The average price per m² in Collioure is 5 697 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 74 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of the Mediterranean coastline.
The average price in Collioure stands at 5 697 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually registered with notaries (DVF is the French record of notarised property sales). That is more than three times the level of Perpignan, twenty-four kilometres away. The municipality has 4 841 dwellings for 2 756 inhabitants, of which 3 460 are second homes, and its vacancy rate falls to 1,3 %: almost no property is available outside the open market.
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 4 386 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Collioure reaches 5 697 €/m² in 2026, an increase of roughly +30 % over the period.
Collioure is one of the tightest markets on the French Mediterranean coast relative to its size. Three indicators show it together: 72 % second homes, 1,3 % vacancy, and a permanent population that nevertheless grows by nearly 14 % since 2017. In other words, local residential demand and holiday demand compete for the same stock, which does not expand.
This configuration produces a well-documented crowding-out effect in municipalities of this type: households working locally struggle to find housing, and the share of the stock genuinely available year-round shrinks. For an owner, that means value depends almost entirely on scarcity rather than on the local business cycle, and that the precise location, between old centre, Faubourg and heights, accounts for most of the price gap.
Placed back in its setting, Collioure sits well above the towns of the Roussillon and the resorts of the Languedoc coast.
The castle of Collioure is mentioned as early as 673, in Visigothic times. Between 1242 and 1280 the kings of Majorca rebuilt it: the royal castle still occupies the seafront today, between the two coves of the harbour. Louis XIII took the stronghold in 1642, and the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659 attached the Roussillon definitively to France. Vauban then reworked the fortifications, of which the Fort Miradou and the Tour de l'Étoile survive.
In 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain spent the summer in Collioure. The canvases they painted there, saturated with pure colour, mark the birth of Fauvism. That sequence of a few months durably fixed the image of the village, of its lighthouse bell tower and of its Catalan fishing boats.
On 22 February 1939 the Spanish poet Antonio Machado died in Collioure, where he had taken refuge after the Retirada; he is buried in the municipal cemetery. The village also lives on two long-established products: the anchovy, whose salting is a local tradition, and the terraced vineyard of the Collioure and Banyuls appellations, cultivated on the slopes of the Albères.
Demand comes from outside and is competitive. Of 4 841 dwellings, 3 460 are second homes and only 1 318 are occupied year-round: the permanent population, up by nearly 14 % since 2017, remains a small minority of the stock. Buyers look for a property in the old centre, around the Mouré or the Faubourg, or on the heights with a view. The renown of the village, voted favourite village of the French in 2024, sustains a pressure that has no equivalent in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
The average price in Collioure is 5 697 €/m², calculated on DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. It is the highest level on the coast of the Pyrénées-Orientales and more than three times that of Perpignan.
Because these are not the same markets. Perpignan is a residential city where local demand sets prices. Collioure is a village of 2 756 inhabitants whose stock is three quarters second homes, with demand coming from all over France and from abroad, and a supply locked in by the relief and by protection rules.
Very little. Across thirteen square kilometres, the Albères massif plunges straight into the sea: the steep slopes leave little flat land. Add to that the Coastal Act, the protection perimeters of the royal castle and of the fortifications that constrain building in the centre, the terraced AOC vineyard that ties up part of the territory, and the Natura 2000 site of the rocky coast of the Albères.
Yes, on the Narbonne to Portbou line, served by liO regional trains. Perpignan is about twenty minutes away, Cerbère about twenty-five. That is a rare asset for a coastal village of this size, and a value factor for properties close to the centre.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).