The average price per m² in Bezons is 4 029 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 5 559 €/m². About 164 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Bezons, on the banks of the Seine in the Val-d'Oise.
The average price recorded in Bezons stands at 4 029 €/m². That average covers a stock where apartments largely dominate: according to INSEE, the French national statistics office, flats account for 73,8 % of dwellings and houses 24,7 %, a dense suburban profile typical of the inner Paris ring. Renting weighs heavily, with 57,1 % tenants among main residences, including a significant share of social housing. Houses, rarer, sell at a markedly higher level: the average price recorded for houses and villas comes out at 5 559 €/m². Closeness to the Seine, access to the tram and the year of construction explain most of the gaps. The figures come from the DVF database, which records transactions actually registered before notaries.
House : 5 559 €/m²
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 Bezons market is carried by its position as an affordable gateway at the edge of the Hauts-de-Seine. On the boundary of the business department, the municipality captures demand from working people and first-time buyers who can no longer buy in Colombes, Courbevoie or Puteaux, but want to stay within reach of La Défense. The arrival of the T2 tram in 2012 strengthened that appeal, and the population has grown by about 14,3 % in five years according to INSEE, a brisk pace that feeds housing demand.
On the supply side, the conversion of the industrial banks continues to produce new schemes along the Seine, while the weight of social housing maintains a large rental stock. That twofold momentum, urban renewal on one side, Paris-region land pressure on the other, supports values. The best-placed properties, close to the tram and the redeveloped quays, stand clearly apart from the older fabric and the large housing complexes, which widens the price range within a single municipality.
Backing onto the Hauts-de-Seine, Bezons sits above its neighbour Argenteuil and at the level of Houilles, but remains noticeably more affordable than Colombes, on the other side of the bridge, closer to La Défense.
A simple village under the Ancien Régime, Bezons was organised around a church dedicated to Saint Fiacre, consecrated in 1507. The town passed to the Bazin family, whose Marie Chanterel married in 1580 the Champagne physician Claude Bazin; ennobled under Marie de Médicis, the line produced a marshal of France, Jacques Bazin de Bezons, in 1709. The municipality held a well-known fair each year, famous enough to inspire plays at the end of the seventeenth century. Set on the banks of the Seine, the site drew painters and writers in the nineteenth century, among them Guy de Maupassant and the landscape painter Charles-François Daubigny.
The second half of the nineteenth century turned the village into an industrial town. The banks hosted a rubber works from 1863, the production of telephone equipment, shipyards and then chemical plants, with the manufacture of materials such as Bakelite and Cellophane, before Rhône-Poulenc set up there. The population jumped by about 60 % between 1871 and 1891, which went along with the building of schools, the town hall and urban facilities. That past of factories along the water lastingly marked the landscape and the social fabric of the town.
The deindustrialisation of the late twentieth century freed vast brownfield sites along the Seine. Bezons converted them into an office district, with the River Ouest office building, on the quai Voltaire, which long housed the headquarters of the IT group Atos. The opening of the T2 tram terminus at the pont de Bezons, in 2012, opened up the municipality by linking it directly to the La Défense business district and to Paris, whereas no metro, RER or railway station serves its territory.
According to INSEE, Bezons has 36 434 inhabitants for 16 137 dwellings, of which 91,0 % are main residences: second homes are almost absent, at less than 1 %. The stock is largely made of apartments, with 73,8 % flats against 24,7 % houses. Among households in main residences, 41,6 % are owners and 57,1 % tenants, including a high proportion of social housing. The population has grown by about 14,3 % in five years, carried by new schemes and by the conversion of the riverbanks. Buyers are mainly first-time purchasers and working people employed at La Défense or in the neighbouring office hubs, looking for an apartment more affordable than in the Hauts-de-Seine, with the T2 tram as an access advantage.
The average price recorded is 4 029 €/m², calculated from transactions registered before notaries and published in the DVF database. It is a municipal average, mixing the small apartment bought by buyers priced out elsewhere in the Paris region and the suburban house. The average price recorded for houses and villas reaches 5 559 €/m². Closeness to the Seine, access to the T2 tram towards La Défense, the floor level and the year of construction explain most of the gaps. A serious valuation is set against comparable sales, not the average.
The town is organised between the banks of the Seine, where the conversion of the former brownfield sites has given rise to an office district around River Ouest and the pont de Bezons, an older centre mixing small apartment blocks and shops, and more residential pockets of houses. The new schemes on the banks, close to the tram, do not sell at the same level as the older fabric or the large social housing complexes. The distance to the T2 stop and the view over the Seine weigh clearly on prices.
No metro, RER or railway station serves Bezons directly. The link with Paris runs through the T2 tram, whose terminus has been at the pont de Bezons since 2012: the line reaches La Défense in a few minutes, then continues to the Porte de Versailles. Bus routes complete the service towards Argenteuil and the neighbouring stations. That dependence on the tram and the car gives value to closeness to the stop and to parking.
Supply is unbalanced in favour of apartments. According to INSEE, houses account for only 24,7 % of dwellings, against 73,8 % flats. They are concentrated in the residential areas, often as town houses or post-war bungalows, with varying floor areas and plots. Sale references there are fewer and the gap in price per square metre with apartments is marked, which makes valuing a house more dependent on its condition, its plot and its location than on the municipal average.
Bezons belongs to the Paris conurbation classified as a tight housing area, which brings a tax on vacant dwellings and allows an increase in the housing tax on second homes. Letting furnished tourist accommodation requires a declaration at the town hall. As everywhere, a sale requires an up-to-date set of surveys, and the energy performance of the dwelling weighs more and more in negotiations. The local urban plan also governs extensions and new building.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).