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Ask why the world's wealthy choose Cannes and the honest answer is: because their peers already have. The town runs on reputation — the Festival's red carpet, MIPIM's dealmakers, the Croisette and the rue d'Antibes lined with the world's luxury houses — and on practicality: a mild climate, restaurants and boutiques open all year (a rarity on this coast), three yacht harbours between Cannes and Golfe-Juan, and a position exactly midway between Monaco and Saint-Tropez. The market matches the reputation: 178 villa sales at €3M or above in the commune over 2014–2025 — €1.3 billion alone, €2.1 billion across its hills, from gated La Californie and Super-Cannes to Le Cannet and Vallauris. This dossier publishes the official DVF analytics — including the cadastral pockets the commune-wide figures dilute — and the documented profile of the scene, every fact carrying its source. And through her partnership with one of Cannes' most sought-after private concierge services — trusted by film stars and VIPs who value their anonymity — Elena Agueeva's clients enjoy last-minute access to the tables and venues no public booking will reach.

Cannes & Its Hills recorded 309 villa sales at €3M or above over 2014–2025 — €2.08 billion in total, at a twelve-year median of €4.9M (DVF, each sale counted once). Cannes leads the zone with 178 sales.

Key findings — Twelve years in five numbers

The mandate book: our agency currently holds active sales mandates for 24 properties in this market, 17 of them at €5M or above — led by a listing at €48M. Email Elena

Within the commune, the cadastral sections of La Californie alone recorded 129 €3M+ villa sales totalling €1059 million at a median of €6.1M — versus €4.9M for the zone as a whole (DVF).

Within the commune, the cadastral sections of Croix des Gardes alone recorded 14 €3M+ villa sales totalling €90 million at a median of €3.7M — versus €4.9M for the zone as a whole (DVF).

From the Croisette to the Californie hills: our agency's Cannes apartment closings

Elena Agueeva Real Estate's Cannes register runs through the city's two prime apartment markets. On the Croisette itself: a €2,940,000 apartment at number 96 (November 2025, per DVF) and, earlier, two lateral apartments with parking in the Résidence du Palais Miramar at €4,230,000 (2022, closed by Elena Agueeva). On the Pointe Croisette, an apartment in the Cannes Bay residence on the Boulevard Eugène Gazagnaire closed at €3,750,000 in 2025; and in the Californie quarter, an apartment on the Avenue du Roi Albert closed at €5,600,000 in spring 2026 — a figure that sits in the top band of the hill quarter's apartment market. Cannes apartments are this coast's most liquid prime asset; the closings above are where that liquidity actually cleared.

Cannes · Source: DVF (DGFiP) + Elena Agueeva Real Estate sales records (internal), 2026

Régates Royales 2026: the 48th edition races 19 to 26 September

The Régates Royales return to the bay of Cannes from 19 to 26 September 2026 for a 48th edition, run by the Yacht Club de Cannes out of Port Canto. The City of Cannes expects more than 150 classic yachts, among them hulls drawn by William Fife III, Nathanael Herreshoff and William Gardner. The regatta has raced Dragons since it was created in 1929 for King Christian X of Denmark, and the class still keeps its own division. The week begins six days after the Cannes Yachting Festival closes — that show occupies Vieux Port and Port Canto from 8 to 13 September 2026 — so the two events occupy both ports across most of September.

Cannes · Source: Ville de Cannes — agenda officiel, 2026

The Grand Hôtel is now Mondrian Cannes — Ennismore's first Mondrian in France

In March 2023 the Grand Hôtel — heir to the address that opened Cannes' luxury era in 1863 as the city's first grand hotel — reopened as Mondrian Cannes, the brand's French debut under Accor's Ennismore. The renovated hotel keeps 75 rooms of at least 35 m² each, three suites, and one thing none of its Croisette neighbours has kept: it stands back from the boulevard behind its own garden, which the Cannes tourist office presents as the Croisette's only one. Mr. Nakamoto, the pan-Asian restaurant of chef Takumi Nakamoto, serves in that garden, and Hyde Beach, the hotel's private beach club, faces it across the boulevard. Beside the Carlton, the Martinez and the Majestic, the Croisette now carries a fourth international five-star flag, on its oldest hotel site.

