Find an Apartment in Paris With Emilie in Paris, Our Buyer Agent
Every few months, a client asks us, half joking, whether we could find them the apartment from Emily in Paris. Here is the honest answer. The building is real, it stands at 1 Place de l’Estrapade in the 5th arrondissement, a few steps from the Panthéon, and nothing inside it is cheap. The flat you see on screen is also far larger than any genuine chambre de bonne. But we do have our own Emilie in Paris. She is a real buyer agent, she has spent years finding homes on the eastern side of the capital, and her Paris looks rather different from the one on Netflix.
Where the Emily in Paris apartment actually is
The address that fans photograph every day is 1 Place de l’Estrapade, in the 75005, right in the heart of the Latin Quarter. The building dates from 1830 and sits one block from the Panthéon, a short walk from the Sorbonne and from the Jardin du Luxembourg where Emily goes jogging in the second episode. The small square has a fountain, a few benches, and a bakery at one end where the famous first pain au chocolat is bought. The Italian restaurant Terra Nera, on the nearby rue des Fossés Saint-Jacques, plays the part of Gabriel’s restaurant.
One thing worth saying plainly: this is a private residential building with real residents who did not sign up for a permanent film set outside their front door. The square is public and free to visit, the staircase is not. If you are there for a photograph, keep it to the pavement.
What the series does get right is the appeal of the district itself. The 5th is the oldest arrondissement in Paris and one of the most consistently sought after, which is exactly why our team works it so closely. If you are seriously considering the neighbourhood, our buyer agent service in the 5th arrondissement covers the Panthéon, Val-de-Grâce, Contrescarpe and Jardin des Plantes sectors street by street.
What an Emily in Paris apartment really costs
This is where the fantasy meets the notaire. The average price in the 5th arrondissement sits at around €12,050 per square metre, against roughly €11,500 across Paris as a whole. And in that specific building, a 183 square metre flat on the third floor was put on the market in spring 2026 at around €3.5 million, which works out at close to €19,000 per square metre. Screen fame carries a premium, and buyers pay it.
| Reference | Price per square metre |
|---|---|
| Paris, citywide average | around €11,500 |
| 5th arrondissement, average | around €12,050 |
| 1 Place de l’Estrapade, flat listed in 2026 | around €19,000 |
There is a second gap between fiction and reality. Emily’s home is described in the series as a chambre de bonne on the fifth floor. In real Paris, a chambre de bonne is a small former servants’ room under the roof, frequently without its own bathroom, and nothing like the bright studio with a view that the production designed. Charming on screen, considerably tighter in life.
Meet Emilie, our own Emilie in Paris
We could hardly let the joke pass. Our Emilie is Emilie Vergne, and she is a buyer agent for Homelike Home in Grand Paris Est, which makes her rather more Emilie in Paris Est: Montreuil, Vincennes, Nogent-sur-Marne, Saint-Maurice, Champigny, Le Pré Saint-Gervais. No Netflix contract, but a very real knowledge of where the good buildings are.
Her route into property was anything but linear. She trained in communication and marketing, in tourism, in jewellery and in music, and she lived and worked in Australia, New Zealand and Canada before settling back in France. Her first job was as a travel agent, which is how she saw a good part of the world. For an international client, that background is not a decorative line in a biography. It is the reason she understands what it feels like to arrive somewhere and have to build a home from nothing.
She came to property hunting through images: four years of virtual tours and photo shoots for the industry, then a course in interior design during lockdown, then a meeting with one of our hunters who introduced her to Christine. She was born in the Val-de-Marne and lives in Montreuil, where her grandmother lived for many years, in the Solidarité and Carnot quarter. Ask her to describe herself as a neighbourhood and she will point to the little market on the place Carnot, a bar with live music, and the Bois de Vincennes ten minutes away for the quiet. In the hours she has left over she turns forgotten objects into lamps, including a pendant light built from a gramophone horn.
Emilie is one of a wider team, and the eastern suburbs are her ground. If you are drawn to the space, the gardens and the houses that Paris itself cannot offer, our property finders for the Paris suburbs cover that whole belt around the capital. And to state the obvious for the lawyers: we have no connection with the series, we simply happen to employ an excellent Emilie.
What the series quietly leaves out
Television compresses everything, and house hunting is the first casualty. In the real Paris market the best apartments frequently sell within 48 hours, often before they ever appear on a public portal, which is why so much of our work happens off-market through agencies, notaries and private sellers. Nobody strolls into a viewing at leisure.
Then come the small collisions with French reality. Emily herself gets one right in the opening episode when she cannot work out which floor she lives on, because a French ground floor is not a first floor. Our international clients meet the same thing in less amusing forms. Buyers arriving from New York or Dubai often assume air conditioning is a formality, then discover a co-ownership rulebook, a protected façade and a balcony where an outdoor unit has no business being. Add the DPE energy rating, which now shapes both value and what you are allowed to rent out, and you have a market that rewards local reading over enthusiasm.
How to actually find your apartment in Paris
A buyer agent, or chasseur immobilier, works for one person only: the buyer. We hold no stock to sell, so there is no listing we are quietly trying to move. The method has not changed since 2003. We write a precise brief with you, canvass the entire market including what never gets published, carry out the first visits ourselves and report back honestly, then build the offer, negotiate the price and conditions, and follow the file through the notaire to the final signature. Clients who live abroad go through the whole search without boarding a plane, which is most of them.
Our fees are transparent and paid on success only, on the day of the acte authentique, on a degressive scale that starts at 2.90% and falls to 1.00% on the largest budgets. Until you own the home, you pay nothing. In Paris we begin a search from a budget of €350,000. Across the twenty arrondissements, our buyer agents in Paris apply the same approach, and if you are still weighing up the country rather than the street, our guide on why France remains a strong market for international buyers is the place to start.
Bottom line
The Emily in Paris apartment exists, at 1 Place de l’Estrapade in the 5th arrondissement, and living in that building costs roughly €19,000 per square metre when something comes up, against a Paris average nearer €11,500. The version of Paris that fits your budget and your life is almost certainly somewhere else, and finding it takes access rather than luck: off-market listings, a reading of the micro-market street by street, and someone on the ground who visits before you do. That is the job. Tell us what you are looking for and talk to our team about your project, and we will start the search, in the Latin Quarter or wherever your Paris turns out to be.
Frequently asked questions
Can you visit the Emily in Paris apartment building?
You can visit the square. Place de l’Estrapade is public, free and open at all hours, and the exterior of number 1 is what appears on screen. The building itself is a private residence and there is nothing to tour inside, so photographs from the square are as close as you get.
Which métro station is closest to Place de l’Estrapade?
Cardinal Lemoine on line 10 and Jussieu on lines 7 and 10 are both a short walk away. The RER B at Luxembourg also puts you within a few minutes, which is the line that runs directly to Charles de Gaulle airport.
Is the apartment shown in the series a real flat?
The building is real, the flat as filmed is not a faithful picture of what is behind those windows. It was designed for the series and it is considerably larger and brighter than a genuine chambre de bonne, which was originally a servants’ room under the roof.
Can a foreign buyer purchase property in France?
Yes. France places no nationality restriction on buying property, and non-residents purchase freely, including from abroad. What changes for an international buyer is the practical side: financing, tax treatment, and a purchase process built around the notaire, which is where being guided locally makes the difference.
