The average price per m² in Bry-sur-Marne is 4 768 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 6 471 €/m². About 142 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Bry-sur-Marne, on the banks of the Marne east of Paris.
The average price recorded in Bry-sur-Marne stands at 4 768 €/m² for an apartment. That average covers a contrasting stock: rental blocks built when the Paris middle classes came to take the air by the water, developments from the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent schemes near the station and the Marne. The town also keeps a fabric of detached houses inherited from its holiday past, and houses there reach 6 471 €/m² on average, a level that reflects their scarcity and the appeal of plots close to the river. These figures come from the DVF database, which lists sales actually registered before notaries.
House : 6 471 €/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 market in Bry-sur-Marne rests on a combination that is fairly rare in the inner suburbs: direct access to Paris on the RER A, a setting on the banks of the Marne and a large share of detached houses. That supply draws families looking for a house or a large apartment a few minutes from the capital, a spillover profile from Paris that keeps demand for family properties strong. The houses of the hillsides and the homes close to the river and the station concentrate most of the searches.
Supply stays constrained by the modest size of the commune and by the scarcity of building land. New schemes near the station and the Marne pull values up, while the older stock and energy-hungry properties call for longer negotiations, energy performance having become a leading criterion in the Paris region. The works on the future Grand Paris Express station, on the boundary with Villiers and Champigny, add a forward-looking dimension in the south-east of the territory, without its effect on prices yet being measurable.
On this bank of the Marne, Bry-sur-Marne holds an intermediate position: above Champigny-sur-Marne and Villiers-sur-Marne, with which it will soon share a station, but below Le Perreux-sur-Marne, its more expensive immediate neighbour.
The name Bry comes from the Celtic Briw, a ford or river crossing, and the site has been inhabited since the Neolithic. Long a farming village on the hillsides turned towards the Marne, the commune counted only around three hundred inhabitants at the start of the 19th century. Its fate changed after 1850, when the arrival of the railway and the craze for the banks of the Marne drew well-off Parisians, who built holiday houses and riverside guinguettes, open-air cafés, along the water.
The history of Bry is tied to that of Louis Daguerre, one of the inventors of photography, who lived and died in the commune. He left the painted diorama of the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church, a trompe-l'oeil work unique in the world, restored and still on view. In the grounds of the former château, a long covered walk built around 1900 ends in a colonnaded rotunda sheltering a statue of Apollo, in a style inspired by the 18th century.
Bry has also kept a close link with cinema and broadcasting. The Bry studios, among the largest in France, host the shooting of some twenty films and series each year. Between this heritage, its wooded hillsides and its frontage on the Marne, the town combines a quiet residential setting with an inner-suburb position, immediately east of Paris.
Bry-sur-Marne has around 18 503 inhabitants. The town stands apart from its neighbours through an unusual share of houses for the inner suburbs: the blocks of the centre and around the station are matched by a dense fabric of detached homes, inherited from the holiday era on the banks of the Marne. Buyers are mainly Paris-region families and Paris households looking for a larger home and a greener setting, less than twenty minutes from the capital. Demand concentrates on the houses of the hillsides and on apartments close to the Marne and the station, two segments where supply stays limited. Properties in need of work and those with a poor energy rating take longer to sell.
For an apartment, the town-wide average comes out at 4 768 €/m², based on sales registered before notaries and published in the DVF database. It is an average that mixes older studios and recent family apartments. The address, the floor level, closeness to the Marne or to the station, the year of construction and the energy performance explain most of the gaps. For a reliable valuation, comparable sales are a better guide than the average alone.
Yes. Unlike many inner-suburb communes, Bry keeps a real fabric of houses, above all on the hillsides and in the streets that came out of the holiday era. They trade on average around 6 471 €/m², clearly above apartments. Their value depends heavily on the plot, the condition, the aspect and the view over the Marne, more than on any theoretical price per square metre.
The commune is served by the RER A station on avenue Etienne de Silhouette, which puts Nation less than twenty minutes away and Châtelet around thirty. It is the town's main access asset, and closeness to that station weighs on the prices of the homes around it. The bus network completes the service towards the neighbouring communes and the interchange stations.
On the edges of Bry, Villiers-sur-Marne and Champigny, the Villiers-Champigny-Bry station is being built on line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express, with an eventual interchange to a new RER E station. It is meant to allow suburb-to-suburb journeys without going through Paris. That prospect supports buyer interest in the south-east of the commune, even if the effect on prices has yet to be confirmed once the line is running.
Part of the land close to the Marne is exposed to flood risk: this has to be checked in the planning documents and in the statement of risks before any purchase. Letting a furnished tourist rental is also regulated in the Paris metropolitan area and requires a declaration at the town hall. Depending on your plans, the tax treatment of a second home is also worth anticipating.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).