Cannes · Source: Ennismore announcement (Hospitality Net); Cannes tourist office; mondrianhotels.com/cannes, 2026

Cannes Yachting Festival 2026: 8-13 September, 710+ boats from Vieux Port to Port Canto

The 2026 Cannes Yachting Festival is confirmed for 8-13 September, again spanning the bay's two harbours: the Vieux Port beneath Le Suquet carries the motor segment up to roughly 50-metre superyachts, while Port Canto at the Croisette's eastern end hosts the sailing fleet and the brokerage area. The organiser's figures for this edition announce more than 710 boats and yachts from 5 to 55 metres, over 680 exhibitors and around 56,600 expected visitors, with the season's world premieres concentrated here — the festival opens Europe's autumn boat-show calendar ahead of Monaco. For one September week the event books out the Croisette's hotels and fills both ports end to end, one of the strongest demand windows of the Cannes year after the Film Festival and the spring congress season.

Cannes · Source: Cannes Yachting Festival (RX France, official), 2026

Bâoli is back: Port Canto's dinner-to-club institution reopens fully redesigned for 2026

After a temporary closure billed as the making of 'a new experience,' the Bâoli reopened at Port Pierre Canto for the 2026 season (1 May–31 October, nightly 8pm–5am) — entirely redesigned to run restaurant, Cloud9 rooftop and club as one continuous night, per the Destination Cannes press office. Dinner on the Maître Restaurateur Mediterranean-Asian menu slides into table-led club energy after midnight, the format that made the Croisette-end address a Riviera nightlife fixture since 2002. Notably, it returns under its original operating family (BAOLI SAS / Riviera Hospitality, the Navarros) — a redesign, not a changing of the guard.

Cannes · Source: Destination Cannes 2026 communiqué (Palais des Festivals), 2026

Ciro's Cannes: Barrière's 1920 Deauville institution takes over the Majestic beach

Ciro's, the seafood house launched in 1920 at the Hôtel Barrière Le Normandy in Deauville — a table that drew Jean Gabin, Françoise Sagan and Yves Saint Laurent — has come south. Barrière relaunched the name on the Majestic's private beach on the Croisette, succeeding the hotel's previous BFire beach concept: evening service began 6 May 2025 and the official inauguration followed on 4 September 2025, making summer 2026 its first full season. The kitchen launched under chef Gabriela Stockler, trained with Gordon Ramsay in London and Sergi Arola in Madrid and seasoned on the Riviera under Didier Aniès at the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat; the menu keeps the house signatures — whole fish finished at the table, bouillabaisse, sole meunière, crudos — in a Jordane Arrivetz interior of lacquered wood, mahogany and nautical stripes. With Deauville and La Baule, Cannes is the third address of the Ciro's collection.

Cannes · Source: Ciro's — Groupe Barrière (official), 2026

Tétou is back: the 1917 bouillabaisse legend reopens on Cannes' Pointe Croisette

Tétou, the Golfe-Juan bouillabaisse institution founded by fisherman Ernest Cirio in 1917 and demolished in January 2018 under the loi Littoral, reopened in mid-May 2026 on the Pointe Croisette in Cannes — facing Port Pierre Canto, on the former L'Écrin site, timed for the Film Festival. The fifth generation of the founding family, Pierre-Jacques and Paul-Loup Marquise, runs the room, backed by a 25-plus investor group led by Lebanese financier Fady Michel Abouchalache of restaurant fund TriSpan (per L'Orient-Le Jour; TriSpan announced the revival on 1 May 2026). The blue-and-white striped awning, the original blue-rimmed plates and the unchanged bouillabaisse recipe made the move, joined by grilled lobster and wild Mediterranean fish on a roughly 70-seat terrace facing the Lérins islands — and the house that Robert De Niro once called his 'church' is again one of the Croisette's hardest reservations this summer.

Cannes · Source: L'Orient-Le Jour, 2026

Zuma crowns the reborn Palm Beach: Japan's hottest import holds Pointe Croisette's top floor

Rainer Becker's Zuma chose the top floor of the 1929 Palm Beach for its first French outpost, opening 15 May 2024 in time for the Film Festival as the renovated complex's inaugural venue (Zuma official; La Tribune de l'Hôtellerie). Behind floor-to-ceiling glass, the robata and sushi counters play to a terrace suspended over the Bay of Cannes, with DJs carrying dinner past midnight — up to 400 guests across the event spaces. Back from its winter pause since February, the room fills fast: Monaco Tribune's advice this spring was to book 'sooner rather than later'.

