The average price per m² in Alfortville is 4 941 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 329 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of the banks of the Seine in Alfortville.
The average price recorded in Alfortville stands at 4 941 €/m². That average covers a housing stock overwhelmingly made up of flats, with apartments accounting for more than eight dwellings in ten. Internal gaps come mainly from the age of the buildings and the distance to the stations: the recent developments along the Seine and the surroundings of Le Vert de Maisons do not trade at the same level as the older blocks of the centre or the small buildings close to the railway tracks. Classification as a flood zone also weighs on certain sectors. This figure comes from the DVF database, that is the transactions actually registered with notaries.
Prices from the DVF file (Demandes de valeurs foncières, published by the DGFiP), transactions actually recorded at the notary at municipality level. Cross-referenced with the Notaires de France - INSEE indices. Learn more about our methodology.
After 5 383 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Alfortville reaches 4 941 €/m² in 2026, roughly -8 % over the period.
The Alfortville market rests first of all on its position: the municipality touches Paris to the south-east, a few minutes from the gare de Lyon on the RER D. That proximity feeds continuous demand from Parisian households looking for extra floor space without leaving the dense inner ring. The population, 45 531 inhabitants on a very tight territory, and the resulting density mechanically limit the scope for new building. Supply therefore remains constrained, which supports prices even in less active phases of the market, and concentrates transactions on the resale of existing apartments.
The second driver is the arrival of Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express at the Vert de Maisons station, shared with Maisons-Alfort. The southern districts and the surroundings of that station are the subject of urban renewal schemes and concentrate a share of the recent developments. Conversely, the flood constraint, which covers the entire territory, closely governs what can be built and to what height. The local market thus plays out between an expected gain in accessibility and a lasting regulatory ceiling on housing output.
Alfortville sits in the upper range of its inner suburb, above its immediate neighbours Vitry-sur-Seine and Créteil. The municipality remains, on the other hand, far behind Paris levels, even though the capital is less than ten kilometres away.
Alfortville owes its name to Charles Perrié, a restaurateur and freethinker who in the 1860s named the land at the confluence of the Seine and the Marne. The territory was then marshy and little built up. Two projects changed that: the Paris-Lyon railway line, built between 1845 and 1848, which cut the former municipality of Maisons-Alfort in two, then the Port-à-l'Anglais lock and weir, erected from 1861 to 1863. Workers and shops settled by the water, a hamlet formed in 1863, and the law of 1 April 1885 finally made Alfortville an independent municipality.
Water shaped the town as much as the railway. Alfortville suffered floods in 1876, then the great flood of the Seine in 1910, which submerged a large part of the built area. The risk has never gone away: the flood risk prevention plan for the Marne and the Seine was prescribed for the municipality on 20 April 1998 and approved on 28 July 2000, and the whole of the municipal territory is listed as an exposed zone. The war left other marks: on 4 June 1944, the Seine quays were bombed by the Allies, and some sixty houses were destroyed by German fire in the following month of August.
The third defining feature is Armenian. In the interwar years, several thousand survivors of the 1915 genocide settled in Alfortville, drawn by the factories and the cheap housing along the Seine. The community had the apostolic church of Saint-Paul-and-Saint-Pierre built, in the Saint-Pierre sector: work began on 10 July 1929 and the building was consecrated on 23 February 1930. That presence still shapes local community and cultural life. The rest of the urban fabric densified in waves, between small prewar blocks, postwar estates and recent schemes along the quays, which today gives a compact and very densely populated town.
Alfortville has 45 531 inhabitants. According to INSEE, France's national statistics institute, the municipal stock approaches 23 800 dwellings, of which 92,1 % are main residences: the town is lived in year-round, it has no second-home vocation. Apartments account for 85,2 % of the stock and houses for around 10,5 %. Again according to INSEE, tenants make up 66,4 % of households against 31,5 % owners, a low proportion that reflects the weight of the rental stock, both social and private. Buyers are therefore mainly first-time buyers and Paris-region families looking for a one- or two-bedroom flat a few minutes from Paris, along with Parisian households looking for more floor space.
The average price recorded in Alfortville is 4 941 €/m². It is an average calculated on the sales registered in the DVF database, which records the transactions actually completed before notaries. It blends studios, large family apartments and the small number of houses the municipality has. Your property may depart markedly from it depending on the storey, the condition, and the presence of a lift, a balcony or a parking space.
The northern part of the municipality, around the Maisons-Alfort - Alfortville station and the Vert de Maisons sector, enjoys the best service and concentrates the highest values. The recent developments along the Seine, with open views and new-build fittings, also pull upwards. The south, closer to the railway land and industrial activity, along with the older blocks of the centre, sits behind.
The municipality has two RER D stations, Maisons-Alfort - Alfortville and Le Vert de Maisons, which put the gare de Lyon around ten minutes away. Five RATP bus lines complete the network, and Line 8 of the metro is accessible at Maisons-Alfort. The Vert de Maisons station is also due to receive Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express, a point buyers are following closely.
Yes, it should be looked at before signing. Set between the Seine and the Marne on an alluvial plain, the municipality is entirely covered by the flood risk prevention plan, prescribed on 20 April 1998 and approved on 28 July 2000. That document imposes building and development rules according to the zone. The seller must give you the statement of risks, and the insurance cover of the property is worth checking before making an offer.
The market is very largely made up of flats: according to INSEE, 85,2 % of dwellings are apartments and around 10,5 % houses. There are older detached homes in the inner streets, notably around the Saint-Pierre and Chantereine districts, but supply remains rare and goes quickly. If you are aiming for a house, you have to accept a longer search and often a renovation budget, since the local detached housing stock is old.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).