Property tax in Draguignan in 2026: the rate the town hall no longer votes on

1. What is the property tax rate in Draguignan in 2026?

Your property tax notice does not show a single rate, but a stack of lines voted by different authorities. The municipality decides only its own, which is also the heaviest. That single line is what is at stake when the town hall talks about the stability of its taxes.

2. Why is your notice rising when the town hall does not touch the rate?

The wording used every spring at the Draguignan town council is legally accurate: the town does not raise its rate. But announcing a stable rate and implying that the bill is stable are two different things.

The tax base is the cadastral rental value of your home, divided by two. It is a theoretical rent assigned by the tax authority according to the floor area, the address and the amenities. That value does not follow the property market: it follows a national coefficient voted every year in Parliament, indexed since 2018 on the harmonised index of consumer prices.

A second source of increase is not decided by the town hall either: the inter-municipal share. The rate voted by the Dracénie Provence Verdon inter-municipal authority went from 2,50 % to 3,00 % in 2022, and the GEMAPI tax appeared at the same period. That is what explains why the overall rate shown on your notice has gone up, even though the municipal line itself has never moved.

3. A frozen rate, but frozen at what level in the Var?

Stability is an effective communication argument because it compares the town with its own past. It says little about its position relative to neighbouring towns. The table below compares municipal rates alone (the line the town votes), not overall rates, so as to reason on identical terms.

This table tells a simple story. Draguignan has frozen its rate, but it froze it at a level above that of the coastal towns of the Var. For an identical rental value, a Draguignan owner therefore pays more on the municipal share than an owner in Le Muy, a few kilometres away and in the same inter-municipal authority. Stability shields the town from the charge of raising taxes; it says nothing about the starting point.

To place that level in a wider frame, you can read our analyses of the property tax in Fréjus, of the situation in Saint-Raphaël, of the cut voted in Nice and of the record rate in Marseille (44,54 %).

4. How much do you pay depending on your home?

The amounts below are order-of-magnitude reconstructions, anchored on real areas of Draguignan. Two homes of identical floor area in the same street can have appreciably different rental values depending on their condition and their amenities. They illustrate the concrete weight of the overall Draguignan rate by type of property.

These four profiles rest on areas with contrasting realities. The average price of an apartment in Draguignan stands at 2 190 €/m² in 2026 (DVF data processed by Immover, 2024-2025 transactions projected), a level well below that of the Var coast, with an old centre marked by high vacancy and more sought-after detached-housing districts on the hills. The cadastral rental value, for its part, does not follow those market gaps.

5. Simulator: the share that comes from the bases, not from the town hall

6. Draguignan, an inland town: the second-home paradox

Draguignan is not a seaside resort. Prefecture of the Var until 1974, a garrison town home to the military schools and close to the Canjuers camp, it is an inland town, turned towards the Verdon rather than towards the sea. Its housing stock reflects this: 84,3 % main homes, barely 2,7 % second homes, and a high vacancy rate of 13 % (2 866 dwellings), the mark of an older town-centre stock. Source: INSEE, 2023 census.

That is where the paradox lies. While the coastal towns apply a surcharge to second homes that account for a third of their stock, Draguignan applies the same 50 % surcharge to a tiny contingent. The measure brings in little, but it signals a position: the town ranks itself among the tight-market municipalities, those where the imbalance between housing supply and demand legally justifies that surcharge.

The political context confirms that continuity. Richard Strambio (centre-right independent) was re-elected mayor in the second round of the municipal elections of March 2026, with 50,64 % of the vote against the National Rally candidate, in a particularly tight contest. The vote on the 2026 budget and on the rates therefore falls to the council returned by that election: the 2026 municipal rate will be confirmed in the initial budget, and nothing at this stage points to a break with the freeze followed since 2021.

7. What impact on the value of your property?

Three observations to place the real effect of taxation on your property.

1. The level of the rate enters the calculation of an informed buyer. On a property at 250 000 €, a few hundred euros of annual property tax do not tip a purchase decision. But a buyer comparing Draguignan with a coastal town may factor in the difference in rates, above all on a property intended to be held for a long time. The real drivers of value remain the location, the condition of the property and its energy performance rating.

2. The inland market runs on different springs from the coast. In Draguignan, demand is driven by permanent residents, families and the military and administrative fabric, not by second-home buyers. The annual cost of holding, property tax included, therefore weighs above all in the decision of a household living in the property, more than in an investment logic.

3. The gaps between areas outweigh the tax effect. Between the old centre, marked by vacancy, and the detached-housing districts of the hills, the gap in price per m² runs into hundreds of euros. No municipal tax decision produces an effect of that order. The area weighs infinitely more than the rate.

To place your home precisely, see our page devoted to property prices per m² in Draguignan, broken down district by district from actual transactions.