The average price per m² in Bois-Colombes is 6 338 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 8 426 €/m². About 299 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Bois-Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine.
The average price recorded in Bois-Colombes stands at 6 338 €/m². That average covers a stock largely made of apartments, since more than eight dwellings in ten are flats according to INSEE, the French national statistics office. It mixes older buildings in the centre, around the station and the rue des Bourguignons, recent developments from the Bruyères schemes and the ZAC Pompidou-Le Mignon, and millstone-grit houses inherited from the pre-war estates. Houses, rare on a territory of 1,92 km², come out at 8 426 €/m². These values come from the DVF database, which records transactions actually registered before notaries.
House : 8 426 €/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.
After 6 774 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Bois-Colombes reaches 6 338 €/m² in 2026, about -6 % over the period.
The Bois-Colombes market rests first on employment and on the railway. The conversion of the former Hispano-Suiza site brought to the Bruyères district several company headquarters, including IBM, Coface, GRT Gaz, Elengy and Storengy, which settles a population of professional staff right next to the housing. Line J links the station to Paris Saint-Lazare in about ten minutes, and Bécon-les-Bruyères opens access to La Défense via line L. That twofold accessibility sustains steady demand from families leaving Paris without lengthening their daily journey.
Supply, for its part, is constrained. With 1,92 km² and close to 29 000 inhabitants, the municipality is almost entirely built up and no longer has significant land reserves. New-build volumes therefore depend on targeted development schemes, such as the ZAC Pompidou-Le Mignon to the north, whose housing deliveries accompanied the reopening of the parc Pompidou in 2020. The inter-municipal local urban plan approved in 2025 now governs the scope for added storeys and plot division, a factor to check before any project involving a house.
Bois-Colombes sits in the upper middle of its area: above Colombes, from which it separated in 1896, a little behind Courbevoie, and far behind Levallois-Perret, closer to Paris.
Bois-Colombes owes its name to a wood that still covered part of the territory in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1851, the census of Colombes recorded only seventeen inhabitants at the place known as Bois de Colombes, halfway between the villages of Asnières-sur-Seine and Colombes. The opening of the railway line from Paris to Argenteuil, on 28 April 1851, changed things, then the station came into service on 1 November 1857 under the name Bois de Colombes. Open-air taverns first welcomed Sunday walkers, before housing estates fixed a permanent population and drew the present street network.
The settlement grew populous enough to claim its autonomy. After some twenty years of efforts, the municipality of Bois-Colombes was created on 13 March 1896, under the presidency of Félix Faure, by separation from Colombes. By then it already had a church, the Paul-Bert school and the largest market in the area. Industry then moved in: in 1914, Hispano-Suiza opened its workshops on the rue du Capitaine-Guynemer and became the main local employer. The 1930s gave the town its structuring facilities, with a new station designed by the architect Urbain Cassan in 1935 and a town hall built between 1935 and 1937.
The departure of Hispano-Suiza in 1999 freed a vast site to the south and opened the conversion phase that gave the town its present shape. The La Cigogne school moved in 2005 into the former wind tunnel of the factory, the parc des Bruyères was created in 2006, and company headquarters set up in the district, among them IBM, Coface, GRT Gaz, Elengy and Storengy. The centre followed the same movement: the Jean-Renoir hall in 2011, the Saint-Germain footbridge over the tracks in 2013, the redevelopment of the rue des Bourguignons from 2016 to 2018, the place Gabriel-Péri in 2019, then the renovation of the station building in the summer of 2021. To the north, the ZAC Pompidou-Le Mignon continues that renewal with the full reopening of the parc Pompidou in September 2020 and several housing schemes.
Bois-Colombes has 28 909 inhabitants over 1,92 km², one of the highest densities in the Hauts-de-Seine. According to INSEE, the municipality counts about 15 000 dwellings, of which nearly 90 % are main residences: the market is almost entirely residential, with no notable weight of second homes. More than eight dwellings in ten are apartments, and a little more than half the households occupying their main residence own it, the rest being tenants, including a share in social housing. Buyers are mainly families and working people employed in Paris or at La Défense, looking for a residential setting of houses ten minutes from Saint-Lazare.
The average price stands at 6 338 €/m² for an apartment, and 8 426 €/m² for a house. These amounts are calculated from the DVF database, which takes in the transactions registered by notaries, and not from listings. They cover contrasting situations depending on the condition of the property, the floor level, the presence of outdoor space and the distance to the station, which remains the main value marker in the municipality.
The town is organised into three districts. The centre brings together the station, the rue des Bourguignons and the place Gabriel-Péri, with an older fabric of buildings and shops. The northern district is being transformed around the ZAC Pompidou-Le Mignon and the parc Pompidou. The southern district, known as Les Bruyères, was rebuilt after the departure of Hispano-Suiza: offices, recent housing, a park created in 2006 and a promenade laid out on a former railway line.
The station of Bois-Colombes is served by Transilien line J, from Paris Saint-Lazare, with a train every ten to fifteen minutes depending on the hour. The journey takes about ten minutes. Two other stations lie on the municipal boundary, Bécon-les-Bruyères on line L, which reaches La Défense and Nanterre, and Les Vallées. The municipality is not, on the other hand, served by the metro.
The choice is very unbalanced. Apartments make up more than eight dwellings in ten according to INSEE, so that the usual supply concerns flats, older near the station or recent in the restructured areas. Houses, often in millstone grit or brick from the estates of the early twentieth century, are few over 1,92 km² and sell at a markedly higher level, at 8 426 €/m².
Bois-Colombes belongs to the Boucle Nord de Seine territorial public authority, responsible for planning in place of the municipalities. The inter-municipal local urban plan was approved on 26 June 2025 and came into force on 11 July 2025, replacing the municipal local urban plan. It is therefore that document to consult before any project of extension, added storey or plot division, along with the easements specific to each plot.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).