The average price per m² in Darnétal is 2 076 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 59 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Darnétal, a former textile town in the eastern suburbs of Rouen, in the Seine-Maritime.
The average apartment price in Darnétal comes to 2 076 €/m², according to the DVF sales registered with notaries. At the gates of Rouen, in the valleys of the Aubette and the Robec, the municipality keeps the trace of its long textile past, with its former mills and its converted factories. Its housing stock combines town houses, workers' housing and small apartment blocks, in a relief of valley floors and hillsides. The immediate closeness of Rouen, the bus service and the main roads, and prices among the most moderate in the urban area keep up demand from households seeking to buy. For an apartment, value varies with the floor area, the storey, the presence of outdoor space and the condition of the property. Renovated homes and houses with a garden on the heights sit above the average, while older properties in need of refreshing remain more affordable.
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 Darnétal market remains active, carried by its position at the gates of Rouen and by demand from households seeking to buy at affordable prices. The apartment transactions recorded each year in the DVF data show steady turnover, fed by first-time buyers and by working people of the urban area. Its housing stock, from the valley-floor home to the town house and the apartment block, offers a varied range that keeps the local market busy.
Several factors frame this price level. The closeness of Rouen, the bus service and the setting of the Aubette and Robec valleys support demand, while the more working-class profile of the municipality and the industrial legacy limit the rise in values. The energy performance of the older building stock has become a negotiating criterion, and the gap is widening between renovated properties and those still to be modernised.
Darnétal remains more affordable than Rouen, the neighbouring central city whose market dominates the urban area, and than Bois-Guillaume, a residential municipality of the northern plateau with higher prices. It sits, on the other hand, above Le Petit-Quevilly, on the left bank of the Seine. The municipality is among the most affordable addresses in the Rouen metropolitan area.
A Norman town bordering Rouen to the east, Darnétal forms one of its old suburbs. The two towns meet in the valleys of the Robec and the Aubette, two rivers that join the Seine at Rouen after a course of about ten kilometres. This valley position, at the eastern exit of Rouen, made Darnétal a place of passage and of activity from early on, shaped by water and by the relief of the hillsides.
Textiles marked the area deeply. Rouen, known for its cloth production since the Middle Ages, saw a revival of activity from the end of the 18th century with the making of dyed cottons. The industrialists of the Robec and Aubette valleys, whose textile know-how was already centuries old, set up mills, dye works and manufactories there. In the 19th century, the Aubette alone counted about a hundred mills, between textiles and paper mills.
The Robec and the Aubette supplied for nearly a thousand years the water power that allowed dozens of mills to settle on their banks. The decline of the textile industry moved Darnétal towards becoming a residential municipality of the Métropole Rouen Normandie, the metropolitan authority, where converted former factories and a heritage of mills remain. The town keeps its valley-floor character, between wooded hillsides and watercourses.
Darnétal has 9 566 inhabitants, at the eastern gates of Rouen, in the Seine-Maritime. A former textile town that has become a residential municipality of the Rouen metropolitan area, it attracts households seeking to buy at prices among the most moderate in the urban area. Buyers divide between first-time buyers on apartments and town houses, families aiming for more floor area with outdoor space on the hillsides, and working people employed in Rouen. Its housing stock, inherited in part from the industrial past, combines workers' houses, small apartment blocks and valley-floor homes. The immediate closeness of Rouen, the bus service and the setting of the Aubette and Robec valleys weigh in purchase decisions, in a municipality with a more working-class profile than the most sought-after areas of the northern plateau.
The average apartment price in Darnétal is 2 076 €/m², according to the DVF transactions actually completed with notaries. This average varies with the floor area, the storey, the presence of outdoor space and the condition of the property. A renovated apartment and an older valley-floor home in need of refreshing do not trade at the same level.
Yes. The municipality borders Rouen to the east and belongs to the Métropole Rouen Normandie, the metropolitan authority. It is served by the bus network and by the main roads, which makes it possible to reach central Rouen quickly. This immediate closeness, combined with moderate prices, makes it an option for households who work in the urban area.
The textile and working-class past of the town, the nature of its housing stock and its more working-class profile than the municipalities of the northern plateau explain prices among the most moderate in the Rouen metropolitan area. That is what makes it an entry point for first-time buyers who want to stay close to Rouen without the budget of the most sought-after areas.
The benchmark price of 2 076 €/m² covers apartments. Houses, many of them inherited from the industrial past or set on the hillsides, are aimed at families in search of floor area and outdoor space, and generally trade at another level. The choice depends on the budget, on the intended use and on the desired closeness to Rouen and to the valleys.
In part. The closeness of Rouen and low entry prices feed rental demand from working people in the metropolitan area. Small units and well-located town houses find takers. As everywhere, the yield depends on the location, on the condition of the property and on the work to be planned, notably on the older valley-floor building stock.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).