your identity card and your latest tax assessment. We review it the same day.

Viewings of this flat take place on Saturdays at 11am, or on weekdays around 6pm. We agree the slot by phone as soon as your application reaches us.

This home is rated D. That letter comes from the energy performance certificate, compulsory on every rental advert for several years now. It sums up the home's energy use and its greenhouse gas emissions, on a scale from A to G.

Since 1 January 2025, homes rated G can no longer be let as a main home in mainland France. The legal timetable then rules out homes rated F, and after that homes rated E. A home rated D is affected by none of these deadlines.

The letter has a second, more immediate use: it helps you estimate your bills. The certificate gives an estimate of annual energy costs for standard use, with a reference year for prices. It is not your bill, but it is an honest basis for comparing two homes.

An energy performance certificate lasts ten years, unless work is carried out. When a home is renovated, the certificate has to be redone to take account of the insulation, the windows and the heating system installed. Until a new certificate is drawn up, the old letter is the one displayed, and it is the one that counts.

The word renovated means nothing until you spell it out. In this home it means a new open-plan kitchen, reversible air conditioning, fibre broadband, two bedrooms with fitted wardrobes and a 12 m² terrace glazed in the spring.

A glazed terrace changes the way you use a flat. It becomes an extra room from October to April, instead of a space you look at through the window for six months. On 42 m², twelve square metres usable all year completely change the proportions.

Reversible air conditioning does the same job the other way round: it cools in August and heats in winter, more efficiently than an electric convector. In a flat this size, that is the item that weighs most on your energy costs.

The fitted wardrobe in each bedroom is a landlord's detail, not an architect's. Built-in storage is a wardrobe you do not buy and a square metre you do not lose. In a compact three-room flat, that kind of choice shows in daily life far more than at a viewing.

Fibre broadband changes the status of a town like this one. What used to be a holiday destination becomes a working address, and a renovated three-room flat with a glazed terrace becomes an office nobody has to rent on top.

This home has fibre broadband and air conditioning. These are the two practical conditions for remote work on the coast: a connection that holds up video calls, and a room you can use in August without sweating over your keyboard.

The 12 m² glazed terrace works as a second room. Setting up a workstation somewhere other than the living room or the bedroom is the number one difficulty of working from home in a compact flat. Here the space already exists and it is usable all year.

The rest comes down to the rhythm of the town. Out of season, Sainte-Maxime is quiet, the shops are within walking distance, and the winter days are bright. In season, you have to work around the traffic: plan your outside appointments for the morning, and keep the afternoon for your desk.

Between one tenant leaving and the next arriving, a home goes through a refurbishment. With us it is systematic, because we keep our properties for a long time and a fault left aside always costs more later.

We redo the paintwork where needed, we check the taps, the electrics, the air conditioning and the windows, and we send the trades in before the inventory of condition rather than after. A home is let clean and in order, or it is not let at all.

We complete the move-in inventory of condition with you, room by room, with the meter readings. Take the time to read it and to have what you notice added: it is this document, and this document alone, that will serve as the reference on the day you leave.

The home comes with an outdoor parking space and a private cellar, both included in the tenancy agreement. They are not let separately and they carry no extra charge.

The space solves a real problem: in Sainte-Maxime, parking in the centre becomes impossible to find from June onwards, and the town takes in a summer population far beyond its some 14,000 permanent residents.

The cellar adds the storage volume that almost every flat this size lacks. Bikes, skis, suitcases, boxes: it is what lets you live in three rooms without cluttering them.

Les visites se font le samedi à 11 h ou en semaine vers 18 h, sur rendez-vous, une fois le dossier étudié. Appelez-nous au 06 07 85 66 10 pour caler un créneau.