The average price per m² in Fougères is 1 792 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,4 to 2,2 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 17 % over 5 years and rose 3,0 % over the last 12 months, with about 138 transactions per year.
Fougères, sub-prefecture town of Ille-et-Vilaine, between the lower town of the château and the upper town of the belfry.
Apartments in Fougères sell at an average price of around 1 792 €/m², based on transactions actually completed (DVF data, the French notarised sales database). Four districts sit within 10 % of each other, from 1 758 €/m² in Bonabry to 1 926 €/m² in La Madeleine, while Les Cotterêts stand apart at 1 295 €/m², 28 % below the town-wide average. Houses, at 1 962 €/m², cost 9 % more than apartments. The market records 138 apartment sales a year.
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 1 532 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Fougères reaches 1 792 €/m² in 2026, around +17 % over the period.
Change in the average price per m² over twelve months, district by district, based on the most recent DVF sales.
The average price per m² for an apartment in each of the five districts of Fougères covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Fougères market has risen over time. The average apartment price went from 1 532 €/m² in 2021 to 1 792 in 2026, around 17 % over the period, and the rise continues over the last twelve months, at 3 %. What is falling is the number of sales: the municipality recorded 196 apartment sales in 2021, then 135 in 2024 and 141 in 2025. These are two different series, and here they move in opposite directions: a less active market is not a falling market.
Four districts out of five have risen over five years: Bonabry leads with 25 %, ahead of the Centre-ville and Saint-Sulpice, 17 % each, and La Madeleine, 11 %. Les Cotterêts fall back by 9 % over the same period. Over twelve months, the Centre-ville gains 10,1 % and Bonabry 6,6 %, while Saint-Sulpice shows -13,1 % and La Madeleine -2,3 %: these last two figures rest on 16 to 17 sales a year and need confirming before drawing any conclusion. Immover covers the ten statistical areas of the municipality, grouped into five districts following the boundaries of the Town's district councils; Fougères has no priority urban neighbourhood.
Fougères compared with the major French cities, on the average price per m² of an apartment.
Fougères grew out of its château, built around the year 1000 on a rocky spur encircled by a meander of the Nançon, whose water serves as a natural moat. In 1166, Henry II Plantagenet took the fortress and had it razed; it was rebuilt, then enlarged from 1256 on the initiative of Jeanne de Fougères, who had the Mélusine and Gobelin towers raised. A border stronghold between the Duchy of Brittany and the Kingdom of France, the town became Breton in 1428 and endured the sieges of 1449 and 1488.
The town developed as two separate quarters. Below, around the church of Saint-Sulpice, built from the fifteenth century, lived the tanners, drapers and dyers who worked with the water of the Nançon; the place du Marchix, lined with half-timbered houses, served as the livestock market. Above, the new quarter grew from the twelfth century around the church of Saint-Léonard, and the belfry was raised there at the end of the fourteenth century. The rue Nationale was rebuilt after the fires of the eighteenth century under the direction of the architect Jacques V Gabriel.
During the Revolution, the town was taken by the Vendéens on 3 November 1793 and retaken by the Republicans on 18 November. Balzac set « Les Chouans », published in 1829, in Fougères, and Victor Hugo part of « Quatrevingt-treize »; Juliette Drouet, his companion, was born in Fougères on 10 April 1806. In the nineteenth century, shoemaking transformed the town: 2 200 workers in 1874, 11 000 in 1890 in 27 factories, 38 factories in 1913. The great strike of 1906-1907 hit 32 factories for several months, and the JB Martin brand was founded in 1921.
The Allied bombing raids of 6 to 8 June 1944 killed 256 people and hit the station district hardest. The Vitré to Fougères line, opened in 1867, lost its passenger service in March 1972, and a shopping centre replaced the station after freight traffic ended in 1991. From 1968 to 1974, nearly 1 000 social housing units were built at Les Cotterêts. Fougères had 20 307 inhabitants in 2023, a population almost unchanged since 2017, and 57,9 % of its housing stock consists of apartments.
An apartment in Fougères costs 1 792 €/m², an affordable level for a sub-prefecture town 45 kilometres from Rennes as the crow flies. The municipality has 42,4 % owner-occupiers and 56,3 % tenants, and 22,7 % of main residences are social housing. The typical buyer is a first-time buyer, a family, a worker employed in the Fougères area, a retiree, or an investor looking to let. Three points to know before buying. The first is the structure of the market: La Madeleine, Saint-Sulpice, the Centre-ville and Bonabry sit within 10 % of each other, from 1 758 to 1 926 €/m², while Les Cotterêts sell at 1 295 €/m². Outside Les Cotterêts, the condition of the property and the floor count for more than the address. The second is the gap between houses, at 1 962 €/m², and apartments: 9 %. The third is the absence of a railway station: Rennes is reached by road or by coach, which matters for a buyer who works there.
The average price in Fougères is 1 792 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 438 to 2 154 €/m² depending on the district. Property portals show asking prices, 10 to 20 % above the prices actually recorded.
La Madeleine, in the south of the town, at 1 926 €/m², 7 % above the town-wide average. Saint-Sulpice, the lower town of the château, follows at 1 887 €/m², then the Centre-ville at 1 865 and Bonabry at 1 758. These four districts sit within 10 % of each other; Les Cotterêts, at 1 295 €/m², are the most affordable district, 33 % below La Madeleine.
The district is a post-war housing estate of around 1 000 social housing units built from 1968 to 1974, where apartment sales concern a stock dating from the 1970s. At 1 295 €/m², it sits 28 % below the town-wide average, while the four other districts stay within 10 % of one another.
Yes. The average apartment price went from 1 532 €/m² in 2021 to 1 792 in 2026, around 17 %, and it is still gaining 3 % over twelve months. The number of sales, however, has fallen: 196 apartment sales in 2021, 135 in 2024 and 141 in 2025. Fewer transactions do not mean lower prices.
No. The Vitré to Fougères line lost its passenger service in March 1972 and its freight traffic in 1991; a shopping centre now stands on the site of the former station, in Bonabry. The nearest stations are Vitré and Rennes, and the town is served by the RN 12 road and by BreizhGo regional coaches.
Houses sell at 1 962 €/m², 9 % more than apartments at 1 792 €/m². Houses make up 40,5 % of homes in the municipality. The plot, the condition of the roof and energy performance make the difference between two properties.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).