The average price per m² in Blagnac is 3 020 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 219 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Blagnac, on the edge of Toulouse.
The average price of apartments in Blagnac stands at 3 020 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually registered with notaries. This average covers a stock split between blocks of flats and detached homes: according to INSEE, the French statistics institute, apartments account for 69,4 % of dwellings and houses for 30,1 %. The internal gaps are marked. The recent developments in the Andromède district, delivered since 2009, trade above the 1960s and 1970s housing blocks of Grand Noble and Ritouret, while the old village near the Garonne and the streets of detached houses to the south form a segment of their own. The market remains active, with around 219 sales a year.
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 driver of the Blagnac market is aeronautical employment. The airport, the Airbus assembly lines and the many subcontractors based on the Aéroconstellation site concentrate several tens of thousands of jobs a few minutes from home, which sustains continuous demand to buy and to rent. With 9,6 million passengers in 2019, the airport is the sixth busiest in France by traffic. This specialisation is also a dependency: the industrial cycles of the sector, production rates and recruitment plans, feed through fairly quickly to transaction volumes and to selling times.
The second factor is new supply. The Andromède development zone, planned for around 3 700 dwellings over 210 hectares with Beauzelle, has been feeding the market since 2009 with recent apartments that are now coming back up for resale. Tramway line T1, running since December 2010, has brought these sectors closer to the centre of Toulouse and weighs on the price hierarchy between served districts and those set apart. Conversely, the airport noise exposure plan freezes buildability over part of the territory, which mechanically limits the volume of new housing possible.
Blagnac sits a notch below Toulouse, its immediate neighbour on the other bank of the Garonne, but above Colomiers and the larger cities of the south-west such as Pau.
Blagnac, Blanhac in Occitan, takes its name from a Gallo-Roman estate. Tradition holds that Saint Exupère, the sixth bishop of Toulouse, was buried there around 415. The place then became a lordship held for close to three centuries by the Devoisin family, who bore the title of baron of Blagnac. Until the 19th century, the municipality remained a farming village on the Garonne plain, geared to market gardening and cereal growing, separated from Toulouse by the river and its floodable land. This position as a rural town a few kilometres from the city explains the availability of land that would prove decisive in the following century.
The turning point came with aeronautics. Toulouse had hosted the Latécoère workshops since 1917, but the flat land at Blagnac offered the space the city lacked: the site was chosen in 1937 for the future airport and work began in 1939 on 213 hectares. The first terminal was inaugurated in 1953, sized for 35 000 passengers a year. A second runway was created in 1968. It was from Blagnac that Concorde prototype 001 took off on 2 March 1969, then the first Airbus A300 on 28 October 1972. The factory and the airport anchored industrial employment in the municipality for good.
Urban growth followed employment. The population rose from a few thousand inhabitants after the war to more than 27 000 today, with post-war housing estates and suburban developments built in successive waves north and east of the old village. The Odyssud cultural complex opened in 1988. The revision of the local planning scheme begun in 2004 launched the Andromède development zone, a scheme of 210 hectares shared with Beauzelle and planned for around 3 700 dwellings, close to 3 000 of them in Blagnac: the first residents moved in during May 2009. The tramway arrived on 11 December 2010, and the Aeroscopia museum opened in January 2015 near the Airbus plants.
Blagnac has 27 604 inhabitants over 16,88 km². According to INSEE, the municipality counts 14 606 dwellings, of which 92,8 % are main residences and only 3,5 % second or occasional homes: the market is therefore residential, with no tourist dimension. Still according to INSEE, 44,1 % of households are owner-occupiers and 54,7 % tenants, a high rental share explained by the presence of aeronautics employees and subcontractors, often on the move. Buyers are mainly couples and working families employed in the airport area or in western Toulouse, who are looking for a home very close to their workplace.
The average price of apartments in Blagnac is 3 020 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. This municipal average covers very different situations: the recent homes of Andromède, the 1960s and 1970s blocks of Grand Noble, the town houses of the southern sector and the old village on the bank of the Garonne. Floor area, year of construction, parking and distance to the tramway weigh clearly on the value of a property.
The municipality is organised into six neighbourhood councils: Andromède, Centre, Grand Noble, Grenade-Les Prés, Odyssud and Sud. Andromède, a new district shared with Beauzelle and lived in since 2009, attracts buyers looking for recent stock built to current thermal standards. The Centre and the Sud sector, more suburban and close to the old village, are sought after for their houses. Grand Noble, marked by the blocks of the 1960s and 1970s decades, remains the most affordable segment.
Tramway line T1, brought into service on 11 December 2010, crosses Blagnac from north to south and reaches Toulouse, with a stop at Odyssud-Ritouret; line T2 serves the airport area. The centre of Toulouse is about six kilometres away, reached by the ring road and the bridges over the Garonne. Several Tisséo bus routes complete the links towards the employment hubs of western Toulouse.
It is a parameter to look at before any purchase. Toulouse-Blagnac airport has a noise exposure plan, approved by the prefect of Haute-Garonne on 21 August 2007, which divides the territory into zones and limits building rights according to the level of exposure. The sectors concerned are not the same from one end of the municipality to the other. The seller must also attach an aircraft noise disclosure statement to the sale agreement.
The two markets genuinely coexist, which is rare in the inner suburbs. According to INSEE, the municipality counts 69,4 % apartments and 30,1 % houses, that is around 4 400 individual houses, concentrated around the old village and in the estates to the south and east. Blocks of flats dominate in the Grand Noble and Ritouret complexes as well as in the recent developments of Andromède. The choice therefore depends above all on the district targeted.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).