The average price per m² in Charenton-le-Pont is 7 384 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 320 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Charenton-le-Pont, between the Marne and the Paris boundary.
The average price recorded in Charenton-le-Pont stands at 7 384 €/m². That average covers a stock made up almost entirely of flats: according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, 97,9 % of dwellings are apartments, on a territory of 1,85 km² cut by the Paris to Lyon railway line and by the A4 motorway. The gaps play out from one sector to another, between the old centre around Charenton-Écoles, the blocks of the 1960s and 1970s in the Bercy district, and the addresses close to the bois de Vincennes. These values come from the DVF database, which lists sales actually registered before notaries.
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 8 291 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Charenton-le-Pont reaches 7 384 €/m² in 2026, roughly -11 % over the period.
The first driver of the local market is the constraint on land. Over 1,85 km² entirely built up, with more than 15 000 inhabitants per square kilometre, the commune has no free land left: supply rests almost entirely on the resale of a stock of flats built in the 20th century. Transaction volume stays narrow, on the order of three hundred sales a year, which makes the averages sensitive to the mix of properties sold in a given year. The population has also fallen since 2017, a sign of shrinking household size more than of any loss of appeal.
The second driver is the transformation of the western sector. The Charenton-Bercy development zone, led by the town, Grand Paris Aménagement and Bouygues Immobilier, plans around 408 000 m² of floor space over some twenty hectares, between Bercy 2 and the railway, with housing, offices, shops and public facilities. The first building permit was granted in June 2024. This long-term project, meant to reconnect the commune to the Seine and to Paris, is one to watch: it will change the supply of new homes, today almost non-existent, and the image of the Bercy district.
Charenton-le-Pont sits at the top of the Val-de-Marne market, clearly above Vitry-sur-Seine and ahead of Montreuil. Levels nonetheless stay below those of Paris, on whose boundary the commune lies.
The name of the commune brings together Charenton, whose root refers to stone and to the old limestone quarries, and the bridge over the Marne mentioned as early as the 7th century. That crossing towards Paris from the south-east explains a heavy military history: a fort is recorded there at the start of the 14th century, the town was taken by the Calvinists in 1567, then retaken by Henry IV on 25 April 1590. The territory then consisted of three distinct cores, Charenton around the bridge, Conflans with its archbishop's château, and Bercy along the Seine, which explains the juxtaposition of urban fabrics still readable today.
Charenton also owes its fame to Protestantism. An edict of 1 August 1606 allowed the Reformed of Paris to build a temple there, replaced by a building by Salomon de Brosse completed in 1624, where a national synod was held in 1631. The building was destroyed in 1685, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The commune was created in 1790 under the name Conflans-l'Archevêque and took that of Charenton-le-Pont in 1801. In February 1814, the bridge was the scene of fighting as foreign armies advanced on Paris, before the capital surrendered on 30 March.
The 19th century set the shape of the town: the Paris to Lyon railway line, built between 1847 and 1849, cut the territory in two, while riverside activities, the wine trade and warehouses grew along the Seine. In 1929, the transfer of the bois de Vincennes to Paris shrank the commune further, down to 1,85 km². The metro arrived on 5 October 1942 with the Liberté and Charenton-Écoles stations. The A4 motorway, opened in the early 1970s, separated the town from its riverbanks, and the Bercy 2 shopping centre, designed by Renzo Piano, was opened on 24 April 1990.
Charenton-le-Pont has 28 830 inhabitants on 1,85 km², one of the highest densities in the inner suburbs. According to INSEE, the stock counts close to 16 000 dwellings, of which 97,9 % are apartments: the detached house is an exception here. Main residences account for 87 % of dwellings and second homes around 4,5 %, the profile of a town lived in all year round. Renting dominates, with close to 57 % tenants against 40 % owner-occupiers. Buyers are mainly working households commuting to Paris, a few stops away on metro line 8, and local tenants becoming owners without leaving the commune.
The average price per square metre in Charenton-le-Pont stands at 7 384 €/m², across all apartment types. That figure is calculated from the DVF database, which lists sales actually registered before notaries, not listings. It is a town-wide average: a studio in a 1970s block and a renovated family apartment in the old centre depart from it clearly. An online valuation places your property more precisely.
The commune is divided into five districts: Centre, Pont, Bercy, Valmy and Pasteur. The old centre, around rue de Paris and the Charenton-Écoles station, concentrates the shops and the most sought-after buildings. The Valmy sector, to the north, benefits from closeness to the bois de Vincennes. To the west, the Bercy district is marked by the large schemes of the 1960s and 1970s and by the barrier of the A4 motorway.
The town is served by metro line 8, with the Liberté and Charenton-Écoles stations, opened on 5 October 1942 with the extension from Porte de Charenton. The journey to central Paris takes no change. Several bus routes complete the service, and the A4 motorway and the ring road run along the edge of the commune. Closeness to the Gare de Lyon also makes travel to the rest of France easier.
The question hardly arises: according to INSEE, 97,9 % of dwellings are apartments. The few town houses survive mainly in the old streets of the centre and towards Conflans, rarely change hands and sell above the town-wide average. A buyer looking for a house with a garden will find more choice in Maisons-Alfort or Saint-Maurice, adjoining communes with a more developed fabric of detached homes.
Two points come up often. Noise first: the A4 motorway and the Paris to Lyon railway line cross the commune, and the noise classification of these infrastructures imposes acoustic insulation requirements in the sectors concerned, a point buyers check. As the stock is almost entirely held in blocks under joint ownership, the co-ownership documents, including the minutes of general meetings and the statement of charges, should be gathered early: they govern the timetable of the sale.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).