The average price per m² in Centre-ville (Alençon) is 1 273 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,0 to 1,5 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 10 % over 5 years and fell 1,2 % over the last 12 months, with about 63 transactions per year.
The centre of Alençon, from the castle of the dukes to the prefecture, on both banks of the Sarthe.
Apartments in the Centre-ville district, in Alençon, sell at an average price of around 1 273 €/m², based on prices actually recorded (DVF transactions, notarised sales). Between 961 and 1 529 €/m² covers half of all sales, the gap depending on the sub-area, the year of construction, the floor and the condition of the property. Five-year change: +10 %.
Prices from the DVF file (Demandes de valeurs foncières, published by the DGFiP), transactions actually recorded at the notary, aggregated at district level using the IRIS zoning of INSEE. Cross-referenced with the Notaires de France - INSEE indices. Learn more about our methodology.
After 1 153 €/m² in 2021, the average price in the Centre-ville district of Alençon reaches 1 273 €/m² in 2026, around +10 % over the period.
Grande Rue, rue aux Sieurs, cours Clemenceau and place de la Halle au Blé, the main retail hub of the town.
Prefecture, station, museum of Fine Arts and Lace, Cour carrée de la Dentelle, the shrine on rue Saint-Blaise.
Castle of the dukes, church of Saint-Léonard, basilica of Notre-Dame, buildings in Alençon granite, banks of the Sarthe and the Briante.
The centre of Alençon, around the corn exchange and the castle. Google Maps.
This page covers the whole of the centre of Alençon, and the grouping is not a matter of convenience: the statistical boundary cuts the old heart in two. The castle of the dukes, the corn exchange, the church of Saint-Léonard and the museum of Fine Arts and Lace fall in one area, but the basilica of Notre-Dame, the place de la Madeleine, the station and the rue Saint-Blaise fall in the other. Publishing two pages would have split the pedestrian old town down the middle.
The district therefore brings together two faces side by side. To the south-west, the medieval old town: the castle, the rue de la Juiverie, the rue des Lombards, the rue Bonette, the Maison des Sept Colonnes at the corner of the Grande Rue and the rue du Château, and the church of Saint-Léonard in flamboyant Gothic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, whose Saint-Martin tower goes back to the twelfth. To the north-east, the administrative and middle-class town of the nineteenth century: the prefecture, the basilica of Notre-Dame, the station, the boulevards Lenoir-Dufresne and de la République. It was here, at 50 rue Saint-Blaise, that Thérèse Martin was born on 2 January 1873, in a house that has become a shrine, with a chapel built between 1925 and 1928 after the canonisation.
This page also covers Montsort, on the south bank of the Sarthe, and that should be said plainly, because the area deserves more than a mention. Montsort is the original core of Alençon: the town grew in that bend of the river, and in Merovingian times it carried its name. There stand the church of Saint-Pierre, the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette built around 1680, the Sainte-Geneviève abbey founded in 1636, and an identity asserted right down to a Commune libre de Montsort, founded in 1957 on the model of the République de Montmartre. It was also by the rue du Mans, in Montsort, that the tanks of the 2nd Armoured Division entered the town on 12 August 1944. If the area has no page of its own, the reason is strictly statistical: its apartment market appears only in 2024 and 2025, and we do not publish a five-year trend when three years are missing.
Seven streets were checked by point-in-polygon across the district: the Grande Rue, the place de la Halle au Blé, the cours Clemenceau, the rue aux Sieurs, the rue du Jeudi, the rue Saint-Blaise and the rue du Mans. The district sits at 1 273 €/m², 7 % above the town-wide average, and it records sixty-three apartment sales a year, more than half the town's market. It gains 10 % over five years and falls back 1,2 % over twelve months.
The town centre is the Alençon market, in the literal sense: sixty-three apartment sales a year out of one hundred and twenty-one for the town. It is the only district where there is any choice in flats, and therefore the obligatory entry point for a first-time buyer as much as for an investor. The stock is very mixed, which is what the wide range of 961 to 1 529 €/m² says: it runs from the granite town house of the medieval quarter to the nineteenth-century bourgeois block near the prefecture, then to the Montsort suburb on the other bank. The size gradient is almost flat between the studio, the 2-room and the 3-room flat, all between 1 255 and 1 362 €/m², before dropping on 4-room and larger flats at 1 159: the large apartment is here the cheapest product per square metre. The point to watch is the condition of the old fabric, which the town is addressing precisely through a programmed housing improvement scheme, under Action Coeur de Ville, the national town-centre regeneration programme, targeted on the centre where vacancy and dilapidation are highest.
The average price in Centre-ville is 1 273 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 961 to 1 529 €/m² depending on the building, the floor and the condition.
No, it is covered here, and that is a constrained choice. Montsort is nevertheless the original core of Alençon, with its church of Saint-Pierre, its Sainte-Geneviève abbey of 1636 and its Commune libre founded in 1957. But its apartment market appears only in 2024 and 2025: three years out of five are missing, and we do not publish a trend that would be two-thirds interpolated. The area is next to the centre, from which only the bridges over the Sarthe separate it.
Because the statistical boundary cuts the old heart in two. The castle of the dukes, the corn exchange, the church of Saint-Léonard and the lace museum fall in one area, the basilica of Notre-Dame, the place de la Madeleine, the station and the rue Saint-Blaise in the other. Publishing two pages would have split the pedestrian old town down the middle, which would have made no sense for a buyer.
At 50 rue Saint-Blaise, in this district, on 2 January 1873. The family home is today the shrine dedicated to the Martin family, with a chapel built between 1925 and 1928 after the canonisation, from which the birth room can be seen through a window.
It is the only district in the town where liquidity is real, with sixty-three apartment sales a year, which makes resale readable. Rental demand is carried by the central location and by the public-sector jobs of the prefecture. The point to examine is the condition of the old fabric: the town is running a housing improvement scheme under Action Coeur de Ville, precisely because vacancy and dilapidation are highest there.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).