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Building plots in Èze · From Cannes to Monaco

Before you buy a plot in Èze, find out which villa it will allow.

A listing shows a surface area, a sea view, sometimes a permit. It rarely tells you what you will see from your living room, what the slope will demand, or what the planning rules will let you build. Come with us to visit the plots we present, and see them through a builder’s eye: we have been designing and building villas since 1993.

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What surface area does not tell you

Two plots in Èze, six square metres apart. Not the same villa.

These three plots are among those we have presented in Èze. The first two measure 1,000 and 1,006 m2, and both have a sea view. Yet here is what has been approved or deemed feasible on each:

  • Plot 1,000 m2 Permit granted A 360 m2 villa

    With a pool.

  • Plot 1,006 m2 Permit granted A 285 m2 villa

    With a pool and garage.

  • Plot 1,400 m2 Feasible A 360 m2 villa

    With a double garage and pool.

Based on the details of the plots presented by Midi Mas in 2024 and 2025. Bars: villa floor area, to the same scale.

The difference has nothing to do with surface area. It comes from the shape of the plot, its slope, its access, the planning rules that apply to it, and the project chosen for it: a permit fixes one project, not necessarily everything the plot allows. All of this can be read on site and on the plans, provided you know where to look.

You do not buy a plot by the square metre. You buy it for the house it allows.

The plots we present

Building plots in Èze, and from Cannes to Monaco.

Each one is described by what it allows, not just by what it measures. Several already have a building permit (permis de construire). Price and availability, confirmed with the seller, and the status of the permit: we give you all of this in our very first conversation, plot by plot.

In and around Èze

8 plots

Further afield

From Cannes to Monaco

Midi Mas presents these plots with a view to designing and building your villa on them. The plot details were published in late 2024 and updated in early 2025: since then, some plots may have found a buyer, some permits may have expired, and the planning rules of several towns have changed (in Mougins, for example, the local zoning plan, or PLU, was amended in December 2025). We confirm everything, plot by plot, in our first conversation.

None quite right? Show us the plots you spot, in Èze or anywhere from Cannes to Monaco: we look at them with you, through a builder’s eye, before you decide to buy.

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Cross-section of a sloping plot From the highest point of the plot, the eye clears everything and reaches the sea. At the level of the future living room, further down, it runs into the neighbour’s house. The required setback fixes where the house stands, and the slope calls for a retaining structure. 1 2 3 4 5
  1. 1On the day of the visit, from the highest point: the sea.
  2. 2From the living room, a few metres lower: the neighbour’s roof.
  3. 3The setback required by the planning regulations, which decides where the house can stand.
  4. 4The retaining structure the slope calls for.
  5. 5What the neighbour is still entitled to build.
Illustrative diagram: on a sloping plot, a drop of a few metres is enough to change a view.

What a listing does not show

You look at the view. We look at where you will see it from.

A plot in Èze, one Saturday morning. The gate opens onto dry-stone terraces (restanques), olive trees, a few pines and, down below, the sea all the way to Cap Ferrat. It is what the listing promised, and it is true.

You do what everyone does: you climb to the top of the plot, where the view is finest, and you are already picturing the terrace right where you stand.

But your living room will not be there. It will be lower down, or further back: wherever the slope, the setbacks required by the planning regulations and access for construction machinery allow it to sit. That day, you will no longer be standing on a plot. You will be sitting in your own home. That is where the plot will have to keep its promises.

We, for our part, stay down below for a while. We look at where the construction machinery will come in, where the hill’s shadow will fall on a December afternoon, what the zone’s regulations allow here, in height as well as ground coverage, and what the neighbour could build tomorrow between you and the sea. Then we climb back up, and ask the only question that counts: from your living room, what will you see?

Sometimes the answer confirms the plot you fell for. Sometimes it turns your heart towards another, less photogenic in its listing but better able to carry the house you want to live in. Either way, you decide with full knowledge of the facts.