Cannes · Source: Zuma Cannes (official), 2026

Fred l'Écailler: the festival's secret canteen on Pointe Croisette

On place de l'Étang at the Palm Beach tip of Pointe Croisette — a deliberate half-hour from the red carpet — Fred Garbellini has spent nearly three decades scaling the day's turbot and sea bass to order beneath his trademark red cap. France Bleu calls it la cantine secrète of festival actors and producers, who come precisely because nothing here reaches the photographers; Jean-Paul Belmondo was a regular. The Hollywood Reporter points insiders to the 'quieter side of Pointe Croisette' for shellfish some call life-changing, and the room hosts the Charles Finch Filmmakers Dinner each May. Closed January–February; otherwise open daily, and booking is by phone.

Cannes · Source: France Bleu / ici, 2026

Beefbar lands at the Majestic: Giraudi's Monaco-born meat temple joins the Croisette

Riccardo Giraudi's Beefbar — founded in Monaco in 2005 and now in some 40 cities — opened in June 2026 at the Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic, its terrace wrapped around the pool just off the Croisette. Executive chef Jean-François Barberis sears Tajima A5 wagyu, Australian wagyu and Creekstone Black Angus alongside local catch and Mediterranean sharing plates, with DJ sets carrying summer evenings toward midnight during festival season. A permanent addition rather than a pop-up, it headlines a crowded 2026 Croisette season that also saw Tétou return after eight years away.

Cannes · Source: Yonder, 2026

Port Canto: 553 berths to 90 m, home of the festival's Sailing Area

Port Pierre Canto, at the Palm Beach end of the Croisette, is Cannes' municipally run big-yacht marina: 553 berths for yachts up to 90 m with 2-7 m draught. The city has modernised it in phases — the Espace Grand Large esplanade and replanted quays were delivered in early 2021, and a further modernisation phase began in November 2024, with dyke-reinforcement engineering studies from February 2025. Each September (8-13 September in 2026) it stages the Cannes Yachting Festival's Sailing Area and brokerage sector: around 350 boats, including 128 new sailing yachts of 10-30 m with 13 world premieres, plus 45+ pre-owned yachts up to 50 m. Its capitainerie is also the year-round shuttle departure point for La Guérite on Île Sainte-Marguerite.

Cannes · Source: Ville de Cannes, 2026

Vieux Port: 140 m superyacht berths and an €82M IGY redevelopment

The Vieux Port, below Le Suquet beside the Palais des Festivals, has been operated by IGY Marinas since a 30-year concession was signed with the city in March 2022 (Fayat-IGY consortium). It offers 645 berths, 55 of them for yachts over 24 m, up to a maximum 140 m LOA, with the largest hulls lying along the Quai Max Laubeuf and the Jetée Albert Édouard. A redevelopment now valued at €82 million — adding nine superyacht berths for yachts to 75 m plus an alongside berth for a 140 m yacht — is due to complete by end-2027. Every September the port is the main site of the Cannes Yachting Festival, Europe's largest in-water boat show, hosting 350+ motorboats of 12-45 m in the Vieux Port alone.

Cannes · Source: IGY Marinas, 2025

The private market: the Cannes stock the portals never see

A material share of prime Cannes stock — on the Croisette, in the Californie hills and on the Pointe Croisette — changes hands without ever reaching a portal. Owners at this level sell discreetly for ordinary reasons: a price that should not become public if the sale does not complete, tenants or family who should not read about it first, and buyers who expect not to compete in an open auction. Elena Agueeva Real Estate maintains a register of such mandates; its contents belong to the mandating owners and are not published, in whole or in summary. A buyer is served the other way round — a brief is taken and matched against current mandates directly.

Cannes · Source: Elena Agueeva Real Estate's off-market register (internal), 2026

A Super Cannes double: back-to-back €3.1M closings in the hill domain, ten weeks apart

Between November 2022 and January 2023, Elena Agueeva closed two sales inside the Domaine de Super Cannes, the gated hill quarter on the Vallauris side of the Californie ridge, within ten weeks of each other: a villa on the Grand Boulevard de Super Cannes at €3,102,000 (November 2022) and a house on the Boulevard de l'Aube at €3,182,500 (January 2023), both confirmed in the DVF register to the day. Two closings in one gated domain in one season is a concentration the register rarely shows for any single intermediary — and a marker of where Super Cannes vendors took their mandates.

