The average price per m² in Fleury-sur-Orne is 2 961 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 28 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Fleury-sur-Orne, in the southern suburbs of Caen.
In Fleury-sur-Orne, the average price stands at 2 961 €/m². That average covers a stock split almost evenly between apartments and houses, the municipality having built a great deal in recent years along the Orne and in the new districts south of the Caen conurbation. Recent dwellings in collective developments stand alongside village houses and older detached houses, which explains a real spread around that figure. The value comes from the DVF database, which records sales actually registered before notaries, and not from estate agency listings.
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 Fleury-sur-Orne market is driven first of all by its position in the Caen conurbation. The municipality has seen strong residential growth: the number of main residences rose from about 1 900 in 2012 to more than 3 000 in 2023 according to INSEE, thanks to the new developments built in the south of the conurbation. That production of dwellings feeds a steady supply, above all in apartments, which sets Fleury-sur-Orne apart from the neighbouring coastal municipalities where land is scarce. Demand comes from working households employed in Caen and looking for a more moderate cost of entry.
The second driver lies in the closeness of the employment and service centres of Caen, reachable in a few minutes by road and by the bus network. That accessibility supports solid rental demand, in line with the high share of tenants recorded by INSEE, and attracts investors to small recent apartments. The market remains less tight than that of central Caen or of the seaside resorts of the Calvados, which makes it a way in for first-time buyers. Selling times depend above all on the type of property and on its condition.
Fleury-sur-Orne sits at an intermediate level for the Caen conurbation: its prices stay close to those of Caen, above its neighbour Hérouville-Saint-Clair, but clearly below the seaside resorts of the coast such as Ouistreham.
Fleury-sur-Orne was long called Allemagne, a name inherited from antiquity: Alamannic troops are said to have been stationed there under the Roman Empire to guard a crossing on the Orne. The site was settled far earlier still, as the excavation of a neolithic necropolis has shown, some of whose funerary monuments, long barrows, reached several hundred metres. In the Middle Ages, the area was marked by the battle of Val-ès-Dunes, in 1047: the routed rebel horsemen tried to cross the Orne at the ford of Athis, where many drowned. The village then depended on a lordship that controlled this crossing point.
From the eleventh century, the subsoil of the municipality became a major resource. Caen stone was quarried there, a pale, soft limestone easy to cut, first in open workings then, from the fourteenth century, in underground galleries sunk by shafts. That stone served to build many Norman buildings and was exported as far as England, in particular for the Tower of London. In the nineteenth century, the activity reached its peak: several quarries worked at the same time and employed around a hundred men living on site. Extraction ceased only at the end of the 1950s, after the rebuilding of Caen.
In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, the municipality changed its name: Allemagne became Fleury-sur-Orne, in tribute to Fleury-devant-Douaumont, a village of the Meuse razed in the fighting at Verdun. The change was made official by a decree of 12 April 1917. During the battle of Caen, in 1944, the underground quarries sheltered thousands of civilians who came to take refuge from the bombing, and Canadian troops liberated the municipality in July 1944. After the war, Fleury-sur-Orne became fully part of the Caen conurbation, of which it is now a residential suburb south of Caen, carried by successive waves of building.
Fleury-sur-Orne has 5 941 inhabitants and works as a residential municipality in the southern suburbs of Caen. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, out of nearly 3 200 dwellings recorded in 2023, 94,2 % are main residences and only 1,2 % second homes, the sign of a market turned towards year-round living. The stock is almost balanced, with 55,5 % apartments and 43,2 % houses. Renting clearly dominates: 65,6 % of households are tenants and 33,3 % owners of their main residence, according to INSEE. Buyers are mainly first-time buyers and families looking for closeness to Caen at a price level below that of the city centre.
The average price recorded in Fleury-sur-Orne is 2 961 €/m². It is an average calculated on the sales actually registered before notaries and published in the DVF database, not on prices displayed by estate agencies. A given property may move away from it depending on the district, the age, the general condition and the presence of outdoor space. Our online valuation refines that average from the precise features of your dwelling.
Demand is split between the old village centre, around the town hall and the church, and the new districts developed in recent years in the southern extension of Caen, where the recent collective developments are concentrated. The banks of the Orne and the quiet low-rise streets attract families, while the new apartments appeal to first-time buyers and investors. Immediate closeness to Caen and to the road access remains the first criterion of choice for buyers.
The municipality is directly linked to Caen by the bus network of the conurbation, with lines serving the city centre and the employment hubs in a few minutes. Closeness to the Caen ring road and to the main routes makes car journeys easy towards Caen, the coast and the rest of the Calvados. Caen station, a few kilometres away, offers links to Paris Saint-Lazare, which places Fleury-sur-Orne in the daily orbit of the conurbation.
The market is fairly balanced: according to INSEE, the municipality has 55,5 % apartments and 43,2 % houses, a split uncommon for a municipality of this size and linked to the heavy recent collective building. The apartment supply, often new or recent, suits first-time buyers and measured budgets. Houses, from the 1960s detached house to more recent builds, remain sought after by families and are sometimes negotiated over a longer period, for want of an abundant supply.
On purchase, you pay the transfer duties, often called notary fees, calculated on the price of the property. Once an owner, you are liable for the property tax, the rate of which is voted each year by the municipality and by the authorities of the Calvados. The housing tax has been abolished on main residences, which account for more than nine dwellings out of ten in Fleury-sur-Orne according to INSEE. Check with the public finance centre for the rates in force.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).