Everyone looks at a plot through the lens of their own trade. Ours is building a villa on it.

The estate agent knows the market, the surveyor measures the plot, the notary (notaire) secures the sale, the architect draws: each has a role. But it is by building that you learn what a slope, an access road or the ground itself really demands of a house. Since 1993, we have done both: design, then build. And that eye matters before you sign: unlike buying a house, buying a building plot in principle gives you no cooling-off period, except in a subdivision that requires a development permit (permis d’aménager).

A builder’s eye

Nine questions we ask of every plot before we draw a villa on it.

Here is what we examine, on site and on the plans. Keep this list: it will serve you on every plot you visit, with or without us.

How many square metres of footprint does this plot allow?

A figure listings rarely give, and one that caps the size of your villa. In UFb3, Èze’s main detached-house sector (zone UF of the metropolitan local zoning plan, or PLU métropolitain), ground coverage is limited to 30% of the plot, or 25% within the areas marked out on the zoning map, with a setback of 3 metres from neighbouring boundaries. A pool rising more than one metre above natural ground level is included in this calculation. In UFb4 and UFc1: 20% and 15% respectively, with a setback of 5 metres.

What will you see from the living room?

A view is judged from the level you will live on, not from the top of the plot. In UFb3, UFb4 and UFc1, height is in principle limited to 7 metres to the eaves, and the frontal height (hauteur frontale), measured from the lowest point of the house, to 8.5 metres: on a hillside, it is often this frontal height that sets the number of levels. Below the avenue des Diables Bleus, view easements (servitudes de vue) also cap the height of certain buildings.

Is the villa you have in mind allowed there?

The rules on external appearance shape your house too. In zone UF, roofs are in round barrel tiles; the flat roof terrace, allowed in UFb3, UFb4 and UFc1, is treated as a fifth façade. Lime render, no pure white over large surfaces, and no white or bright blue pool basin. Most of these neighbourhoods lie within a listed site (site inscrit): the state heritage architect (Architecte des Bâtiments de France) is consulted, and work may begin only four months after the application is filed. Near the Castellar oppidum or the church, that architect’s approval may be required.

Is the plot in a red zone?

Èze is covered by a ground movement risk prevention plan, approved in 2003 and revised in 2015. In the red zone, new construction is in principle prohibited. In the blue zone, you may build, subject to requirements tailored to the hazard: landslide, rockfall, gullying. A large share of the detached-house sectors falls within one or other of these zones. The classification is checked plot by plot, on the plan’s map.

What does the ground tell you?

On the Géorisques map, Èze’s residential neighbourhoods show mostly medium exposure to clay shrink-swell, high in places: the seller of a buildable plot must therefore give you a preliminary geotechnical study (étude géotechnique préalable). It describes the site, not your house: the foundations of your villa are decided with the design. In the blue zone of the risk prevention plan, studies define the protective measures. Finally, Èze is in seismic zone 4: a new house there must comply with earthquake-resistant building rules.

What will the slope cost?

A slope offers levels, terraces, often the view; it also calls for retaining structures. In zone UF, a house on a hillside is, as a general rule, set parallel to the contour lines; a retaining wall may not exceed 3 metres in height, and successive walls are separated by planted terraces (restanques) at least 1.5 metres wide. In UFb3, at least 45% of the plot must remain unsealed open ground. In a classified woodland area (espace boisé classé), all land clearing is prohibited.

How will the machinery get in?

A lane that is charming by car can become a real issue for construction machinery. In zone UF, the rules put no figure on the minimum road width: access must suit the project and allow fire engines through. The metropolitan authority (Métropole) favours letting rainwater soak into the ground; if water is discharged, from 300 m2 of sealed surface it requires retention of around 80 litres per m2. Along the stream valleys (vallons) marked on the plan, a strip of 2.50 metres on either side of the centre line remains unbuildable.

Has the permit been granted, or is it beyond challenge?

