The average price per m² in Gennevilliers is 4 578 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 117 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Gennevilliers, on its peninsula of the Seine, in the northern inner ring of Paris.
The average price recorded in Gennevilliers, in the Hauts-de-Seine, stands at 4 578 €/m². That average covers a housing stock overwhelmingly made up of flats: the municipality was built around post-war housing estates put up between the 1950s and 1970, including the Luth district and its towers, complemented by more discreet detached sectors and by recent new-build schemes. Detached houses are rare there and are concentrated in the old streets of the centre. The north of the municipality is taken up by the port of Gennevilliers and its industrial zone, which clearly separates the feel of one sector from another. The storey, the condition of the property, closeness to the metro and the tram and energy performance explain most of the price gaps. The figures come from the DVF database, which records the sales actually signed before notaries. It is a municipal benchmark, to be refined on comparable properties for your own valuation.
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 Gennevilliers market reads first of all through its catching-up. Long seen as an industrial and working-class municipality set apart from the price dynamics of the Hauts-de-Seine, the town has seen its accessibility transformed with the extension of Line 13, the arrival of the T1 tram and the RER C service. Demand comes above all from first-time buyers and Paris-region workers who find here price levels far more contained than in the adjoining municipalities, while still reaching Paris and La Défense quickly.
Supply rests on a dense stock of flats and on the new-build schemes that accompany urban renewal, in particular around the Luth. That recomposition creates a market running at several speeds: on one side recent or refurbished homes close to transport, on the other a social stock and older buildings whose energy performance weighs more and more in negotiations. The weight of the port and industrial sector in the north also keeps marked gaps from one district to another, which any valuation has to take into account.
Backing onto the Seine, Gennevilliers remains more affordable than its Hauts-de-Seine neighbours such as Asnières-sur-Seine or Colombes, while sitting above Argenteuil, on the other bank of the river.
Gennevilliers occupies a peninsula drawn by a bend of the Seine, long covered with market gardens. In the 19th century, the plain of Gennevilliers received the waste water of Paris through a vast network of sewage farms, which turned the soil into a zone of intensive market gardening supplying les Halles. That landscape of Seine banks and farming plain drew the impressionist painters, Claude Monet having painted the Seine at the level of Gennevilliers and Argenteuil. The church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine recalls the original village core, before industry completely changed the look of the municipality.
From the 1920s, the digging of the port of Gennevilliers opened a new era. Having become the leading river port of the Île-de-France, it drew metalworking, chemicals and the car industry, and made Gennevilliers a working-class municipality emblematic of the northern suburbs. After the Second World War, to house that population, the town covered itself with post-war social housing estates. The Luth district, with its towers raised in the 1970s, illustrates that period of rapid building which still structures a wide part of the urban fabric.
The last decades have opened up the municipality. The extension of Line 13 of the metro to its terminus Les Courtilles, on the boundary with Asnières, then the arrival of the T1 tram, brought Gennevilliers closer to Paris and to La Défense, which the RER C station also serves. Urban renewal operations, notably around the Luth, have accompanied that change with demolitions, rebuilding and new housing schemes. The municipality keeps its double face: a north turned towards the port and industry, a south that is residential and being recomposed.
According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, Gennevilliers has 50 979 inhabitants. The housing stock is almost entirely made up of flats, with a large weight of social housing inherited from its industrial and working-class past. Tenants are in the majority and owner-occupiers remain a minority, even if new-build schemes have opened ownership to new households. Two buyer profiles cross here today. On one side, first-time buyers and working people employed in Paris or at La Défense, drawn by prices markedly more affordable than in the neighbouring municipalities of the Hauts-de-Seine and by improving transport. On the other, families already settled who are looking for a larger apartment or one of the few detached houses of the centre.
The average price recorded is 4 578 €/m², calculated from the sales registered before notaries and published in the DVF database. It is a municipal average, which adds together the small flat in a housing estate and the new or renovated home close to transport. The storey, the condition of the property, closeness to Line 13 or the T1 tram and the energy survey explain most of the gaps. A reliable valuation rests on comparable sales in your sector, not on the average alone.
The municipality mixes districts of housing estates such as the Luth, an older centre around the church and the town hall, les Grésillons to the south near the station, and a vast port and industrial sector to the north. The south, close to the tram and the RER C, benefits from the dynamics of the inner ring, while the surroundings of the port follow a logic of industry. These very different settings do not sell at the same level, hence the value of reasoning by sector rather than at the scale of the whole town.
The municipality is served by Line 13 of the metro, whose terminus Les Courtilles lies on the boundary with Asnières, by the T1 tram and by the RER C station, which reach Paris and the employment hub of La Défense. Several bus lines complete the network. That accessibility, long limited, has clearly strengthened with the extension of the metro and the arrival of the tram, which today weighs on the value of properties close to the stops.
Supply is very unbalanced. The stock is almost entirely made up of flats, and houses are limited to a few old detached streets of the centre. They rarely come onto the market and their price per square metre depends above all on their condition, their plot and their location rather than on the municipal average. For a seller as for a buyer, sale references on this kind of property are few, which makes valuation all the more dependent on precise comparables.
The operations carried out in recent years, notably around the Luth, have led to demolitions, rebuilding and new housing schemes, which has changed the image of several districts. Recent or refurbished properties close to transport benefit from that momentum, while older, energy-hungry homes remain more dependent on their condition. For a seller, the precise location relative to the stops and the energy rating have become important bargaining criteria.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).