The average price per m² in Eaubonne is 3 661 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 121 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Eaubonne, in the Montmorency valley, in the Val-d'Oise.
The average price recorded in Eaubonne stands at 3 661 €/m² for apartments. That average covers a mixed stock: blocks close to the Ermont-Eaubonne station and the centre, and wide residential sectors born of the subdivision of former château parks, such as the Paul Bert district or that of the Petit-Château. Houses, very present in a commune shaped by those subdivisions, trade at a higher level, around 4 554 €/m², a gap that reflects steady demand for the family home. These figures come from the DVF database, which lists sales actually registered before notaries.
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 market in Eaubonne rests on its position in the Montmorency valley and on the quality of its rail service. The commune captures spillover demand from Paris households and outer-ring families, drawn by the chance to buy a house with a garden some twelve kilometres from Paris. The houses of the Paul Bert and Petit-Château districts, born of the former château parks, remain the most contested properties, while apartments near the station answer demand from first-time buyers and working households.
Supply stays constrained by the small size of the territory, 4,42 km², already largely built up, which limits new schemes and keeps tension on family houses. As everywhere in the Paris region, energy performance has established itself as a negotiating criterion, above all on older houses and pre-1975 blocks. Closeness to communes such as Ermont, with which Eaubonne shares its station, and Montmorency places the town in an intermediate band of the valley's market.
Backing onto its station shared with Ermont, Eaubonne sits in the middle of its band of the Montmorency valley: close to Ermont, slightly below Montmorency, and above Franconville.
The name Eaubonne comes from the Latin Aqua Bona, the good water, in reference to the quality of the local springs. Long a modest rural village of around two hundred inhabitants in the middle of the 18th century, the commune is a former holding of the abbey of Saint-Denis, attached to the lordship of Montmorency. Its fate turned in 1762, when Joseph-Florent Le Normand de Mézières acquired the lordship and called on the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux to design a coherent built ensemble, châteaux, pavilions and houses with regular lines.
From that period survives the Petit-Château, on the boulevard du Petit-Château, the only building attributed with certainty to Ledoux and built around 1776. Eaubonne was long nicknamed the town of fifteen châteaux, most of which disappeared over the 20th century, their parks gradually broken up into housing developments. Since the 1920s, the town has read as several sectors that follow the outlines of the former fiefs and their estates, such as the Petit-Château district, the former fief of Bussy whose park was divided in 1926.
The arrival of the railway in 1846 launched urban growth and made the population rise rapidly, multiplying it tenfold in a century. The villas and houses of the residential districts, including Paul Bert, come directly from those subdivisions. The opening, in 2006, of a direct rail link to Paris-Saint-Lazare strengthened the appeal of the commune for people working in the capital.
Eaubonne has around 26 211 inhabitants on a compact territory of 4,42 km², in the heart of the Montmorency valley and some twelve kilometres north-west of Paris. The housing stock is clearly split between flats concentrated near the station and the centre, and vast residential areas inherited from the subdivision of château parks, such as Paul Bert or the Petit-Château. That double nature draws varied profiles: Paris-region families looking for a house with a garden, first-time buyers aiming at a well-connected apartment, and Paris households looking for more space a short distance from the capital. The quality of the rail service weighs heavily in buying decisions, as does closeness to schools and local shops.
For an apartment, the average stands at 3 661 €/m², calculated from sales registered before notaries and published in the DVF database. It is a town-wide average, mixing older studios, apartments near the station and more recent properties. The address, the floor level, the year of construction and the energy performance explain most of the gaps. For a reliable valuation, comparable sales are a better guide than the town's average alone.
The commune reads as sectors inherited from the former estates. The Paul Bert district, to the west near the station, is a quiet fabric of detached houses sought after by families. The Petit-Château, the former fief of Bussy divided in 1926, mixes houses with a few apartment blocks. The centre and the surroundings of the station hold more blocks, while the Champ de Courses sector completes the residential supply. These settings do not all sell at the same level.
The Ermont-Eaubonne station is a strong point of the commune: it brings together three networks, Transilien line H towards Paris-Nord, line J towards Paris-Saint-Lazare since 2006, and the RER C. The Paul Bert district is a few minutes' walk from that station, and the Champ de Courses halt, on line H, serves another sector of the town. This multiple service, rare in the outer ring, makes it possible to reach several Paris hubs without a change.
Yes, more easily than in many inner-suburb communes. Eaubonne was built on the subdivision of the parks of its former châteaux, which produced wide districts of houses and villas, notably around Paul Bert and the Petit-Château. Houses trade at a higher level than apartments, around 4 554 €/m². Their value depends above all on the size of the plot, the condition of the property and closeness to the station.
Letting a furnished tourist rental comes under the rules applying in the Paris region and means checking with the town hall. Part of the older building stock lies near protected monuments, such as the Petit-Château by Ledoux, which can add architectural constraints on work to facades or roofs. Finally, energy performance, measured by the energy certificate, has become a point of attention, in particular on pre-war houses.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).