A third party can challenge a permit in court for two months from the first day it is continuously displayed on the plot; without proper display, that period does not start to run. The mayor can also withdraw it within three months if it is unlawful. A permit has a period of validity, and it can be transferred to the buyer only on application to the town hall, with the agreement of its holder. The conditions that protect you are written into the preliminary contract (avant-contrat), with your notary (notaire).

Does the sea set rules too?

Èze is subject to the Coastal Law (loi Littoral), as detailed in the Alpes-Maritimes regional planning directive (directive territoriale d’aménagement). Most of the town’s land lies in zone Nlr (breaks in development, remarkable natural areas): no villa can be built there. Outside built-up areas, the coastal strip, 100 metres deep, is in principle unbuildable, and properties bordering the public maritime domain (domaine public maritime) are subject to a pedestrian right of way (servitude de passage des piétons), 3 metres wide. A sea view does not make a building plot.

None of these questions is a reason to give up on a plot. A slope can offer a view that flat land never will; an existing permit is a valuable starting point. But every one of these questions will come up one day.

Before you sign, it is a question, and it has an answer. Afterwards, it is a constraint.

Rules cited: the metropolitan local zoning plan (PLU métropolitain) of the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, approved on 25 October 2019 (general provisions, zone UF and the book of architectural requirements, or cahier des prescriptions architecturales, in their version resulting from simplified amendment no. 3 of 11 July 2025; general revision under way), Èze’s natural hazard risk prevention plan for ground movement (prefectoral order of 23 May 2003, revised on 16 February 2015), the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur’s rainwater requirements (updated 7 March 2024), the listed site (site inscrit) “Littoral de Nice à Menton” (1973), the surroundings of the Castellar oppidum and of the church of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption (historic monuments), the Coastal Law (loi Littoral) and the Alpes-Maritimes regional planning directive (directive territoriale d’aménagement, 2003), the pedestrian right of way along the coast, Géorisques (October 2026), the Planning Code (code de l’urbanisme), the Environment Code (code de l’environnement), the Construction and Housing Code (code de la construction et de l’habitation). The trends given by sector come from our own reading of the official maps, not from a published statistic. The rules vary from one zone to another: every plot must be checked.

These questions are not settled by reading a listing. They are settled on site, plans in hand. That is exactly what we do during a visit.

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From plot to villa

What a plot becomes, when you know how to read it.

A slope, a view, an orientation: every plot sets its own conditions. In these villas, the house began with the plot. What these photos no longer show (earthworks, retaining structures, the structural frame), you will see on our building sites, which we open to visitors at every stage of construction.

  • Villa with tiled roofs, a large timber terrace and a pool, set against stone terrace walls, facing the hills and mountains.

    Soléa

    Roquefort-les-Pins

    The plotStone terraces (restanques), facing the mountains.

    The answerThe villa backs onto the stone walls; the terrace and pool open onto the landscape.

  • Contemporary hillside villa: glazed openings over two floors, stone cladding, a glass-edged terrace and a curved infinity pool above the greenery.

    Sillage

    The plotA slope facing the landscape.

    The answerThe terrace and pool reach out towards the view, above the lower level.

  • Single-storey villa with stone pillars, full-height glazing and an infinity pool facing the hills.

    Rivage

    Roquefort-les-Pins

    The plotA distant view to capture.

    The answerOn a single level, the entrance, the living room, the terrace and the pool line up with the landscape: your eye travels through the house before your feet do.

Photographs of villas built by Midi Mas.

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Entrance façade of a white contemporary villa with a large black-framed glazed wall, pale stone cladding and wide roof overhangs.
Sillage, Vallauris: glazed wall, stone cladding and wide roof overhangs.

The plot visit

Let’s visit the plots that interest you, together. Before you sign, you will know which villa each one allows you to build.

Don’t take our word for it. Come and look, with us, on site.

