The average price per m² in Dieppe is 2 344 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 321 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Dieppe, on the côte d'Albâtre.
The average price of apartments in Dieppe stands at 2 344 €/m², based on DVF sales actually registered before notaries. That average covers an uneven stock: blocks of the rebuilt centre and the seafront, fishermen's houses of Le Pollet, detached homes of Janval and Les Bruyères, large estates of Neuville and Val Druel. The gap is clear between an apartment with a view over the Channel, near the boulevard de Verdun, and a home in the outer districts. The commune also has a high share of vacant dwellings, which weighs on the value of properties in need of work.
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 1 944 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Dieppe reaches 2 344 €/m² in 2026, roughly +21 % over the period.
The Dieppe market is steady rather than tight, with on the order of 320 apartment sales recorded each year in the DVF data for a commune of 28 496 inhabitants. The town's population has been declining for several decades, which limits pressure on prices, but the make-up of the stock keeps trade alive: two thirds apartments, a majority of tenants and a share of vacant dwellings close to 11 %, which feeds a constant flow of properties in need of work. First-time buyers coming out of renting are the base of demand.
Several drivers of activity feed the area. The port, at once cross-Channel, commercial, fishing and leisure, shapes the local economy, and the Alpine factory, based on the avenue de Bréauté since 1969, remains the main industrial employer. Some fifteen kilometres to the north-east, the Penly nuclear site and the plan for new reactors mobilise construction and subcontracting jobs over several years. Tourism completes the picture, with the seafront, the link to Newhaven and a share of second homes of 12 %, which supports demand for properties with a view.
Dieppe sits in the lower part of the range of the Normandy and Picardy coastal towns shown here, below Rouen and Le Havre. The gap becomes wide with Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, a small tourist resort in the bay of the Somme.
The name Dieppe comes from a river name recorded in the 11th century, formed on a Germanic or Norse root meaning deep, which replaced the older name Tella. Vikings settled at the mouth of the Arques around 910, and the town was founded after 1015 by Richard II, Duke of Normandy, who sought to turn Norman expansion towards the sea. After the conquest of England in 1066, Dieppe became a port of call for cross-Channel trade. Its high point came in the 16th century, under Francis I: the shipowner Jehan Ango, born around 1480 and died in 1551, sent his ships towards Sumatra, Brazil and Canada, while the local school of cartography produced the planisphere of Pierre Desceliers in 1546.
The Anglo-Dutch bombardment of 1694 destroyed the town almost entirely. It was rebuilt on a regular grid plan, of which the arcades of the Bourse, raised in the 18th century to plans by Ventabren, architect to Louis XIV, still bear witness. Ivory craft, inherited from maritime links with Africa and the Indian Ocean, then occupied dozens of workshops and produced the Pollet figurines sold to visitors. The fashion for sea bathing did the rest: the Duchess of Berry bathed at Dieppe on 3 August 1824 and returned each season until 1829, drawing the aristocracy. The railway arrived in 1848, with a first train on 28 June and services opening on 1 August.
On 19 August 1942, Operation Jubilee threw more than 6 000 men onto the beaches of Dieppe and the neighbouring communes, close to 5 000 of them Canadians. The failure was total: 907 Canadians were killed and 1 946 taken prisoner in a single day. The town was liberated on 1 September 1944 by the 2nd Canadian Division, without fighting. The post-war years transformed its urban shape: from 1965, under the mandate of mayor Jean Tournier, Janval was built up and a vast housing programme gave birth to the districts of Val Druel and Les Bruyères. The neighbouring commune of Neuville-lès-Dieppe was attached to it by merger on 1 January 1980. Jean Rédélé had founded Alpine there in 1955, whose factory has occupied the avenue de Bréauté since 1969.
Dieppe has 28 496 inhabitants. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the commune records 19 808 dwellings, of which 76,6 % are main residences, 12,0 % second homes and 11,4 % vacant homes, a high share that feeds a steady supply of properties in need of work. Again according to INSEE, apartments account for 69,4 % of the stock, and only 35,8 % of main residences are lived in by their owners, against 63,3 % tenants. Buyers are therefore first of all local households and first-time buyers coming out of renting, joined by retired households and second-home buyers from Rouen or the Paris region.
The average price of apartments in Dieppe is 2 344 €/m², based on DVF sales actually completed before notaries. That average covers wide gaps depending on the sea view, the floor level, the presence of a lift, the condition of the property and the service charges. An apartment on the seafront and a home in the large estates of Neuville or Val Druel do not trade at the same level.
The seafront and the centre rebuilt after 1694, around the boulevard de Verdun, the Grande Rue and the Saint-Jacques district, concentrate the highest values. Le Pollet, a former fishing quarter east of the harbour, attracts for its character and its view. Janval, Les Bruyères and Les Vertus offer a quieter stock of detached houses. Neuville and Val Druel, marked by the large estates of the 1960s and 1970s, remain the most affordable sectors.
Dieppe station, opened in 1848, is linked to Rouen, from where trains run to Paris-Saint-Lazare. The route nationale 27, a dual carriageway, links the town to Rouen in about an hour, and Dieppe lies around 170 kilometres north-west of Paris. The port also provides a regular cross-Channel link to Newhaven, in England, used by residents and British visitors alike.
The market is mainly one of flats: according to INSEE, 69,4 % of the commune's dwellings are apartments, and the reference price of 2 344 €/m² applies to that segment. Houses are concentrated in Le Pollet, Janval, Les Bruyères and on the hillsides, with very varied types, from the small fishermen's town house to the villa on the cliff edge. The choice depends above all on budget, on intended use and on tolerance for building work.
Dieppe is a coastal commune: building and extension projects there are framed by the Coastal Act, and the sectors close to the cliffs are the subject of particular vigilance over the retreat of the shoreline. The historic centre rebuilt after 1694 and the surroundings of the castle carry heritage protection perimeters that govern work on facades and joinery. These rules are checked with the town hall planning department before any project.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).