The average price per m² in Grand-Charmont is 1 078 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 1 677 €/m². About 26 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Grand-Charmont, in the Montbéliard urban area, in the Doubs.
The average price of apartments in Grand-Charmont stands at 1 078 €/m², based on DVF data, the French notarised sales database, which records the transactions actually registered with notaries. The municipality nonetheless remains a market of houses: the average price reaches 1 677 €/m² for detached housing, which accounts for about half of the stock. This average covers varied situations, between the suburban homes of the estates on the heights of la Chaux, the workers' houses inherited from the industrial rise of the area and the apartment blocks of the Fougères neighbourhood. The condition of the property, the size of the plot, the aspect and the closeness of the roads towards Montbéliard and Sochaux make values vary from one property to another.
House : 1 677 €/m²
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 Grand-Charmont market is that of a residential suburban municipality, modest in size but with steady turnover. The DVF data records in the order of 26 transactions a year, a volume consistent with a population of around 5 900 inhabitants and a stock shared between houses and apartments. Demand bears first of all on detached houses, whose supply is kept in check by the size of the municipal territory, which is largely built up.
Several factors sustain this price level. The immediate closeness of the Stellantis plant in Sochaux, the group's largest production site in France, and of the Montbéliard urban area roots the municipality in an industrial employment area that feeds demand for year-round housing. Conversely, the weight of the social housing stock and the presence of a neighbourhood under renewal weigh on average values, and the market remains sensitive to the state of the local car industry. Prices remain well below those of the upper Doubs municipalities close to Switzerland.
Grand-Charmont falls within the moderate price levels of the Pays de Montbéliard, close to those of Montbéliard and of Belfort. Besançon, the department capital, sits at a noticeably higher level.
The name Grand-Charmont goes back to old forms attested at the end of the twelfth century, around 1182-1196, in the spelling Calmons. The place is later recorded as Charmont-des-Bois, then Grand-Charmont from the seventeenth century onwards. The village grew in a small basin, at the foot of the hill of la Chaux, on a territory of 4,56 square kilometres whose altitude ranges from 324 to 425 metres.
From 1874, the army built the Fort Lachaux on the heights that overlook the municipality, as part of the fortified belt of the Belfort and Montbéliard region. The structure has since lost its defensive role and now hosts leisure and cultural activities. Long rural, the municipality moved into the industrial orbit of the area during the twentieth century, driven by the neighbouring car plant in Sochaux.
Population growth went with this rise: Grand-Charmont went from 823 inhabitants in 1936 to 5 482 in 1962, then peaked at 7 201 inhabitants in 1968. To house the workforce drawn by industry, post-war housing estates were built, among them the Fougères neighbourhood. Classified as a priority neighbourhood, this area is the subject of an urban renewal programme led by the inter-municipal authority and by the Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine, the French urban renewal agency. The municipality is also twinned with Limbourg, in Belgium.
Grand-Charmont has 5 873 inhabitants according to the latest census by INSEE, the French statistics institute. The municipality counts around 2 570 dwellings, of which close to 93 % are main homes, with a share of second homes that is almost nil and about 7 % of vacant dwellings: this is a stock lived in all year round, with no holiday dimension. Still according to INSEE, houses and apartments share the stock in almost equal parts, around 50 % each, and about 52 % of main homes are occupied by their owners. Social housing accounts for a significant share of the stock, above the 25 % threshold set by the loi SRU, the French law on social housing. Buyers are mainly households working in the employment area of Montbéliard and Sochaux, first-time buyers looking for an affordable house or families already settled in the urban area.
The average price of apartments in Grand-Charmont is 1 078 €/m², based on DVF data, the French notarised sales database, which records the sales actually completed before notaries. For houses, which dominate the local market, the average price stands at 1 677 €/m². These averages cover gaps depending on the condition of the property, the size of the plot, the aspect and the location, between the suburban heights and the areas of apartment blocks.
Yes. The Fougères neighbourhood is classified as a priority neighbourhood of urban policy within the Pays de Montbéliard. It is the subject of an urban renewal project bringing together the inter-municipal authority and the Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine, the French urban renewal agency, with works on the buildings and on the living environment. This kind of programme can change the appeal and the value of properties in the area over several years.
The municipality is served by the evolitY bus network, which links the whole of the Pays de Montbéliard urban area, including Montbéliard, Sochaux and Bethoncourt. The centre of Montbéliard is about three kilometres away, and the Sochaux plant is very close. The A36 motorway and the Montbéliard station, on the Belfort-Besançon line, complete the links towards the rest of the region.
Grand-Charmont sits in the lower range of prices in the Pays de Montbéliard, at a level close to that of Montbéliard and of Belfort. The municipalities of the upper Doubs located near the Swiss border, such as Morteau or Pontarlier, show markedly higher values. This moderation in prices comes from the weight of the social housing stock and from the industrial roots of the area.
The stock is shared almost equally between houses and apartments, but demand bears above all on detached housing. Houses trade on average at 1 677 €/m² and apartments at 1 078 €/m². The suburban homes of the hillside estates remain the most sought-after properties, while apartments offer more accessible entry budgets, in particular for first-time buyers of the area.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).