  1. A first conversationYou tell us what you are looking for and the life you want to live in this house. We select the plots that could fit, and confirm their availability.
  2. Visiting the plotsOn each plot, we look with you at what the listing does not say: where the living room would sit, the path of the sun, the slope and what it would call for, the access, the neighbours, the planning rules.
  3. Our building sites, at every stageWe take you to see villas under construction, from structural work to finishes: what a real plot demands of a real house, and how we respond. You judge our work on the evidence, including what a finished villa no longer shows.

What you take away

  • a clear reading of every plot you visit;
  • the questions to ask of any plot;
  • a precise idea of the house that could stand there.

Have you spotted a plot elsewhere in our area? Mention it in the form: from our very first conversation, we will work out together how to look at it with the same eye before you decide to buy.

A plot is chosen in a few weeks. Your house will stand on it for decades.

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Before you write to us

Who this visit will be useful to, and who less so.

It will probably be useful to you if

  • you are looking for a plot on which to have your villa built, from 200 to 1,200 m2, in Èze or between Cannes and Monaco;
  • you have spotted a plot, or not yet: either way, now is the right time;
  • you would rather understand a plot before buying it than after;
  • you care as much about the quality of construction as about the location.

It will probably be less useful to you if

  • you are looking for a plot to invest in or resell, with no plan to build a house;
  • you want a house you can move into straight away: buying an existing villa will no doubt meet that need better;
  • you are searching outside our area.

Does the first list sound like you? What happens next is simple.

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Frequently asked questions

The questions to ask before you buy a plot.

Is your question not listed here? Keep it for our first conversation: we will answer it in person.

Are the plots presented here still available?

They were presented in 2024 and 2025, and some may have found a buyer since. Tell us what you are looking for: we will tell you which remain available and, with the seller’s agreement, arrange a visit to those that suit your project.

Why are prices not shown on this page?

Because a published price ages quickly: these details date from 2024 and 2025, and a price may have been revised since. In our very first conversation, before any visit, we give you the current price of each plot that interests you, with its availability and what it allows you to build. That is how you really compare prices: two plots at the same price can carry two villas with nothing in common.

If a permit has already been granted, do I have to build the house it describes?

No. A permit proves that a project was judged compliant with the planning rules on this plot: that is valuable information. But it was drawn for someone other than you. If it matches the house you want to live in, it can be transferred to you with its holder’s agreement, as long as it is valid: you then avoid having a new application processed. If not, it makes way for a new application for the villa you really want. We go through this with you, plot by plot.

I don’t have a plot yet. Is it too early to contact you?

No, it is actually the best time. You read a plot better when you already know how you want to live on it, and you avoid buying a plot that will not allow the house you imagined. We can help you choose the right plot.

I have spotted a plot that is not listed here. Can you look at it with me?

If it is within our area and you are thinking of having your villa built on it, we can advise you before you decide to buy, with a technical analysis of the plot if needed. Name its town in the form: we will discuss it in our very first conversation.

What happens after the visit?

You leave with a precise reading of the plots you visited: what each one allows, what it demands, the house it could carry. If one of them convinces you and our way of working suits you, we move on to designing your villa. If not, you will look at the next plots with a different eye.

I don’t live in the area. How does the visit work?

The first conversation takes place remotely: together, we shortlist the plots worth the journey, with their price and availability. The visit is then arranged for a date that fits your next stay on the French Riviera, and can include our current building sites. What matters to us is the town where the plot is, not where you live. Let us know your preferred language, too.

What comes next

The best time to look at a plot with a builder is before you buy it.

The first conversation is there to prepare your visit: understanding what you are looking for, selecting the plots that meet it, confirming their availability. To make it useful, have in mind:

  • the area that appeals to you: Èze, or another town between Cannes and Monaco;
  • the plot you have spotted, if any, and the date you have in mind for the preliminary sale contract (compromis de vente);
  • how you would like to live there, in a few words;
  • a timescale, even a rough one.

The form guides you through the rest, one question at a time.

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