The average price per m² in Centre-ville (Chaumont) is 1 266 €/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 21 % over 5 years and rose 0,1 % over the last 12 months, with about 24 transactions per year.
The Centre-ville of Chaumont, on the spur, around the basilica of Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
Apartments in the Centre-ville district, in Chaumont, sell at an average price of around 1 266 €/m², based on prices actually recorded (DVF transactions, notarised sales). Between 1 054 and 1 417 €/m² covers half of all sales, the gap depending on the condition of the old buildings, the floor, whether there is a lift and the work to be planned. Five-year change: +21 %.
Prices from the DVF file (Demandes de valeurs foncières, published by the DGFiP), transactions actually recorded at the notary, aggregated at district level using the IRIS zoning of INSEE. Cross-referenced with the Notaires de France - INSEE indices. Learn more about our methodology.
After 1 047 €/m² in 2021, the average price in the Centre-ville district of Chaumont reaches 1 266 €/m² in 2026, around +21 % over the period.
Town-centre shops, markets and pedestrian streets of the old centre.
Town hall, law courts, museum of art and history, media library close by.
Dense and varied buildings, small squares, alleyways and inner courtyards, viewpoints over the two valleys, tree-lined boulevards forming a ring.
The Centre-ville of Chaumont. Google Maps.
The Centre-ville occupies the spur, between the two valleys. It is organised around the basilica of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, on the rue Decrès, the keep and the museum of art and history housed in the former castle, the law courts, the town hall on the place de la Concorde, and the place des Arts. The rue Saint-Jean, the rue Damrémont, the rue Laloy, the rue du Palais, the rue Girardon, the rue Bouchardon, the rue de Verdun, the rue Toupot-de-Béveaux and the rue Victoire-de-la-Marne map out its fabric. A ring of boulevards, Voltaire, Gambetta, Barotte, Diderot and Thiers, encloses the old centre; the municipal master plan treats it as a district in its own right, to be redeveloped as a tree-lined promenade.
This is the walled town, born in the tenth century around the castle of the lords and then of the counts of Champagne. The keep, once called the Tour de la Chastellerie or Tour Rouge, dates from the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century: it is the oldest building in Chaumont, and has been refurbished since 2020 with the departmental council and the Medievalys association. The collegiate church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, built from the thirteenth century onwards, is the setting for the Grand Pardon instituted in 1475. The law courts, housed in the former castle, burned down on 3 January 1976 and were rebuilt. The bombing raids of May 1944 destroyed around 400 buildings in the town: the breaks in scale between old façades and reconstruction buildings still bear the trace of it.
The Centre-ville sits at 1 266 €/m², 1 % below the town-wide average, with 24 apartment sales a year, which makes it the leading market in Chaumont. It gains 21 % over five years, the strongest rise of the five districts, from 1 047 €/m² in 2021 to 1 266 in 2026, and remains stable over twelve months, at 0,1 %.
The Centre-ville is the leading market in Chaumont, with 24 apartment sales a year, around a third of the transactions of the five districts, and it is the one rising the most over five years: from 1 047 €/m² in 2021 to 1 266 in 2026, or 21 %. Its price is nevertheless still 1 % below the town-wide average. The district attracts buyers who want to live on foot, close to the shops, the markets, the town hall and the museums: working people, retirees, and investors aiming to rent out. Three points to check. The buildings are old and varied: 8,1 % of the housing stock of the municipality dates from before 1919, and the reconstruction after 1944 filled the gaps left by the bombing, so that two neighbouring buildings can be a century apart. The range, from 1 054 to 1 417 €/m², reflects this, and approved works, the condition of the roof and the presence of a lift account for a large part of the value. Lastly, prices here are consistent from one size of home to another, from 1 242 €/m² for a four-room flat or larger to 1 307 €/m² for a two-room flat: it is the condition of the property, not its floor area, that makes the difference.
The average price in Centre-ville is 1 266 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 054 to 1 417 €/m² depending on the building, the floor and the condition.
No. At 1 266 €/m², it is even 1 % below the town-wide average, and Château-Paillot, the upper town, is more expensive at 1 415 €/m². It is, however, the leading market in the town, with 24 apartment sales a year, and the one rising the most over five years, by 21 %.
A plenary indulgence instituted in perpetuity by a bull of Pope Sixtus IV of 8 February 1475, granted to anyone who visits the collegiate church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, confesses and takes communion there. It is not held every year: only in the years when the feast of Saint John the Baptist, on 24 June, falls on a Sunday.
Over five years, yes, and faster than elsewhere in the town: 1 047 €/m² in 2021, 1 266 in 2026, or 21 %. Over the last twelve months the price is stable, at 0,1 %, on 24 apartment sales a year.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).