Two-bedroom apartment, Rue Grimaldi

The fourth floor is high enough that the windows clear the roofs opposite, which gives you a slice of Port Hercule instead of the block across the street. The market is directly below.

Rue Grimaldi is one of the busiest streets in Monaco. The double glazing does its work, but with a window open on a Saturday morning you will hear the traffic and the market below — that is the price of doing the shopping on foot. Inside, it is tidy without being newly done, the kind of flat you move into and leave alone.

The building is in the protected sector, so under loi 1.235 it can only be let to tenants who qualify — which most people arriving from outside Monaco do not. Whether you do is worth settling before a viewing instead of after one. Ask us and we will tell you where you stand.