The average price per m² in Aurillac is 1 367 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,0 to 1,6 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 8 % over 5 years and rose 1,9 % over the last 12 months, with about 324 transactions per year.
Illustration of Aurillac, prefecture of the Cantal, between the Jordanne river and the Cantal mountains.
Apartments in Aurillac sell at an average price of around 1 367 €/m², based on actual recorded transactions (DVF data, the French database of notarised property sales). The prefecture of the Cantal has a feature its size does not suggest: it is a genuine market for flats, with 324 apartment sales a year against 101 houses. Prices run from about 1 122 €/m² in Marmiers to 1 539 €/m² in République, a gap of 37 %. Houses, at 1 722 €/m², trade 26 % above apartments.
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 1 260 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Aurillac reaches 1 367 €/m² in 2026, roughly +8 % over the period.
Change in the average price per m² over twelve months, district by district, based on the most recent DVF sales.
The average price per m² for an apartment in each district of Aurillac covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Aurillac market is that of a rural prefecture away from the main routes, but with a substantial stock of flats. With an average price of 1 367 €/m² for an apartment and 324 sales a year, Aurillac is among the most affordable towns in the country, alongside Belfort, Châteauroux or Roanne. The price gains 8 % over five years and 1,9 % over twelve months: the rise is real but slow, and the market has seen no turnaround.
The gap between districts, 37 %, stays moderate, and the ranking is surprising. The administrative centre of République and the Limagne hillside carry the top of the market, at around 1 530 €/m². The medieval heart of Saint-Géraud, eighth out of ten at 1 205 €/m², and the social housing districts of the south close the range, Marmiers at 1 122. Two sectors call for cautious reading: Aristide Briand falls back by 15,8 % over twelve months, but on only eighteen annual sales, which makes the average sensitive; and Marmiers, the heart of the Aurillac Sud priority neighbourhood, is engaged in an urban renewal programme worth 39 million euros that will redraw its housing stock in the years to come.
Aurillac compared with the major French cities, on the average price per m² for an apartment. The comparison is mechanically lopsided: the prefecture of the Cantal is a rural mid-sized town market, with no metropolitan pressure.
Aurillac was born around a monastery. Count Géraud, recorded from 856 onwards, founded a Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Clement around 885, from which the present Saint-Géraud abbey church descends. The town became the capital of the Haute-Auvergne, then the prefecture of the Cantal in 1794. Excavations carried out in 2013, ahead of a housing scheme, uncovered a subsoil that tells fifteen centuries of history around the abbey: they are the origin of the regeneration programme of the Saint-Géraud district, place Saint-Géraud and rue du Monastère.
The town sits at about 680 metres of altitude, in a sedimentary basin at the foot of the Cantal mountains, crossed from south to north by the Jordanne. The château Saint-Étienne looks over the urban fabric to the north. The Jean-Alric stadium, about nine thousand seats, anchors rugby in the life of the town, and the international street theatre festival fills it every late August since 1986.
The geography of prices does not follow the picture postcard. The medieval heart, around the abbey church, is the cheapest sector of the centre. It is République, the administrative and shopping centre around the place du Square and the rue des Carmes, and Limagne, the hillside of detached houses in the north-east, that carry the top of the market. The social housing districts of the south, Marmiers first among them, close the range. In Aurillac, the ranking reads through the quality of the building stock, not through the distance to the centre.
The Aurillac market has a feature its size does not suggest: 324 apartments a year are sold here against 101 houses, a ratio of 3,2 in favour of flats that is rare for a rural prefecture of 26 000 residents. It attracts first-time buyers and public sector staff in the centre and in Saint-Eugène, families in the detached housing of Limagne, Ponétie and the west, and buy-to-let investors in the small units of the old centre. The second feature shapes how to buy: beyond the studio, floor area barely sets the price per square metre. The studio and the T1 come out at 1 549 €/m², but the T2 at 1 323, the T3 at 1 367 and the T4 and larger at 1 320 sit within 3,5 % of each other. The trade-off between a two-room and a five-room flat is therefore settled on the total budget, not on the price per square metre.
The average price in Aurillac is 1 367 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 044 to 1 624 €/m² depending on the district. Property portals show asking prices, 10 to 20 % above the prices actually recorded.
République, the administrative and shopping centre around the place du Square and the rue des Carmes, at 1 539 €/m², followed very closely by Limagne, the north-eastern hillside, at 1 529. The gap with the most affordable district, Marmiers, is 37 %. That is a moderate gap: the Aurillac market is tightly grouped.
Because the medieval heart, around the Saint-Géraud abbey church, is made of very dense older buildings, in small units, currently being upgraded. It comes out at 1 205 €/m², while République, its immediate neighbour, costs 28 % more, at 1 539. That is the opposite of what is seen in most towns, and it is the most useful fact to know before buying in Aurillac.
Per square metre, it barely matters beyond the studio. The studio and the T1 sell at 1 549 €/m², but the T2 (1 323), the T3 (1 367) and the T4 and larger (1 320) sit within 3,5 % of each other. In most markets, the large apartment is clearly discounted. Here, your trade-off is settled on the total budget and on the service charges, not on the price per square metre.
Yes, by 26 %: 1 722 €/m² against 1 367. But the market is clearly more liquid on the apartment side, with 324 sales a year against 101 houses. Watch the calculation convention: the price per square metre of a house covers the built floor area whereas the value paid includes the land, which mechanically inflates the figure.
Start from the district, then from the year and the nature of the building, which explain most of the gap here: the Limagne hillside of detached houses costs 27 % more than the dense old centre of Saint-Géraud. Do not reason by layout type, which barely discriminates. Then adjust for condition, energy rating, lift and parking. The Immover estimator draws on the actually recorded sales closest to your address.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).