Property tax in Nanterre in 2026: next to La Défense, but taxed separately

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

The Nanterre notice has five lines for built property, plus the household waste line. Only the first depends on the municipal council.

The additional taxes, 0,71 point in total, are the same across the whole region. In Nanterre, they account for 2,6 % of the bill. The household waste collection tax, voted by Paris Ouest La Défense, the public territorial establishment, stayed at 3,47 % from 2021 to 2025: that is half of what owners in Colombes pay (6,44 %).

2. Why did Nanterre raise its rate in 2022 and 2023?

The Nanterre rate rose two years in a row, then stabilised.

The 2023 rise came in the same year as the strongest revaluation of the bases since 1989, 7,1 %. For an owner, the two effects added up: the budget report acknowledged this, explaining that the rate rise could remain "measured" since it applied to revalued bases. It put its yield at 3,1 M€ and its cost at 30 € on average per home owner.

The same document describes a "paradoxical situation". Since 2016, all the growth in the tax on the added value of businesses (CVAE) generated on the territory has gone to the Métropole du Grand Paris. Since 2021, two thirds of the growth in the business property tax (CFE) have also been passed on to it. The compensation allocation the town receives in return, 156,4 M€ in 2023, is frozen over time: it does not grow when new businesses move in.

In 2024, the direct tax revenue of Nanterre reached nearly 88 M€, including 75,9 M€ of property tax on built and unbuilt land, paid by households and businesses alike (2025 budget orientation report).

3. Why do owners pay more in Nanterre than in Puteaux or Courbevoie?

The contrast with the immediate neighbours speaks louder than a departmental ranking.

Nanterre therefore sits in the lower part of the departmental table, far from Le Plessis-Robinson (37,06 %), the most heavily taxed, and fairly far from Marnes-la-Coquette (13,86 %), the least taxed. Its low household waste collection tax even places it below Suresnes and La Garenne-Colombes once the full bill is calculated. At national level, its rate is well below the median of French municipalities, 35,34 %.

The gap with Puteaux and Courbevoie is a matter of history. These two municipalities, which host most of the towers of La Défense, long relied on business taxation for their budgets, which allowed them to keep very low household rates before the creation of the metropolitan authority. Nanterre, whose business districts are more recent, did not benefit from the same legacy. On a base of 3 000 €, the annual gap with Puteaux exceeds 260 €.

To compare with other towns of the inner suburbs, see our articles on property tax in Boulogne-Billancourt, in Colombes and in Saint-Denis.

4. Is a new-build home exempt from property tax in Nanterre?

Since the reform of the residence tax (taxe d'habitation), a municipality can no longer abolish the temporary exemption for new homes: it can only reduce it, to between 40 % and 90 % of the base. Nanterre chose the lowest rate. The town also applies it to business premises and cites the example of the Arboretum office building, whose opening should bring it around 2 M€.

The measure directly concerns buyers in recent developments, in Les Groues, around Nanterre-La Folie station and in the République area.

Household waste benefits from no exemption: the household waste collection tax line appears on the notice from the first year.

5. Simulator: your property tax compared with the neighbours of La Défense

With a base of 3 000 €, the Nanterre bill comes to around 815 €, of which 69 € is attributable to the 2022 and 2023 rises. The same property would pay around 553 € in Puteaux and 911 € in the median municipality of the department.

6. How much do you pay, profile by profile?

The amounts below are orders of magnitude built from typical profiles anchored on real neighbourhoods of Nanterre and on the prices per m² from our processing of DVF data, the French notarised sales database. The tax bases used, from 48 to 55 € per m² depending on the type of property, are average assumptions.

The "new" profile illustrates the effect of the exemption limited to 40 %: the tax for the first two years is not zero, it is reduced by around a third.

In Nanterre, property tax concerns a minority of resident households. According to INSEE, the French statistics institute, 27,6 % of the 40 936 main residences are occupied by their owner, 69,4 % by tenants, including 44,9 % in social housing. The stock of 44 035 homes is 86,9 % flats (2023 census).

7. Can the rate move during the new term of office?

The list led by Raphaël Adam, who had succeeded Patrick Jarry, mayor from 2004 to 2023, won 10 147 votes and 40 seats out of 53 in the second round. It was ahead of Hélène Matouk (35,59 %, 9 seats) and Nicolas Huyghe (16,48 %, 4 seats). Turnout stood at 41,75 % (French Ministry of the Interior).

Budget margins remain narrow. The 2025 budget orientation report expected gross savings of around 19 M€, for outstanding debt capped at 193 M€, that is a debt repayment capacity of around 10 years, below the national reference ceiling of 12 years. The same document pointed to a "cut" by the State of more than 5 M€ in the 2025 budget.

One point concerns owners who do not live in their property: in 2024 Nanterre raised the surcharge on the residence tax on second homes from 20 % to 40 %, on a municipal rate of 14,97 %. With 984 second homes, that is 2,2 % of the stock, the revenue remains modest: 1,8 M€ in 2024, a little under 2 M€ expected in 2025.

8. What effect on the value of your property in Nanterre?

The Nanterre market peaked at 5 762 €/m² in 2021 before falling back to 5 186 €/m² in 2025, then stabilising (Immover processing, DVF data). The gaps between neighbourhoods remain narrow, from around 4 320 €/m² in Petit-Nanterre to nearly 5 746 €/m² in République, driven by the major urban projects.

On a 3-room flat of 65 m² in the Centre, valued at around 348 000 €, a property tax of 850 € represents 0,24 % of the value per year. That is more than in Boulogne-Billancourt, at around 0,17 %, but markedly less than in Saint-Denis, at around 0,45 %. In a comparison between municipalities of western Greater Paris, property tax weighs little against the price gap: it is not enough to explain the decline of the market, which stems first from mortgage rates.

For an investor, the calculation changes slightly. The advertised rent for a flat reaches 23,80 €/m² per month in Nanterre (2025 rent map, French Ministry of Housing), that is a gross yield close to 5,4 % at the average price, of which property tax absorbs around one twentieth. An estimate calibrated at neighbourhood level remains the best starting point:

For the breakdown by area, our page on property prices per m² in Nanterre gives the price of each of the eight neighbourhoods covered, including République.