Property tax in Nevers in 2026: one square metre of your home every year

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

The figure is surprising at first sight, and it deserves to be broken down. The municipal rate is the highest of the four towns whose tax analysis we have published this year, and it is backed by the most affordable property market of the four.

On unbuilt land, the municipal rate reaches 93,82 %, supplemented by a 2,61 % inter-municipal share. Owners of second homes also bear a residence tax (taxe d'habitation) at a municipal rate of 20,41 %, against 19,25 % before 2023.

2. Why did Nevers vote for a rise in 2023?

This is the fact that sets Nevers apart from most of the medium-sized towns we have analysed: here, the rise in the bill is not only mechanical. There was a vote, and it covers 3,01 points.

The trajectory of the municipal rate falls into three stages. Until 2020, the town applied 26,19 % on built property, a moderate level maintained year after year. In 2021, the abolition of the residence tax on main residences led the State to transfer the former departmental share of property tax to municipalities: the Nevers rate rose to 50,09 %, without any local decision, the gap of 23,90 points corresponding to the share of the Nièvre. Then, in the 2023 budget, the municipal council voted the rise to 53,10 %.

The budget context sheds light on the decision. Taxation accounts for 66,98 % of the operating revenue of the town, that is 42,7 million euros out of a 2025 initial budget of 82,2 million euros, voted at the municipal council of 19 December 2024. State grants and contributions cover only 23,82 %. A town that draws two thirds of its current revenue from local tax has few alternatives when its expenses rise: general expenses had jumped by 22,85 % in the financial year preceding the 2023 vote alone.

Politically, the approach was endorsed at the ballot box. Denis Thuriot was re-elected mayor of Nevers on 22 March 2026, with 44,8 % of the votes in the second round, ahead of Wilfrid Séjeau (41,9 %) and Xavier Morel (13,3 %), for a third term. The gap of less than three points with the left-wing list, on a turnout of 52,44 %, nevertheless indicates that the tax question remains debated locally.

3. How much do you pay, depending on your profile?

The amounts below are orders of magnitude, built from typical profiles anchored on real neighbourhoods of Nevers and on the prices per m² from our processing of DVF transactions. The last column is the one that matters for an owner: it relates the annual tax to the value of the property.

The studio in Le Mouësse illustrates a counter-intuitive mechanism: it is the cheapest property in the selection, and it is the one that bears the heaviest relative weight. The cadastral rental value of a small older home does not fall in proportion to its market value, because it was set on criteria of surface area and comfort, not on sale prices.

4. Simulator: your property tax in Nevers square metres

5. Why does the tax not follow property prices?

It is the source of most misunderstandings about this tax. The administration does not ask what your home is worth: it asks what rent it would have earned in 1970, given its weighted surface area, its category and its comfort features. This theoretical rent is then revalued every year by a coefficient set in the finance act.

Two consequences for an owner in Nevers. First, the national revaluation applies whatever happens: +7,1 % in 2023, +3,9 % in 2024, +1,7 % in 2025 and +0,8 % in 2026, that is around +14 % cumulatively for an identical home. Second, the stagnation of the market is not passed on: the average price of a flat in Nevers has risen by only 5 % in five years, while the tax base gained 14 % in four years.

6. Is Nevers the most heavily taxed town?

Comparing gross rates has its limits. Since 2021, all French municipal rates include the former departmental share: comparing a 2026 rate with a pre-reform rate makes no sense. Between municipalities, at the same date, the comparison remains valid.

The logic is consistent: the more affordable the local market, the more property tax weighs in proportion to the property value. Cadastral rental values, set on physical criteria, do not contract at the pace of market prices. For other trajectories, see our analyses of property tax in Mâcon, property tax in Mérignac and property tax in Saint-Raphaël.

7. What effect on the value of your property in Nevers?

The Nevers market is stable in level and fragmented internally. After 1 045 €/m² in 2021, the average price of a flat reaches 1 102 €/m² in 2026, with gaps ranging from 909 €/m² in Le Mouësse to 1 283 €/m² in Victor Hugo. The neighbourhoods of the south and west stay below 1 000 €/m², the historic centre and Colbert above 1 180 €/m².

For an investor reasoning in terms of net yield, property tax here absorbs the equivalent of a month and a half of rent, which is heavier than on a tight market where rent is proportionally higher. For an owner-occupier who sells, the effect is different: the tax does not reduce the price at which the property sells, but it shrinks the borrowing capacity of the buyer, since ownership costs enter into the calculation of the remaining disposable income.

In both cases, the variable an owner keeps control of is not a tax one: it is the asking price. On a market of 307 transactions a year, a badly set price costs more in time on the market than in negotiation.

To place the value of your property in Nevers based on the real transactions in your neighbourhood: