The average price per m² in Hénin-Beaumont is 1 532 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 44 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Hénin-Beaumont, in the coalfield of the Pas-de-Calais.
The average price for apartments in Hénin-Beaumont stands at 1 532 €/m², based on the DVF transactions actually registered before notaries. A town of the Pas-de-Calais coalfield, lying between Lens and Douai, Hénin-Beaumont keeps an urban fabric inherited from its coal-mining past, made of terraced miners' rows, mining estates and more recent low-rise districts. The price level remains among the most affordable in the region, which draws first-time buyers and households looking for a house or an apartment on a contained budget. Demand rests on the road and rail links towards Lille, Lens and Douai, as well as on the presence of shops and employment zones. Location within the municipality, the condition of the property, the presence of a garden and the year of construction weigh heavily on the value seen from one sale to the next.
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 Hénin-Beaumont market sits within the momentum of the Pas-de-Calais coalfield, a dense working-class area where prices remain among the most affordable in the region. With more than twenty-five thousand inhabitants, the town acts as a retail and services hub for the surrounding municipalities. The conversion of the former mining districts, urban renewal and the setting up of business zones keep up steady demand, carried by households looking for affordable and well-served housing.
Several factors support the appeal of the municipality. The closeness of Lille, Lens and Douai, the road and rail links, and a price level below that of the metropolitan area are advantages for buyers, in particular first-time buyers. Conversely, the industrial image and the unevenness of the housing stock, between mining estates and recent developments, keep a contrasted market where location and the condition of the property account for most of the difference in value.
Hénin-Beaumont sits at the level of the coalfield towns such as Lens and Douai, and behind the municipalities of Artois further south such as Arras.
Hénin-Beaumont was born of the union of two former localities of Artois, Hénin-Liétard and Beaumont. The first appears in the records from the Middle Ages, granted a charter at the start of the thirteenth century, before being raised to a county at the end of the sixteenth century under Spanish rule, then attached to France in 1678. For a long time, the area lived from farming, on the fertile land of the plain between Lens and Douai.
The face of the municipality changed radically at the end of the nineteenth century with the working of coal. The opening of the pits turned Hénin-Liétard and its surroundings into a mining town: the companies built terraced rows, estates and facilities to house a large workforce, often drawn from far away. For several decades, the mine shaped the economic and social life of the whole municipality and gave it its working-class identity.
In 1971, Hénin-Liétard and Beaumont merged to form Hénin-Beaumont. The end of coal extraction, in the second half of the twentieth century, forced the town to reinvent itself: urban renewal of the former mining districts, development of retail and business zones, the arrival of food, textile and engineering industries. The listing of the coalfield as a World Heritage site has also brought this legacy back into the light, with its slag heaps and its distinctive estates.
Hénin-Beaumont has about 25 700 inhabitants, which makes it one of the main towns of the Pas-de-Calais coalfield. The housing stock mixes houses from the terraced miners' rows and mining estates, large low-rise estates built over the decades, and blocks of flats close to the centre and to the through roads. Main residences make up almost the whole stock, with a large share of tenants in the former mining districts and access to ownership made easier by low prices. Buyers are mainly working households from the conurbation, many of them first-time buyers, drawn by a measured budget and quick links to Lille, Lens and Douai.
The average price for apartments in Hénin-Beaumont is 1 532 €/m², based on the DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. That average covers gaps according to location, between the centre, the former mining estates and the low-rise developments, as well as according to condition, floor area and the presence of outdoor space. A precise valuation must always take account of the property's own features.
Hénin-Beaumont is among the towns of the coalfield where prices remain contained, a legacy of its industrial history and of a housing stock partly made up of former mining estates. That price level makes it a way in for first-time buyers and households on a measured budget. The trade-off lies in a market where the precise location and the condition of the property make a real difference in value.
Hénin-Beaumont is linked to Lille, Lens and Douai by motorway and by the regional rail network, which puts the main employment hubs of the area within a short distance. That accessibility is one of the drivers of local property demand, in particular for working people employed in the Lille metropolitan area who seek to limit their housing budget by settling in the coalfield.
The mining past still shapes the urban fabric of Hénin-Beaumont, with its terraced rows and estates, now partly renovated and valued as part of the listed coalfield. The market has adapted to that variety of housing: former miners' houses stand alongside more recent estates, which explains part of the price gaps from one district to the next. The condition and the renovation of the property are criteria to examine closely.
Hénin-Beaumont is among the most affordable municipalities of the Pas-de-Calais, which makes it a frequent point of entry for first-time buyers. The benchmark price of 1 532 €/m² on apartments sits clearly below that of the Lille metropolitan area. Buying a town house or an apartment there remains possible on a measured budget, provided the location and any works are properly assessed.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).