The average price per m² in La Croix-Valmer is 6 450 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 9 188 €/m². About 94 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez.
The average price in La Croix-Valmer stands at 6 450 €/m², based on DVF (the French notarised sales database) transactions actually recorded at the notary. The municipality has 6 443 dwellings for 3 855 inhabitants: there are more dwellings than inhabitants, and seven out of ten are second homes. Houses trade well above apartments, at around 9 188 €/m².
House / villa : 9 188 €/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.
After 5 587 €/m² in 2021, the average price in La Croix-Valmer reaches 6 450 €/m² in 2026, an increase of roughly +15 % over the period.
The La Croix-Valmer market follows the logic of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez: broad outside demand against a locked-up supply. With 2 % of dwellings vacant, there is practically no dormant stock the market could absorb. Sales volumes therefore vary more than prices from one year to the next: when demand weakens, it is transactions that fall back, not values.
The land constraint here is stronger than elsewhere on the Var coast, because it is permanent on part of the territory. The caps Lardier and Taillat, acquired by the Conservatoire du littoral, will never return to the market. Added to the unbuildable coastal strip and the fire hazard in the contact zones with the Massif des Maures, they durably reduce the pool of available land, which supports the valuation level at around 6 450 €/m² in 2026.
Placed back in its setting, La Croix-Valmer sits in the lower half of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, a notch below Grimaud and clearly below Saint-Tropez and Ramatuelle.
La Croix-Valmer is a young municipality. Until 6 April 1934, its territory was part of Gassin: that is the date on which it became a municipality in its own right. The name refers to an old tradition, that of the vision of Constantine and his cross, embodied by a stone cross erected on 16 April 1893. Modern development, for its part, dates from 1882, when silk merchants from Lyon created the Domaine de la Croix and launched the agricultural and residential development of the site.
The municipality spreads out at the foot of the Massif des Maures, opening onto the bay of Cavalaire, with seven sandy beaches spread over around six kilometres of coast: Gigaro, Sylvabelle, the plage du Débarquement, the bay of Briande. This last name recalls 15 and 16 August 1944, when the American Third Division and then General de Lattre de Tassigny's Army B landed on this coastline.
The area also bears the mark of more recent events. On 24 July 2017, a fire swept through more than five hundred hectares from Gigaro to l'Escalet, entirely destroying the vegetation of the cap Taillat. The caps Lardier and Taillat, owned by the Conservatoire du littoral (France's coastal protection agency), are today durably withdrawn from any development.
Demand is almost entirely from outside. With 4 551 second homes out of 6 443 dwellings and a vacancy rate of 2 %, there is virtually no available stock left off the market. Buyers are looking for a holiday home close to the Gigaro beaches or an apartment in the village, in an area that remains a notch below Saint-Tropez and Ramatuelle in price while offering the same setting. Côtes de Provence winegrowing and seaside tourism shape local life, with marked seasonality.
The average price for apartments is 6 450 €/m² and for houses 9 188 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually recorded at the notary. The municipality sits in the upper part of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez market, below Saint-Tropez and Ramatuelle.
Because the housing stock is sized for summer. The municipality has 6 443 dwellings for 3 855 permanent inhabitants, including 4 551 second homes. This is the marker of a holiday market: the demand that sets prices comes from outside households, not from the resident population.
Very little. The Loi Littoral (France's coastal protection law) makes the hundred-metre strip unbuildable outside already urbanised areas. The caps Lardier and Taillat belong to the Conservatoire du littoral and are covered by cumulative protections, including Natura 2000 and the membership area of the Port-Cros national park. Forest-fire risk is also the subject of a June 2024 prefectural notice (porter à connaissance), enforceable against planning permissions.
No, and the gap shows it: nearly 42 % difference between the two averages. In this municipality, the house with land and proximity to the beaches count for much more than floor area alone. The immover estimator starts from the observed price by property type, then adjusts for floor area and location.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).