The average price per m² in Bougival is 4 298 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 5 876 €/m². About 63 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of a residential commune in the Paris region.
The average price of apartments in Bougival stands at 4 298 €/m², based on DVF sales actually registered before notaries. Houses sit clearly above, at 5 876 €/m². The commune covers only 2,76 square kilometres, already largely built up, between the Seine and the hillsides: land available for building has been reduced to almost nothing.
House : 5 876 €/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 4 585 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Bougival reaches 4 298 €/m² in 2026, roughly -6 % over the period.
Bougival illustrates a common case in the western inner suburbs: a commune with a remarkable heritage, a few kilometres from La Défense, but whose prices stay below those of its immediate neighbours. The explanation lies less in appeal than in transport: the station is not on the commune's territory, and the height difference between the Seine bank and the top of the hillside makes access uneven from one district to the next.
The second factor is the state of the housing stock. With 346 vacant dwellings out of 4 477, or 7,7 %, Bougival holds a stock that the market does not absorb by itself. In a commune where the population has nonetheless grown by around 5 % since 2017, that gap between demand and properties actually fit for sale translates into a clear premium for renovated homes that are well placed relative to the station.
Set in its surroundings, Bougival sits below its immediate neighbours in the Seine loop, a gap that owes much to rail services.
The commune was long made up of two distinct entities, Bougival on the banks of the Seine and La Chaussée-Charlevanne, the latter hamlet attested as early as the 9th century. The name Bougival appears in the 13th century. In 845, Viking ships landed at this point on the Seine; in 1683, Louis XIV bought the land of Bougival.
The most striking episode is industrial. From 1681 to 1688, Arnold de Ville and the Liège master builders Rennequin and Paulus Sualem built the Machine de Marly, designed to raise water from the Seine by some hundred and fifty metres to supply Versailles and Marly: fourteen wheels twelve metres in diameter and more than two hundred and fifty pumps. It ran for a hundred and thirty-three years, until its destruction in 1817, replaced by a steam pump in 1827 and then by the Dufrayer machine in 1859.
Bougival is also a place of painting and music. Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Pissarro worked there, and Berthe Morisot stayed from 1881 to 1884. Georges Bizet died there on 3 June 1875, after orchestrating Carmen; Ivan Turgenev passed away in his dacha in 1883, today a museum. Mistinguett died there in 1956.
Bougival is a main-residence market: 90 % of the stock, against 2,2 % second homes. Buyers are working Paris-region households aiming for Paris or La Défense, with a journey of about thirty minutes to Paris-Saint-Lazare on line L. One point strongly conditions the value of a property: the station called Bougival actually stands on the territory of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, at the top of the hillside. Between the lower part of the commune along the Seine and the upper part towards the station, the difference in height exceeds eighty metres and accessibility is not the same.
The average price of apartments is 4 298 €/m² and that of houses 5 876 €/m², based on DVF sales actually completed before notaries. That is clearly below the level of Rueil-Malmaison and Versailles, neighbouring communes with better rail services.
Around twenty-six to thirty-two minutes to Paris-Saint-Lazare on line L of the Transilien, the Paris regional rail network. One caveat, though: Bougival station stands on the commune of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, at the top of the hillside. Getting to the station from a property on the banks of the Seine therefore takes appreciably longer than from the upper part of the commune.
The commune covers only 2,76 square kilometres, already largely urbanised, hemmed in between the Seine to the east and the hillsides to the south. The territory also includes a large part of the île de la Chaussée and the upstream tip of the île de la Loge. There is virtually no building land left, which explains why the market rests almost entirely on existing properties.
It is a level above that of comparable residential communes in the Yvelines. It shows that part of the stock, often old, finds no buyer in its current state. For a seller, that means the condition of the property and its asking price count for more here than on a market where everything sells.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).