The average price per m² in Beure is 1 767 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 14 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Beure, a village of the Doubs valley at the foot of the slopes, on the edge of Besançon.
The average price recorded in Beure stands at 1 767 €/m². This average rests on a low-volume market, around thirty sales registered over two years, and covers a housing stock made up almost entirely of detached homes: unlike neighbouring Besançon, the municipality consists mainly of owner-occupied individual houses. An older house in the village centre, a home on the estates built at the end of the 20th century and the occasional flat in a small block do not sit at the same level. The figures come from the DVF database, the French record of notarised property sales, which lists 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.
The Beure market is closely tied to that of the Besançon conurbation. The municipality does not live on an activity of its own: its demand comes from households working in Besançon and looking for a house in the near suburbs. Transaction volumes are low, a handful of sales a year, which leaves few points of comparison and makes averages sensitive to a few deals: a single atypical sale can move the municipal figure from one year to the next.
Two factors weigh on the coming years. On one side, the lasting appeal of a house with a garden on the edge of Besançon supports demand, in a context where building land is scarce: the municipality is hemmed in between the slopes and the Doubs, with little room to expand. On the other, a significant share of the stock was built before the 1970s: the energy retrofit of these dwellings is becoming a bargaining point and weighs on the worst-rated properties.
A residential municipality in the near southern suburbs of Besançon, Beure is read first against the central city, which is noticeably more expensive. On the scale of the Doubs, it sits between the urban hub of Besançon and small towns further from the conurbation such as Saint-Vit or Baume-les-Dames.
Beure occupies the left bank of the Doubs, a few kilometres south of Besançon, in a rocky amphitheatre opening onto the alluvial plain of the river. The site has been inhabited for a long time: a Gaulish road crossed the small valley, and the caves and then the gypsum quarries fixed the first settlements before the village established itself on the plain. The name of the municipality is recorded from the 13th century onwards, at a time when the village came under the lordship of Arguel.
From the 13th to the 19th century, the vine was the dominant activity; the winegrowers worked first for the archbishopric and for the merchant families of Besançon. Gypsum, quarried from the slopes over the same period, rounded out this economy. On the banks of the Doubs, in the Gouille area, a forge established as early as the 15th century used the power of the waterfall to work iron, an activity that continued until the 1880s before disappearing along with the vine.
Like other municipalities in the valley, Beure lost its farming and winegrowing character over the course of the 20th century to become a residential municipality. Attached to the Besançon conurbation, now Grand Besançon Métropole, it has grown through housing estates that accommodate households working in Besançon. The municipality today has around 1 300 inhabitants and lives to the rhythm of its neighbouring city rather than to any activity of its own.
According to INSEE, the French statistics institute, Beure has around 1 300 inhabitants and a little over 750 dwellings, the vast majority of them main residences; second homes are marginal here. The stock is dominated by the individual house, and two thirds of households own their home, one third rent. This profile shapes the market: buyers are mostly households from the Besançon area, first-time buyers and working people employed in Besançon who are looking for a house with a garden a few minutes from the centre, without city prices. The immediate proximity of the conurbation drives demand more than any activity of the municipality itself.
The average price recorded is 1 767 €/m², calculated from the transactions registered by notaries and published in the DVF database, the French record of notarised property sales. It is a municipal average covering a low volume of sales: it brings together very different situations, an older village house, a more recent home on a housing estate or the occasional flat. The condition of the property, the size of the plot, the aspect and the parking explain a good share of the gaps around this average.
The Beure market is first and foremost a market for houses. The municipal stock is overwhelmingly made up of detached homes, between older houses in the village centre and homes on the estates built in the second half of the 20th century. The supply of flats is limited and confined to a few small blocks, which leaves few points of comparison. A buyer looking for a flat will find more choice in Besançon, a few minutes away.
Beure offers a residential setting of houses with gardens at the foot of the slopes, in the Doubs valley, while remaining on the doorstep of Besançon. Buyers come here for an individual home that is harder to find in the central city, with quick access to the jobs, shops and services of the conurbation. In return, the volume of properties for sale is low and opportunities come up less often than in the city.
Beure is linked to Besançon by the road that follows the Doubs and by the voie des Mercureaux, the fast route towards the south of the department. This immediate proximity to the centre of the conurbation, a few kilometres away, is the first driver of demand: the municipality works as a residential suburb where people live while working in Besançon. This accessibility sustains interest in the houses of the municipality.
Older buildings deserve particular attention: a significant share of the housing dates from before the 1970s, which makes the energy performance certificate and the condition of the roof and the joinery decisive. The municipality lies in a steep-sided valley, between hillside and river: it is worth consulting the plan local d'urbanisme, the local planning scheme, and the exposure to hazards along the Doubs. Finally, on a small market a handful of sales are enough to move the averages, hence the value of a case-by-case valuation.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).