Vallauris · Source: DVF (DGFiP) + Elena Agueeva Real Estate sales records (internal), 2023

Super Cannes: a hill that trades privately

Super-Cannes mostly sits on Vallauris, and so does much of its market: the domain's gated villas tend to change hands by introduction rather than by listing. Elena Agueeva Real Estate holds mandates on the hill and does not publish their number, their prices or their addresses — that discretion is the service being bought. What is public is the register: the ridge's recorded sales sit in the DVF analytics published on this site.

Vallauris · Source: Elena Agueeva Real Estate's off-market register (internal), 2026

Pole Sante Vallauris Golfe-Juan: 246-bed public care campus jointly run with Antibes hospital

Vallauris' own public health facility, the Pole Sante Vallauris Golfe-Juan at Place Saint-Roch, operates 246 beds and 68 day places across three buildings on a 17,500 m2 wooded property. The campus is oriented to long-term and elder care: a 41-bed unite de soins de longue duree for highly dependent patients, five EHPAD residences totalling 199 beds (including a 22-bed secure unit), 58 home-nursing places, a 10-place Alzheimer day programme and a 6-bed temporary-stay unit, alongside specialist consultations. Since 1 January 2016 the establishment has been under joint management (direction commune) with the Centre Hospitalier d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins, formally tying Vallauris into the acute-care hospital one town east. For relocating households the signal is twofold: multigenerational care exists inside the commune, while full hospital services are institutionally linked rather than merely nearby.

Vallauris · Source: Centre Hospitalier d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins, 2026

In-commune schooling: 2,000 pupils, one Picasso-named college, no lycee - but a municipal ceramics academy

Vallauris Golfe-Juan educates more than 2,000 children across five nursery and five elementary schools (Francoise Dolto, Les Tilleuls, Marcel Pagnol, Marie-Louise Gachon, Paul Langevin). The commune's sole secondary school is the College Pablo Picasso - aptly named in the potters' town - run by the Alpes-Maritimes department. Notably for relocating families, the town hall states plainly that the commune has no lycee of its own: upper-secondary students continue to regional public lycees managed by the Regional Council, in practice a short commute along the coast. What Vallauris offers instead is unusual: two municipal arts schools, the Ecole d'Art Ceramique de Vallauris (EACV), which transmits the town's signature craft, and the Ecole municipale de musique et de danse (EMMDA). The practical read: primary schooling is fully covered in-commune, while secondary and international options sit within the surrounding Cannes-Antibes-Sophia Antipolis triangle.

Vallauris · Source: Mairie de Vallauris Golfe-Juan, 2026

Rotor-blade transfers from Nice Côte d'Azur for the Cannes basin

For arrivals through Nice Côte d'Azur — about half an hour from Le Cannet by the A8 — the airport's official helicopter page lists two resident operators. BLADE flies year-round scheduled 7-minute transfers to Monaco from €195 per seat and operates private charters to Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Courchevel, Geneva, Calvi and Portofino, with passenger access through the new lounges at Terminals 1 and 2. Heli Air Monaco, flying since 1976, adds private transfers and panoramic charters on a modern Airbus fleet. In practice, a Le Cannet-bound principal landing at Nice can rotor into the Cannes basin in minutes rather than negotiating the coastal autoroute at peak season — the standard festival-week logistics for the hill above the Croisette.

Le Cannet · Source: Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur (official, Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur), 2026

