The average price per m² in Eaunes is 2 405 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 26 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Eaunes, south of Toulouse.
The average price of apartments in Eaunes stands at 2 405 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually registered with notaries. This average covers a narrow market for flats: according to INSEE, the French statistics institute, houses account for 80 % of dwellings and apartments for only 19,8 %. Apartment sales are therefore few, of the order of twenty-six a year, and mostly involve recent schemes, the municipality having largely been built over recent decades. Floor area, year of construction and the presence of a parking space weigh markedly on the value of a property in a municipality where the detached house dominates.
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 first driver of the Eaunes market is the suburban spread of Toulouse. Since the 1970s, the urban area has pushed towards its southern ring households looking for houses more affordable than in the central city. Eaunes has benefited directly: its population has more than quadrupled since 1975 and continues to grow, with a rise of more than 6 % between 2017 and 2023 according to INSEE. This sustained demand from first-time buyer families keeps an active market for detached houses, even if the number of apartment sales remains modest, of the order of twenty-six a year.
The second factor is accessibility and land. The closeness of Muret, a sub-prefecture town and employment hub, of its station served by TER trains and of the A64 motorway places Eaunes in a complete living area, without depending on Toulouse alone. The availability of land, broader than in the inner ring, has allowed continuous estate development; it is shrinking as the municipalities of the Muretain become denser and as planning documents frame expansion. This gradual scarcity of buildable land supports the value of existing houses and steers part of demand towards older property.
Eaunes sits in the middle of the municipalities south of Toulouse: prices there are higher than in Muret, the neighbouring town, close to those of Cugnaux and well below those of Toulouse.
Eaunes is a municipality of the southern Toulouse area, some twenty kilometres from Toulouse and five kilometres from Muret, on the Haumont stream that joins the Ariège further north. Long attached to Muret, the territory separated from it in 1777 to become an autonomous municipality, whose first mayor was the notable Louis de Gayrard. The village was modest at the time: the census of 1793 counted only 319 inhabitants there. After the Revolution, several families fleeing the unrest settled and built residences, among them the château Gerber. Until the middle of the 20th century, Eaunes remained a farming village of the plain, away from the growth of Toulouse.
The main monument of the municipality is the Cistercian abbey of La Clarté-Dieu, founded in 1150 on land granted by the lords of Montaut. Attached to the line of Cîteaux through Morimond, by way of the abbeys of Berdoues and Planselve, it was first built in wood; the stone construction of the church and the monastery was only completed at the beginning of the 14th century, before being plundered in the following century. The establishment declined in the 17th century, then disappeared in 1790 with the dispersal of the community and the sale of its property. The church was listed as a historic monument in 1932, the chancel and the transept classified in 1967, the priory listed in 1992.
The present face of Eaunes took shape from 1975, when the Toulouse urban area reached its southern edge. The population, still 361 inhabitants in 1931, reached 1 488 in 1975, 3 389 in 1999, then 6 539 today: the municipality has grown more than fourfold in half a century, essentially through housing estates. In 1989, the council bought the abbey, laid out its park and opened it to the public. The restored conventual building has housed the Marie de France municipal media library and the council chamber since October 2008. Eaunes now belongs to the communauté d'agglomération du Muretain, the inter-municipal authority that structures the services and transport of this area south of Toulouse.
Eaunes has 6 539 inhabitants, according to INSEE, the French statistics institute. The municipality counts around 3 000 dwellings, of which 94,2 % are main homes and only 0,5 % second or occasional homes: the market is purely residential, with no tourist dimension. Again according to INSEE, 80 % of dwellings are houses and 19,8 % apartments, and 65,1 % of households own their home against 33,9 % who rent. This profile draws a population of families and working couples, often first-time buyers, who work in Muret or in the Toulouse urban area and are looking for a house with a garden within reasonable distance of their job. The stock is relatively recent, most dwellings having been built since the 1980s.
The average price of apartments in Eaunes is 2 405 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. This average rests on a limited number of sales, since the stock of the municipality is mostly made up of houses: apartments account for only one dwelling in five. Floor area, year of construction, the presence of a parking space and closeness to the centre and to Muret station make the value of a property vary noticeably.
In Eaunes, the market is overwhelmingly one of detached houses: according to INSEE, 80 % of dwellings are houses, often on estates and built since the 1980s and 1990s. A supply of apartments exists but remains marginal, concentrated in a few small recent blocks near the centre. A buyer looking for a flat will find more choice in Muret or towards Toulouse; in Eaunes, it is the house with a garden that structures most of the supply.
Eaunes lies some twenty kilometres south of Toulouse and five kilometres from Muret. Bus route 314 links the municipality to Muret station, served by TER Occitanie trains towards Toulouse-Matabiau station. By car, Toulouse is reached by the former route nationale 20, now the RD 820, while the A64 motorway, accessible at Muret, opens towards the south and the Pyrenean foothills. This combination of road and rail service supports the residential appeal of the municipality among working households from Toulouse.
Eaunes is part of the communauté d'agglomération du Muretain, the Muretain Agglo, an inter-municipal authority bringing together some twenty municipalities around Muret, south-west of Toulouse. It manages transport, water, waste and part of local planning, which bears on the planning documents and therefore on the areas open to construction. For a purchase or a sale, it is worth checking the local planning document in force as well as the local tax rates voted by the municipality and the agglomeration.
On the whole, yes. The municipality saw most of its growth after 1975, when the spread of the Toulouse urban area reached the south of the department: its population rose from around 1 500 inhabitants in 1975 to more than 6 500 today. A large share of the houses therefore dates from the 1980s to 2000, on estates, and a fraction of the stock comes from more recent schemes. This relative youth of the built fabric often translates into better energy performance than in the neighbouring older centres.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).