The average price per m² in Choisy-le-Roi is 3 541 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 4 903 €/m². About 324 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Choisy-le-Roi, in the Val-de-Marne.
The average price recorded in Choisy-le-Roi stands at 3 541 €/m². That average covers a stock made up mainly of flats, where the large estates of the southern districts weigh as heavily in sales as the blocks of the centre and the schemes born of the recent development zones. The fabric of detached houses, found towards Les Gondoles and along the Seine, trades at another level but accounts for only a limited share of transactions. The commune is also cut by the river and by the railway, which widens the gaps from one sector to another. The amounts come from the DVF database, which lists sales actually registered before notaries.
House : 4 903 €/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 3 845 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Choisy-le-Roi reaches 3 541 €/m² in 2026, roughly -8 % over the period.
The market in Choisy-le-Roi rests first of all on its residential role in the inner suburbs. With close to 46 000 inhabitants over 5,43 km², the commune offers an abundant stock of flats at a price level below that of its immediate neighbours, which draws working households and first-time buyers employed in Paris or in the Orly hub. As most occupants are tenants according to INSEE, turnover in the stock is strong and transaction volume stays steady from one year to the next, at around three hundred sales a year.
The second driver is accessibility, which has been improving since 2021. The RER C serves the town centre, the T9 tramway has linked the commune to the porte de Choisy and to Orly since April 2021, and line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express will serve Vitry Centre, a few minutes to the north. This improvement in transport goes with a supply of new housing concentrated in the development zones to the south, Les Hautes Bornes and Les Navigateurs. The combination of new stock being delivered and a largely older stock explains the spread of prices seen in the commune.
Choisy-le-Roi sits below its two immediate neighbours, Vitry-sur-Seine and Créteil, and clearly behind Bourg-la-Reine, further south-west. The commune is therefore among the most affordable entry points in this part of the Val-de-Marne.
The name of the commune comes from the Latin Sosiacum, the estate of Sosius, which became Cauciacum in the 8th and 9th centuries. The town remained a village on the banks of the Seine until Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, known as la Grande Mademoiselle, had a château built there from 1682 to plans by Jacques Gabriel. On her death in 1693, the estate passed to the Grand Dauphin. Louis XV bought it in 1739 for hunting and enlarged it: the village then took the name Choisy-le-Roi. A new town was laid out in 1746 on a grid plan, the Saint-Louis-Saint-Nicolas church was built from 1748 to 1760, and the road to Paris was paved in 1750, the year a first bridge was built.
The 19th century turned Choisy-le-Roi into an industrial commune. The Navier bridge, opened in 1809, replaced the ferry and fixed the crossing of the Seine. The glassworks, run from 1823 to 1848 by the chemist Georges Bontemps, developed copper ruby glass there in 1825, rediscovered the filigree glass known as Venetian, and supplied stained glass and optical glass. The earthenware works, founded in 1805 by the Paillart brothers, became H. Boulenger et Cie under Hippolyte Boulenger, its owner in 1863, and ranked among the great French manufactories until its Choisy workshops closed in 1936. The arrival of the railway in 1840, with the Paris to Corbeil line, then of the tramway to Paris in 1892, sped up that change.
The 20th century densified the territory. Working-class housing gave way, after 1945, to large estates built in the southern part of the commune, which still carry a large share of the social housing stock. The bridge over the Seine was rebuilt between 1962 and 1965 to absorb road traffic. From 1968 to 1973, the Vietnamese delegation engaged in the negotiations of the Paris accords was housed in Choisy-le-Roi. Since the 2000s, several development zones have reshaped the town: Les Hautes Bornes, Les Navigateurs, the Briand-Pelloutier sector. It is these successive layers, royal town, factory town, large estates and then renewal schemes, that explain the fragmented shape of Choisy-le-Roi today.
Choisy-le-Roi has 45 946 inhabitants over 5,43 km², a density close to 8 500 inhabitants per square kilometre. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the commune totals around 21 800 dwellings, of which 92,6 % are main residences: second homes are marginal, and the local market is one of use, not of holidays. Again according to INSEE, 82,2 % of dwellings are apartments and 15,5 % houses, and 37,1 % of households own their main residence, against 61,3 % who rent. Buyers are therefore mainly working households employed in the inner suburbs or in Paris, first-time buyers priced out of the more expensive adjoining communes, and families looking for a detached house.
The average price recorded in Choisy-le-Roi is 3 541 €/m², across all sales. That figure comes from the DVF database, which lists transfers actually registered before notaries, not online listings. It is a town-wide average: depending on the sector, the floor level, the condition of the property and the distance to the station, the gap between two apartments in the town can be wide. A valuation address by address remains necessary before setting an asking price.
The town centre, around the RER C station, the town hall and the Saint-Louis-Saint-Nicolas church, concentrates the shops and the best transport. The banks of the Seine and the detached houses of Les Gondoles form a second sought-after sector, with houses and small blocks. The southern districts, marked by the large estates of the 1960s and by the urban renewal schemes under way, show lower and more uneven values from one development to another.
Choisy-le-Roi station is served by the RER C, which links the commune directly to central Paris along the Seine. Since 10 April 2021, the T9 tramway has crossed the town between the porte de Choisy and Orly, with an interchange to metro line 7 at its Paris terminus. Several bus routes, including the TVM, complete the network, and line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express will serve the neighbouring Vitry Centre station.
The apartment largely dominates the market, since INSEE records 82,2 % of flats in the commune. Houses, concentrated in the residential streets of Les Gondoles and near the Seine, come out around 4 903 €/m², above the all-sales average. That gap owes to the scarcity of the product and to the value of land in a dense commune. For most selling plans, the useful comparison remains that of apartments in the same sector.
Several schemes are under way in the southern part of the commune. The Hautes Bornes development zone plans on the order of 600 dwellings, that of Les Navigateurs close to 500, and the Briand-Pelloutier sector is the subject of an urban renewal programme with demolitions, refurbishments and new public facilities. These works change supply sector by sector and bring new housing alongside an older stock. Their effect on prices is measured at district level, not across the whole commune.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).