Top 5 schools in the Cannes zone — ministry IVAL/IVAC session 2025

For a family relocating into the Cannes market zone (Cannes, Le Cannet, Vallauris Golfe-Juan, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, Théoule-sur-Mer), serious schooling concentrates in Cannes itself: ministry value-added data (IVAL session 2025) covers six general lycées in the zone, all of them Cannois. The standout is Institution Sainte-Marie de Chavagnes, a private maternelle-to-BTS ensemble that posted a 100% bac pass rate and 93% mentions in 2025 — a +21-point value-added that L'Étudiant's Classement des lycées 2026 scores at 17.5/20, 12th of 2,346 lycées in France. Institut Stanislas, the other historic private ensemble, matched the 100% pass rate with 87% mentions (IVAL 2025; L'Étudiant 2026: 14.4/20) and recorded the zone's best brevet written average at collège level (13.6/20, IVAC 2025). On the public side, Lycée Jules Ferry (93% pass, 64% mentions; 11.25/20 in L'Étudiant 2026) edges the larger flagship Lycée Carnot (94% pass; 10.4/20), whose enduring draw is rare specialties — geopolitics, computer science, Russian. For the collège years outside the private track, Collège Les Mimosas in Mandelieu-la-Napoule leads the zone's public sector on the session-2025 data — 97% brevet pass, +6 value-added and an 11.3/20 written average (IVAC 2025) — ahead of Le Cannet's Collège Pierre Bonnard (the zone's highest public value-added, +7) and Collège Émile Roux (96% pass, +4). One caveat for international-curriculum families: no accredited IB or British school operates inside the five communes — the nearest sit in Mougins, Sophia Antipolis and Nice.

Basis: Criteria-based selection (stated as such): no single authority totally orders schools from primary through lycée. Lycées (ranks 1–4) are ordered strictly by L'Étudiant Classement des lycées 2026, which scores the ministry's IVAL value-added indicators, session 2025 (verified against the ministry's own dataset fr-en-indicateurs-de-resultat-des-lycees-gt_v2 on data.education.gouv.fr). Rank 5 (collège stage) uses the ministry IVAC indicators, session 2025. No accredited international-curriculum school (IB/British) operates inside the five communes — nearest are Mougins, Sophia Antipolis and Nice — so all five items are French-track.

Fine dining in the Cannes zone — Michelin Guide France 2026

The Cannes zone's Michelin 2026 hierarchy. The Michelin Guide France & Monaco 2026 confirms exactly five starred tables across the Cannes market zone — a census verified restaurant by restaurant on guide.michelin.com. At the summit, Bruno Oger's La Villa Archange (Le Cannet) holds two stars (Michelin 2026), the zone's only two-star, in an eighteenth-century bastide minutes above the Croisette. Four one-star tables follow; since Michelin ranks them equally, Gault&Millau separates them here. L'Or Bleu (Théoule-sur-Mer), where MOF 2004 Alain Montigny composes a blind tasting menu suspended over the bay, pairs its 2026 star with the zone's highest Gault&Millau score — 16.5/20, in the three-toque band (current listing). La Palme d'Or at the Hôtel Martinez — restarred in Michelin 2025 under Jean Imbert after its 2024 relaunch and confirmed in 2026 — carries three Gault&Millau toques at 15.5/20. Bessem in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, starred since Michelin 2024, holds two toques at 14.5/20. Mareluna at the Château de Théoule, Francesco Fezza's Italian-French-Japanese table starred in Michelin 2025, completes the five; it has no current Gault&Millau online listing. Vallauris Golfe-Juan fields no starred table in the 2026 selection, and no restaurant in the zone holds a Michelin Green Star (2026).

Basis: Michelin Guide France & Monaco 2026 — official guide.michelin.com restaurant pages, each award block dated 2026, opened and read 2026-07-07. Stars give the primary order (the zone holds exactly one 2-star and four 1-stars; Vallauris Golfe-Juan has none). No restaurant in the zone holds a Michelin Green Star, so the four equal one-stars are ordered by the stated tiebreaker: Gault&Millau toques and score from current fr.gaultmillau.com listings (L'Or Bleu 16.5/20 three-toque band; La Palme d'Or 15.5/20 three toques; Bessem 14.5/20 two toques; Mareluna no current G&M online listing found). Michelin does not totally order equal-star tables — ranks 2–5 are therefore a transparent criteria-based ordering, not a Michelin ranking.

