Service area: the Gironde

Bordeaux

33000, 33100, 33200, 33300, 33800

Capital of the Gironde and the heart of our service area, Bordeaux holds a remarkably varied building stock: UNESCO-listed 18th-century stone buildings, suburban échoppes, and new districts risen along the Garonne.

Mérignac

33700

Gironde's second-largest commune by population, Mérignac combines vast residential estates, extensive business parks and a dense town centre. Locksmithing needs vary considerably from one neighbourhood to the next.

Pessac

33600

Pessac combines a busy town centre, very large university campuses and extensive residential neighbourhoods. Its strong student presence creates an unusual rhythm of housing turnover.

Talence

33400

Bordering Bordeaux directly to the south, Talence is shaped by the university presence and by a housing stock that mixes échoppes (traditional single-storey Bordeaux stone houses), small apartment buildings and student residences.

Bègles

33130

A former industrial town in the midst of change, Bègles brings together workers' échoppes (traditional single-storey Bordeaux stone houses), former industrial sites converted into lofts, and new developments along the Garonne.

Le Bouscat

33110

A residential commune bordering Bordeaux to the north-west, Le Bouscat is characterised by high-quality individual housing and well-preserved older buildings.

Bruges

33520

Bruges is one of the metropolitan communes where new construction has most transformed the landscape, with entire neighbourhoods built in the space of some fifteen years.

Cenon

33150

On the right bank, Cenon combines a residential hillside overlooking the Garonne with apartment-housing neighbourhoods undergoing urban renewal.

Villenave-d'Ornon

33140

South of the metropolitan area, Villenave-d'Ornon is a sprawling commune where individual housing remains the majority, despite rapid densification along the corridors served by the tram.

Saint-Médard-en-Jalles

33160

To the west of the metropolitan area, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles is a very extensive commune, organised into distinct villages and neighbourhoods amid the pine woods, where the detached house is the rule.

Gradignan

33170

A green, park-like commune south of the metropolitan area, Gradignan lines up leafy residential neighbourhoods, student residences on the edge of the campus and a redeveloped town centre.

Lormont

33310

Between the Garonne and the hillside, Lormont layers an old riverside village with large apartment-housing districts that have been thoroughly renewed over the past twenty years.

Arcachon

33120

A seaside town with four urban 'seasons', Arcachon has a profile unique in Gironde: period villas in the Ville d'Hiver, seafront co-owned buildings and a very high proportion of second homes.

La Teste-de-Buch

33260

The most populous commune on the Bay and one of the largest in France by area, La Teste-de-Buch stretches from its busy town centre to the villas of Pyla-sur-Mer, taking in vast residential estates and the port along the way.

Gujan-Mestras

33470

The oyster-farming capital with its seven ports, Gujan-Mestras is also one of the Bay's most heavily built communes in recent years: new housing estates and traditional houses sit side by side.

Libourne

33500

A sub-prefecture of Gironde at the confluence of the Isle and the Dordogne, Libourne is a bastide market town surrounded by the vineyards of Pomerol and Saint-Émilion.

Langon

33210

A sub-prefecture and the main hub of South Gironde, Langon serves a vast rural hinterland between the Garonne, the Graves vineyards and the pine forest of the Landes girondines.