I search for and find your dream home on the Côte d'Albâtre, and I stay with you from the first search through to the renovation. Local, dependable, and in your language.
Send your requestPlenty of buyers think about Normandy without ever hearing of its quieter chalk coast: the Côte d’Albâtre between Dieppe and Le Havre. Among small seaside communities and peaceful villages you’ll find a large stock of houses and apartments — renovated or ready for your ideas, as a main home or a holiday retreat — with demand still markedly lower than in Lower Normandy.
The chalk coastline of the Côte d’Albâtre stretches for some 90 kilometres between Dieppe and Le Havre. Beyond its small coastal communities and villages, pastures and wide flax fields shape the Pays de Caux; ahead lie beaches, cliffs and little harbours. Norman stone and timber craftsmanship meets a light that has drawn painters since Monet.
Most people know the white cliffs only from Étretat. Along our coast the chalk runs the whole way between Dieppe and Le Havre — grass-topped cliffs, wide shingle beaches and small idyllic coastal communities and villages nearby.
Côte d'Albâtre tourism office
Long walks along beautiful beaches that are often almost empty — ideal with a dog too, subject to local and seasonal rules.
Seine-Maritime Tourisme
The celebrated oysters of Veules-les-Roses, seafood and fish that can travel from the sea to your plate on the very same day.
The Newhaven–Dieppe ferry brings southern England directly onto the coast in about four hours. Paris is around two hours away, while Belgium, the Netherlands and the rest of Europe are within easy driving reach.
DFDS ferry Newhaven–Dieppe
Apartments, half-timbered houses, longères and manor estates — renovated or in need of work, as a main home or holiday retreat.
A large property stock still meets markedly lower demand than in Lower Normandy — an attractive starting point for buyers.
The Côte d’Albâtre offers renovated properties and opportunities requiring work for many different plans — as a main home or holiday retreat. Not every property is immediately ready to occupy or already matches your vision. If you wish, I help bring it up to the standard you want as quickly as practical, with the right local specialists.
A traditional Pays de Caux home with dark oak framing, pale infill — under thatch, slate or tiles — from well-maintained examples to houses needing renovation.
The low, elongated longère of the Pays de Caux in flint, brick and timber — found in many conditions and often full of potential.
The main house with several smaller half-timbered buildings on the grounds — guests, workshop or rental, plus land.
An apartment in a small coastal community or village — an easy-to-manage main home or holiday retreat.
I live in La Chapelle-sur-Dun, three kilometres from the sea, and work as a property adviser with CapiFrance. From here, I coordinate your search and help you navigate local conditions and contacts with confidence:
Gordon Langmann
Property adviser with CapiFrance · home in La Chapelle-sur-Dun, 3 km from the sea
My CapiFrance profile“Call me and tell me what you are looking for — and I will take care of it.”
I’m Gordon Langmann, German, and I live in La Chapelle-sur-Dun on the Côte d’Albâtre, three kilometres from the sea, between Dieppe and Fécamp. For over fifteen years I have looked after international customers in the technology sector — many stakeholders, several countries and large sums at stake, along with technical, legal and tax questions that I solved together with my clients. Architecture, renovation and property have occupied me for more than twenty years, and I know the practice first-hand: I have bought, renovated and resold houses myself, and I let holiday homes. I speak your language and the language of the agents, notaires and tradespeople here. That is why my work does not end at the key handover: if there is still something to do on your house, I will gladly make sure it turns out the way you imagined. Whether you come from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK or France — or from further afield: I look forward to your call.
I join viewings, price talks and notaire appointments — in French, and with an eye for the details that cost money later.
I know the agents, notaires, tradespeople and architects between Dieppe and Le Havre personally. I make those calls myself.
Timber frame, roof, damp, outbuildings: I look closely before you commit — as a buyer, seller and landlord I know what matters.
Coordinating trades, monitoring progress, looking after the house: I stay your contact long after the keys change hands.
Individually or combined — from the first search until long after the keys are handed over. The property search and the purchase support run through CapiFrance; renovation & care and settling in I handle personally. In our first call I tell you which route fits your request.
I actively search to your brief.
Safely through the French buying process.
Your contact when you can’t be here.
So you feel at home quickly.
Tell us what you are looking for: setting, property type, condition, budget and timing. It takes two minutes.
We speak with local agents, use our network and include our small portfolio where it matches your brief.
We support viewings and the purchase. Afterwards, if wanted, we coordinate local craftspeople and renovation work — including while you are away.
On our events platform Discovering Normandy you will find events, markets and day-trip ideas along the coast — a great way to get to know the region before you buy.
We reply within 24 hours — in German, English or French, whichever you prefer. Free and without obligation.
Our main service is a personal property search. Our small portfolio is published exclusively on the CapiFrance profile. Go to our portfolio