The average price per m² in Creil is 1 779 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 2 767 €/m². About 117 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Creil, in the Oise valley.
In Creil, the average price of an apartment comes out at 1 779 €/m². This average covers a stock where apartment blocks dominate by a wide margin: older buildings in the centre and on the left bank, the post-war housing estates of the Plateau Rouher built in the 1960s, more recent blocks near the station. Houses, fewer in number and concentrated on the heights and in the suburban districts, sit at a higher level, at around 2 767 €/m². These figures come from the DVF database, the French record of notarised sales, which lists the sales actually signed before notaries; they give a municipal benchmark, to be refined according to the area and to the condition of the property.
House : 2 767 €/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.
The Creil market is understood first of all through the train. Central town of an urban area of more than 100 000 inhabitants and a rail junction, it attracts households who work in the Paris region and are looking for prices more accessible than in the neighbouring Val-d'Oise. Demand focuses above all on apartments well connected to the station and on houses, which are rarer. The prospect of the Roissy-Picardie link keeps up interest in the areas near the tracks.
Supply remains marked by the weight of apartment blocks and post-war housing estates, which keeps the municipal average at a moderate level compared with the inner Paris ring. Urban renewal operations on the Plateau are changing some neighbourhoods, while the old centre and the left bank keep a more mixed building stock. As everywhere, energy performance has become a negotiating criterion: a dwelling poorly rated in the DPE, the French energy performance assessment, sells more slowly and is discussed more.
Central town of the Oise valley, Creil sits in the lower part of the range of its neighbours: close to Beauvais, appreciably below Compiègne and Sarcelles, further south on the rail axis towards Paris.
The name of Creil appears as early as the 7th century, around a ford on the Oise by the île Saint-Maurice. In the Middle Ages the town was organised on the left bank behind its ramparts, facing a royal castle commanding the bridge over the river. It is on the site of that castle, on the island, that the musée Gallé-Juillet stands today, which keeps a 19th century middle-class house and a house of faience. Not far away, the temple de l'amour, a small pavilion raised around 1780, has been listed as a historic monument since 1925.
Creil owes part of its identity to its faience works, founded in 1797. The factory was for a long time the town's leading employer, with several hundred workers in the middle of the 19th century, and the faience known as faience de Creil, then Creil-Montereau, became a reference in French ceramics. The works closed in 1895 after a fire, production being regrouped at Montereau afterwards.
The arrival of the railway in 1846 transformed the town. Creil became a rail junction with the opening of the lines towards Lille, Belgium, Beauvais and then Pontoise, and the metal industry took over from ceramics. This working-class and railway history shaped the neighbourhoods of the Plateau and of the left bank. Since the 1970s the municipality has known the difficulties common to former industrial towns and is the subject of urban renewal programmes.
With 36 301 inhabitants, Creil is the central town of an urban area of around 128 000 people, the most populated in the department of the Oise. Its housing stock is mostly collective, a legacy of industrial growth and of the post-war housing estates built on the Plateau. The old centre, the left bank and the surroundings of the station offer mainly apartments, while the houses are found on the heights and in the suburban districts. Buyers are for the most part households on measured budgets, first-time buyers and working people employed in the Paris region who are looking for more affordable housing within a reasonable train distance of Paris.
On average, 1 779 €/m² for an apartment, according to the sales registered with notaries and published in the DVF database, the French notarised sales record. This figure is a municipal average: it brings together an older studio in the centre as much as a renovated dwelling near the station. The address, the floor level, the year of construction, the presence of outdoor space and the energy label explain most of the gaps. To sell, a valuation based on comparable properties remains more reliable than the average alone.
The town reads in several parts. The historic centre, partly on the île Saint-Maurice, and the left bank concentrate the older building stock. The Gournay area, near the station, mixes apartment buildings and small blocks well connected to the train. The Plateau, with the Rouher estate, brings together the large residential blocks of the 1960s, now covered by urban renewal. These areas do not sell at the same level: closeness to the station and the condition of the property weigh heavily.
The gare de Creil is a genuine rail hub. It is served by the RER D, the Transilien ligne H, the TER Hauts-de-France and Intercités trains, with Paris Gare du Nord reachable in around thirty minutes depending on the service. The Roissy-Picardie link project, expected from 2027, should strengthen services towards Roissy airport and the south of the Val-d'Oise. This accessibility is a driver for the local market, particularly around the station.
Yes, but supply is less plentiful than for apartments. Houses are found above all on the heights and in the suburban streets, and trade at a level above apartment blocks, at around 2 767 €/m². As the number of sales there is more limited, the valuation of a house depends heavily on its condition, its plot and its location, more than on the municipal average.
The town is crossed by the Oise, and some areas close to the river are exposed to the risk of flooding. This information appears in the planning documents and in the statutory risk statement, to be consulted before any purchase. Depending on the address, building rules or insurance constraints may apply. Checking this point beforehand avoids unpleasant surprises and helps to place the value of a property correctly.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).