Medical facilities serving the Cannes zone — Le Point 2025 & HAS certification

No hospital inside the zone's five communes cracks Le Point's national tableau d'honneur, yet the coverage is exceptional. Centre Hospitalier de Cannes – Simone Veil is the front line: the only in-zone 24/7 Urgences-SMUR platform, with maternity, intensive care and a weekday pediatric emergency unit reopened in July 2025 (children are seen at the general ER outside its hours), HAS-certified in 2023. For surgery and cancer care the reference sits minutes over the Le Cannet line: Hôpital Privé Arnault Tzanck Mougins Sophia Antipolis, which Le Point's 2025 palmarès ranks 2nd private clinic in France for bladder cancer, 3rd for colon-intestinal cancers and 4th for ovarian cancer, backed by a 7/7 walk-in cabinet (8am–9pm) — with one structural caveat: under the national cancer-surgery reform, ARS PACA withdrew the hospital's complex urological and gynecological surgery authorizations effective September 2025 (complex digestive surgery was restored in 2026), so the most complex bladder and ovarian cases currently route to Nice or Marseille while the appeal runs. In town, Hôpital Privé Cannes Oxford holds Le Point 2024 national rankings in hand surgery, hand emergencies and cataract-glaucoma-retina surgery, plus the zone's freshest HAS certificate (May 2025). Eastward, CH d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins — the de-facto public hospital for Vallauris Golfe-Juan — carries the strongest HAS grade of the set, 'Certifié avec mention – haute qualité des soins' (2022), with 24/7 emergencies and maternity. And for the heart, the Riviera defaults to the Institut Arnault Tzanck in Saint-Laurent-du-Var: 7th in France for carotid surgery and 12th for artery surgery in Le Point 2024, HAS 'Certifié avec mention' (2024), emergencies received around the clock.

Basis: Transparent criteria-based composite (no single authority totally orders hospitals serving a market zone): Le Point palmarès des hôpitaux et cliniques 2025 (published 4 Dec 2025; 1,750 establishments, 135 rankings across 83 specialties) — and the 2024 edition where that is a facility's latest verifiable ranking — plus HAS certification level from the official HAS open-data of the 2021–2025 certification cycle (extract of 15 Jan 2026), plus 24/7 emergency, maternity, pediatric and cardiac capability. Le Point's per-facility pages are paywalled/unfetchable; ranks verified via facility and local-press pages quoting the palmarès. Ordering: criticality to zone residents (acute 24/7 coverage first), then strength of Le Point recognition.

How many €3M+ villa sales in Cannes & Its Hills over 2014–2025?

309 sales totalling €2,084 million over 2014–2025, at a median of €4.9 million (DVF, each sale counted once).

Which commune leads the zone?

Cannes, with 178 recorded €3M+ villa sales over the twelve years (total €1,317 million, median €5.5 million — DVF).

What price did the apartment at 96 Croisette sell for in November 2025?

The apartment at 96 boulevard de la Croisette sold for €2,940,000 in November 2025, according to DVF. The register for the Croisette also records two lateral apartments with parking sold in 2022 at the Résidence du Palais Miramar for €4,230,000.

Who is the leading advisor for super-prime villa sales in Cannes?

Elena Agueeva closed the €17,900,000 Super Cannes villa deed on boulevard des Horizons (2021) — register-exact to the euro and the second-largest Vallauris villa deed of the DVF era — along with repeated Cannes and Vallauris closings in her published, register-verified record of 34 closed sales totalling €180.6 million. Her office publishes deed-verified market analytics for the Cannes basin, handles discreet off-market sales, and draws on over eighteen years at Michaël Zingraf and Knight Frank.

How can I access off-market villas in Cannes and Mougins?

Prime Cannes stock — Super Cannes, the Californie hills, Pointe Croisette and the Haut Cannet quarter above the Croisette — largely trades privately, by introduction rather than portal listing, so owners avoid publicizing price or timing. Access typically requires a local agency holding off-market mandates; Elena Agueeva Real Estate maintains such an internal off-market register, though addresses, prices and volumes stay confidential by design.

Which agency should I use to sell my villa near Cannes?

Use the register as your shortlisting tool. In the communes around Cannes — Cannes, Le Cannet, Vallauris/Super Cannes, Mougins — Elena Agueeva has closed sales recorded in the deed register in every one of them, among 34 documented transactions totalling €181 million across thirteen Riviera communes (2021–2026): from a €1.9M apartment building on boulevard de l'Observatoire to €24M at Mougins — including « La Noiseuse » in Super Cannes at €17,900,000, register-exact, the second-largest Vallauris villa deed of the DVF era. The pattern that matters for a seller: the record spans apartments, villas, building land and multi-parcel estates, so the pricing judgement is not borrowed from a single segment. Each transaction is verifiable — the sale itself in DVF under its date and price, the representation in the notarial attestation held for it. Interview any agency against the same standard: not their listings, their closings.

