The average price per m² in Chaumont is 1 278 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,1 to 1,4 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 16 % over 5 years and rose 5,2 % over the last 12 months, with about 71 transactions per year.
Chaumont, the prefecture town of the Haute-Marne department, between the Suize valley and that of the Marne.
Apartments in Chaumont sell at an average price of around 1 278 €/m², based on transactions actually completed (DVF data, the French notarised sales database). Prices range from about 1 187 €/m² in Les Tanneries to 1 415 €/m² in Château-Paillot, a gap of only 19 %, and the three districts in between sit within 2 %. Houses, at 1 554 €/m², cost 22 % more than apartments. The market records 71 apartment sales a year.
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 1 100 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Chaumont reaches 1 278 €/m² in 2026, around +16 % over the period.
Change in the average price per m² over twelve months, district by district, based on the most recent DVF sales.
The average price per m² for an apartment in each of the five districts of Chaumont covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Chaumont market has risen over time. The average apartment price went from 1 100 €/m² in 2021 to 1 278 in 2026, around 16 % over the period, and the rise continues over the last twelve months, at 5,2 %. What is falling is the number of sales: the municipality recorded 96 apartment sales in 2021 as in 2022, then 77 in 2023, and the pace has stayed lower since. These are two different series, and here they run in opposite directions: a less active market is not a market in decline.
All five districts are up over five years, in a range of 10 to 21 %. The Centre-ville leads with 21 %, ahead of Château-Paillot, 17 %, La Gare, 14 %, Lafayette, 13 %, and Les Tanneries, 10 %. Over twelve months, Les Tanneries shows 16,6 % and La Gare 7,3 %, while the Centre-ville remains stable: these differences rest on eight to 24 sales a year depending on the district and call for confirmation before any conclusion is drawn. Immover covers five districts, or 95 % of the apartment sales of the municipality. The La Rochotte and Le Cavalier areas, 95 % made up of social housing, record almost no apartment sales: no price can be calculated there, and the town is running an urban renewal programme begun in 2007 and continued under an agreement signed on 5 May 2022. Le Val-Barizien is in the same position, and Brottes, a delegated municipality since 1973, is a village about 3 kilometres south of the centre.
Chaumont compared with the major French cities, on the average price per m² for an apartment.
Chaumont is the prefecture town of the Haute-Marne department, built on a spur between the Suize to the west and the Marne to the east, two rivers that meet north of the town, on a plateau rising to around 247 metres. Its name comes from the Latin Calvus Mons, the bald mount. The town was founded in the tenth century: the local historian Émile Jolibois attributes it to Geoffroy I of Chaumont, on a site already occupied in Roman times, as the excavations of 1989 to 1992 in the Corgebin forest showed. Burdened with debt, the town was ceded to the count of Champagne in 1205, then passed to the royal domain together with the county. In 1292, Chaumont was recognised as the capital of the surrounding country.
On 8 February 1475, Pope Sixtus IV instituted by papal bull the Grand Pardon de Chaumont, a plenary indulgence granted in perpetuity to anyone who visits the collegiate church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, confesses and takes communion there in the years when the feast of Saint John the Baptist, on 24 June, falls on a Sunday. The Jesuits established a college in 1617. In the eighteenth century the sculptor Edme Bouchardon, born in Chaumont in 1698, made the artistic reputation of the town. In 1790, Chaumont became the administrative centre of the new Haute-Marne department, and the municipality bore the name Chaumont-en-Bassigny until 1971.
The town was occupied for six months in 1814 by the allied troops, who secretly signed the Treaty of Chaumont there on 9 March, a twenty-year defensive alliance between Great Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria; the occupation brought requisitions, food shortages and a typhus epidemic. The nineteenth century brought glove-making, hosiery and drapery, the canals and the railway: the viaduct was built in 1856 and the station opened on 25 April 1857. In September 1917, the headquarters of General Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces moved to the Val des Escholiers; President Wilson visited on 25 December 1918.
During the Second World War, the town was occupied from 15 June 1940 to 13 September 1944. The Allied bombing raids of 11 and 23 May 1944 destroyed around 400 buildings, the Germans blew up two arches of the viaduct on 31 August, and Chaumont was liberated by General Patton's troops. A gendarmerie training school was created in 1945 and moved three years later into the Damrémont barracks. The population reached 26 000 inhabitants in 1980, then declined along with the economy of the Haute-Marne: the municipality had 20 827 in 2023. The poster festival launched in 1990 gave rise in 2016 to the national graphic design centre, Le Signe, housed in the former Banque de France building, and Palestra, an aquatic centre and sports and entertainment venue, opened in mid-2021. Today, 56,2 % of the homes in the municipality are apartments and 43,2 % are houses.
Chaumont sells at 1 278 €/m² for an apartment, an affordable level for a department prefecture town. The municipality has 41,7 % owner-occupiers and 55,1 % tenants, 33,9 % of them in social housing, and 56,2 % of its housing stock is apartments. The typical buyer is a first-time buyer, a family, a public-sector worker drawn by the government offices and training establishments of the town, a retiree, or an investor aiming to rent out. Three points to know before buying. The first is the narrow spread of prices: 19 % separates Château-Paillot, at 1 415 €/m², from Les Tanneries, at 1 187, and the three districts in between sit within 2 %. In Chaumont, the address counts for less than the condition of the property, the floor and the energy performance. The second is the gap between houses, at 1 554 €/m², and apartments, 22 %, in a municipality where 43,2 % of homes are houses. The third is how to read the trend: the price gains 16 % over five years and 5,2 % over twelve months, while the number of sales falls. These are two distinct movements, and the second says nothing about the first.
The average price in Chaumont is 1 278 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 076 to 1 449 €/m² depending on the district. Property portals show asking prices, 10 to 20 % above the prices actually recorded.
Château-Paillot, the upper town, at 1 415 €/m², 11 % above the town-wide average. La Gare follows at 1 286 €/m², then Lafayette at 1 272 and the Centre-ville at 1 266. The gap remains small: 19 % separate the most expensive district from the most affordable, Les Tanneries, at 1 187 €/m².
Because the Chaumont market is very tightly grouped. The three districts in between, La Gare, Lafayette and the Centre-ville, sit within 2 %, between 1 266 and 1 286 €/m². The choice of district therefore counts for less than the condition of the building, the floor, whether there is a lift and the energy performance of the home.
No. Chaumont has been its prefecture town since the department was created in 1790, but Saint-Dizier, a sub-prefecture town, has more inhabitants: 22 858 against 20 827 in Chaumont in 2023. Nor should this Chaumont be confused with Chaumont-sur-Loire, in the Loir-et-Cher department, or with Chaumont-en-Vexin, in the Oise.
Yes. The average apartment price went from 1 100 €/m² in 2021 to 1 278 in 2026, around 16 %, and it gains a further 5,2 % over twelve months. The number of sales, however, is falling: 96 apartment sales in 2021 as in 2022, 77 in 2023. Fewer transactions does not mean lower prices.
Houses sell at 1 554 €/m², 22 % more than apartments at 1 278 €/m². Houses make up 43,2 % of the homes in the municipality, and the market has recorded more than two hundred sales of them over the last two years. The plot, the condition of the roof and the energy performance make the difference between two properties.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).