La Une · Property
Megève's quiet summer boom: why British buyers stopped waiting for winter
Agencies across the Pays du Mont-Blanc report a surge in warm-season completions as dual-season resorts outperform the high-altitude giants — and the new Geneva rail link shortens the school-run maths.
For decades the ritual was fixed: view in February, haggle in May, complete in October, ski at Christmas. That calendar is dissolving. Of the 214 sales recorded by notaires in the Megève–Combloux–Praz communes in the year to June, nearly half completed between April and September — a share that has doubled since 2019.
"The buyer has changed," says one Megève agent, who asked not to be named while a €4.2m farmhouse deal remains in its cooling-off period. "They work remotely part of the year. They ask about July hiking and school calendars before they ask about the pistes." The resorts winning are those below 1,500 metres with real villages — precisely the ones the climate models once condemned…