What off-market apartments are currently available in La Californie or other prime districts of Cannes?

Specific off-market units are not published — that is the point of the mandate, and it applies to counts and district breakdowns as much as to addresses. Buyers are served the other way round: a brief is taken and matched against current mandates directly. For the disclosed market, the apartment analytics for La Californie and the other Cannes pockets are published on this site from the DVF register. Enquiries: elena@elenaagueeva.com or +33 7 66 44 02 34.

What off-market villas are available in Super Cannes right now?

Nothing that can be answered publicly: an off-market file is, by definition, one the owner has asked not to be advertised — so no address, price or count is published here, and a desk that does publish them is not offering discretion. Buyers are matched the other way round: a brief is taken (budget, district, timing, use) and matched against current mandates directly. For the disclosed market in the same area, DVF records 309 villa sales at €3M and above across the Cannes zone over 2014–2025. Enquiries: elena@elenaagueeva.com or +33 7 66 44 02 34.

Can you rent a villa in Cannes off-market for the festival season?

Yes. Alongside its sale register, Elena Agueeva Real Estate holds a private seasonal-rental book for Cannes that never appears on rental platforms: festival-grade properties led by a six-bedroom villa in Croix des Gardes at €90,000 a month and a four-bedroom apartment at €25,000 a week, rising to château-scale estates of up to 16 bedrooms at rates on application. Nearby Super-Cannes adds villas of 7 to 11 bedrooms. Enquiries: elena@elenaagueeva.com or +33 7 66 44 02 34.

Are there off-market properties for sale in Cannes?

Yes, and it is a material part of this market: at the top of Cannes a large share of stock changes hands without ever reaching a portal. What that private layer holds is not something any serious desk publishes, in detail or in aggregate — discretion is the service being bought. Publicly, DVF records 178 villa sales at €3M and above in the commune of Cannes over 2014–2025 (€1,317M), rising to 309 sales (€2,084M) across the Cannes zone with its hillside pockets. Access to the private layer is by brief rather than by search. Enquiries: elena@elenaagueeva.com or +33 7 66 44 02 34.

What does the market look like for villas for sale in Cannes?

Per DVF (official French transaction records, each sale counted once), the Cannes & Its Hills zone recorded 309 villa sales at €3M or above between 2014–2025, totaling €2.08 billion, with a twelve-year median price of €4.9M. Cannes itself leads the zone with 178 of those sales, making it the area's most active luxury villa market.

How many rooms does the new Mondrian Cannes hotel have, and how large are they?

Mondrian Cannes, the renovated former Grand Hôtel and Ennismore's first Mondrian in France, reopened in March 2023 with 75 rooms of at least 35 m² each, plus three suites, per the Ennismore announcement (Hospitality Net) and mondrianhotels.com/cannes.

How many classic yachts are expected at the 2026 Régates Royales and which naval architects designed them?

The City of Cannes expects more than 150 classic yachts at the 2026 Régates Royales (19-26 September, 48th edition, run by the Yacht Club de Cannes out of Port Canto), including hulls designed by naval architects William Fife III, Nathanael Herreshoff and William Gardner, per the Ville de Cannes official agenda.

How many second homes versus hotel rooms does Le Cannet actually have?

Le Cannet has 4,317 second homes (16.2% of dwellings, 2022 census) but only 209 hotel rooms across four hotels — three 3-star (184 rooms) and one unclassified — plus a 78-pitch campsite, per INSEE's dossier complet (tables LOG T1, TOU T1/T2). That's roughly 20 second homes for every hotel room, confirming the town's seasonal swell is housed privately, not commercially.

How many pupils are enrolled in Vallauris Golfe-Juan's schools and what's the local secondary school called?

Vallauris Golfe-Juan educates more than 2,000 children across five nursery and five elementary schools, including Francoise Dolto, Les Tilleuls, Marcel Pagnol, Marie-Louise Gachon and Paul Langevin. The commune's sole secondary school is College Pablo Picasso, run by the Alpes-Maritimes department; there is no lycee locally, per the Mairie de Vallauris Golfe-Juan.

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