The average price per m² in Bondy is 2 977 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 182 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of the banks of the Ourcq canal in Bondy.
The average price recorded in Bondy stands at 2 977 €/m². That average covers a housing stock where apartments account for close to seven dwellings out of ten, with two distinct realities: the large estates built from the 1960s north of the Ourcq canal, and the streets of detached houses to the south and east, inherited from the housing developments of the early 20th century. Closeness to the station, to the T4 tram-train and the Grand Paris Express works create appreciable gaps from one district to the next. This figure comes from the DVF data, that is, from sales actually registered before notaries (the French notarised sales database).
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.
Bondy shows an uncommon profile for the inner suburbs: 50 595 inhabitants over an area of 5,5 square kilometres, a high density, but a population that has been falling since 2017 while most neighbouring communes are growing. The market reflects this: volume stays steady, a little over 180 apartment sales a year, with no marked scarcity tension. Demand comes above all from Paris-region households whose budget no longer allows them to buy in Montreuil, Pantin or Rosny-sous-Bois, and who accept moving a few kilometres further out to gain floor space.
The second driver is accessibility. The commune is already linked to Paris by the RER E and to the north-east by the T4 tram-train, but the arrival of line 15 East changes the scale: two stations, Bondy and Pont de Bondy, are due to open around 2030-2031 and to connect the commune to Saint-Denis Pleyel, Bobigny and Champigny without going through Paris. Development projects are concentrated on these two anchor points and on the banks of the Ourcq canal. Conversely, the existing barriers, the canal, the railway lines and the A3 motorway, continue to segment the market district by district.
Bondy sits clearly below its neighbours in the east of Paris, whether Rosny-sous-Bois, Aulnay-sous-Bois or Montreuil. The gap with the last of these, only five kilometres away, is the widest.
The name Bondy comes from the Latin Bonitius followed by the suffix -acum; the form Bonisiacus is recorded as early as 700, and Bungeyas in 1060. In the 11th century the territory belonged to the Saint-Martin-des-Champs collegiate church in Paris, attached to the order of Cluny in 1079. The forest of Bondy then covered a large part of the area and long kept a reputation as a place of ambush on the road running east out of Paris; a coaching inn was set up there in 1615. The Triboulleau family, secretaries of the king's finances, had the château of Bondy built between 1702 and 1710, and the church was rebuilt in 1750-1752. The 1709 census counted around 260 inhabitants.
The cutting of the Ourcq canal, carried out from 1804 to 1822, split the château's grounds in two and fixed the structuring axis of the commune for a long time. The railway followed: the station opened in 1849 on the line running east out of Paris and quickly drew more passengers than the one at Noisy-le-Sec. The château itself was demolished around 1850. During the siege of Paris, Prussian troops occupied the village from 1870 and set up batteries there. The forest, worked and then cleared in the early 19th century, survives only in the neighbouring communes of Clichy-sous-Bois, Montfermeil and Coubron. In 1905, part of the territory was detached to form Les Pavillons-sous-Bois.
The present shape of the town took form after the war. The population doubled from the 1960s onwards with the building of large social housing estates, above all in the northern districts. Public facilities followed the same rhythm: the Henri-Sellier school group in 1956-1957, a new town hall from 1964, the Christ-Ressuscité church in 1965, the Pierre-Curie schools between 1965 and 1973, the Tournesol swimming pool in 1974-1976, the Jean-Verdier hospital from 1975. Work on the A3 motorway, begun in 1973, added a further break in the urban fabric. The town has lived ever since with this juxtaposition of housing estates, detached homes and heavy infrastructure; the Bois de Bondy park, ten hectares opened in 2005, is its main green space.
Bondy has 50 595 inhabitants and has been losing residents since 2017. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the commune holds around 22 200 dwellings, of which 87,9 % are main residences: people live here all year round, and the second home is marginal. Apartments make up 71,2 % of the stock and houses 26,9 %, a high proportion of detached housing for the inner suburbs. Again according to INSEE, 40,8 % of households are owner-occupiers and 57,4 % tenants. Buyers are mainly Paris-region households on a tight budget, first-time buyers looking for a three- or four-room flat, and families aiming for a town house at a price level that has become out of reach closer to Paris.
The average price recorded in Bondy is 2 977 €/m². It is an average drawn from the DVF database, which lists sales actually completed before notaries. It aggregates studios, family apartments in the large estates and detached houses, whose value levels differ markedly. Your property may depart from that average depending on its district, its condition, the presence of a lift, of outdoor space or of parking, and its distance from the station.
The highest values are found south of the Ourcq canal, in the streets of detached houses close to the centre, to the station and to the boundaries with Villemomble and Le Raincy. The north of the commune, structured by the large estates of the 1960s and bordered by the A3 motorway, trades lower. Between the two, the 1970s and 1980s apartment blocks in the centre concentrate most of the transaction volume.
Bondy station is served by the RER E, part of the Paris regional express rail network, which runs to Magenta and Haussmann-Saint-Lazare, and is the terminus of the T4 tram-train towards Aulnay-sous-Bois, opened in 2006, one branch of which has served Clichy-Montfermeil since 2019. The bus network completes the service, notably towards Bobigny and Noisy-le-Sec. Two Grand Paris Express stations, Bondy and Pont de Bondy, are planned on line 15 East, with an opening announced around 2030-2031.
Bondy is one of the communes of Seine-Saint-Denis where the detached house remains within reach: according to INSEE, 26,9 % of dwellings are houses, against 71,2 % apartments. The supply of houses is concentrated in the southern and eastern districts, which came out of the housing developments of the early 20th century. These houses are often old, on narrow plots, and call for an energy renovation budget. Selling times there stay shorter than for apartments, family demand being sustained.
The Pont de Bondy sector, on the edge of Bobigny and Noisy-le-Sec, is the subject of a development project around the future line 15 East station, with a redevelopment of the canal banks and of the surroundings of the A3 motorway. Several northern districts also fall under urban renewal programmes. These works alter the immediate surroundings of the dwellings concerned, and it is worth checking the schedule of the works before signing.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).