The average price per m² in Gilly-sur-Isère is 2 941 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 13 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Gilly-sur-Isère, at the mouth of the Combe de Savoie near Albertville.
In Gilly-sur-Isère, the benchmark price stands at 2 941 €/m² for an apartment. That level places the municipality clearly above Albertville, its immediate neighbour, and far below the resorts of the Tarentaise and the Beaufortain, less than thirty kilometres away. The housing stock is mainly detached and occupied year-round, without the weight of second homes that characterises higher altitudes. These values come from the DVF database, the French register of sales actually recorded by notaries. Annual volume remains low, which makes the average sensitive to the characteristics of each property.
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 Gilly-sur-Isère market is that of a peri-urban mountain municipality, with demand coming from working households in the Albertville area. The population has grown by 4,5 % since 2017, a moderate but steady pace that reflects genuine residential appeal without overheating. The very high owner-occupier rate, 80,2 % according to INSEE, limits turnover in the stock and therefore the volume of properties available: with around fifteen apartment sales a year, each transaction weighs heavily in the annual average.
The path ahead depends on two factors. The first is the economic health of the valley, between industry, services and winter tourism, which drives local employment. The second is the constraint on land: the valley floor is narrow, shared between the Isère, road infrastructure, business zones and farmland, which leaves little room for further detached housing. That scarcity supports the value of existing properties, in particular those well oriented and away from the main traffic routes.
The municipality holds an intermediate position: its prices are clearly above those of Albertville, its immediate neighbour, but remain far below those of Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe and Aime-la-Plagne, driven by the resort market.
The territory of Gilly-sur-Isère has been occupied since antiquity. Excavations carried out from the nineteenth century onwards uncovered Roman villas and sanctuaries dedicated to Mercury, whose finds are now displayed at the museum in Albertville. That presence is explained by the position of the municipality on the trade route linking Milan to Vienne across the Alps, at the mouth of the Combe de Savoie. The valley floor, flat and fertile, contrasts with the slopes framing it: this configuration fixed settlement and farming for centuries.
The built heritage keeps traces of the periods that followed, with a church of Gothic origin and a château dated 1630. The municipality long lived on valley farming and craft trades, in the shadow of Albertville, born in 1836 from the merger of L'Hôpital and Conflans. The twentieth century brought industry: two zones developed on municipal land, Terre-Neuve and Grand Pré, the latter now mainly retail. An incinerator operated at Terre-Neuve from 1984 to 2001, before closing for good.
The 1992 Winter Olympic Games, held in Albertville, left Gilly-sur-Isère a lasting piece of infrastructure: the cable-stayed bridge built in 1990, which crosses the Isère and eases movement along the valley. The municipality had 3 149 inhabitants in 2023, up 4,5 % since 2017, against around 750 at the start of the nineteenth century. It works as a residential and business municipality within the Albertville conurbation, with direct access to the road climbing towards the Tarentaise and the Val d'Arly.
According to INSEE, France's national statistics institute, Gilly-sur-Isère has 3 149 inhabitants and 91,8 % of its housing stock is occupied as a main residence: this is a market of permanent residents, which clearly sets the municipality apart from the neighbouring resorts. Houses account for 73,7 % of dwellings and apartments for 24,9 %, and the owner-occupier rate reaches 80,2 % of main residences, a high level. Buyers are working households from the Albertville conurbation and the valley, employed in services, industry and tourism, looking for a house with a garden without paying resort prices.
The benchmark price stands at 2 941 €/m² for an apartment. That figure comes from the DVF database, the sales actually signed before notaries. It is an average: a recent, well-oriented dwelling on the valley floor and an older apartment in the village needing renovation sit on either side of that base, depending on floor area, storey and energy performance.
Albertville is a town of more than eighteen thousand inhabitants, with a large stock of flats and post-war districts that weigh on its average. Gilly-sur-Isère, smaller and mainly made up of detached housing, offers recent individual homes on the valley floor with an owner-occupier rate of 80,2 % according to INSEE. These two housing structures explain most of the gap observed.
No, or barely. With 91,8 % main residences, Gilly-sur-Isère is a valley municipality lived in year-round, not a resort. The prices of Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe, Cohennoz or the Tarentaise, driven by second homes, belong to another market. Proximity to the ski areas does however matter for local employment and for the residential appeal of the valley.
The municipality is served by the trunk road climbing towards the Tarentaise and by the links to the Val d'Arly, with Albertville five kilometres away. The cable-stayed bridge built in 1990 for the 1992 Winter Olympic Games makes crossing the Isère easier. Albertville station provides rail links to Chambéry and, in season, to the resorts.
The valley floor exposes some sectors to flood risk from the Isère, governed by planning documents and risk prevention plans. Proximity to the Terre-Neuve and Grand Pré business zones should be taken into account for a residential project, in terms of both nuisance and traffic. The local planning scheme, available at the town hall, sets out the rules applying plot by plot.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).