The average price per m² in La Garde is 3 452 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 4 793 €/m². About 218 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of the rock and the old village of La Garde.
The average price for apartments in La Garde stands at 3 452 €/m², based on the DVF transactions actually registered before notaries. The municipal stock is mainly made up of flats: according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, close to 65 % of dwellings are apartments, and more than four dwellings in ten were built between 1971 and 1990, during the transformation of the municipality into a residential suburb of Toulon. That average therefore covers different situations, between the blocks of the Thouar and La Planquette districts, the developments close to the university campus and the low-rise detached housing sectors of Sainte-Marguerite. Houses and villas, for their part, trade at around 4 793 €/m².
House : 4 793 €/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 La Garde market is one of volume rather than scarcity: around 218 apartment transactions a year, and 237 sales recorded in the 2025 reference year, for a municipality of 26 476 inhabitants. That regular turnover owes to the structure of the stock, built for the most part between 1971 and 1990 and made up of medium-sized condominiums. The municipal average therefore rests on a broad sample, but it covers distinct segments, from the studio intended for student letting to the large family apartment of the plain.
Three drivers support demand. The immediate closeness of Toulon, seven kilometres away, places La Garde in the ring of municipalities within reach of households that can no longer buy on the coast at Sanary or Six-Fours. Local employment is real, between the Toulon-Est business park, the shops and the university campus, which limits dependence on tourism alone. Lastly, the municipal coastline, reduced to three kilometres of lightly built shore around Magaud and San Peyre, leaves little buildable land by the sea.
La Garde sits above Toulon and La Seyne-sur-Mer, but distinctly below Hyères. The gap owes first of all to the absence of an urbanised seafront and to the weight of the 1970s and 1980s flat stock.
La Garde owes its name to its rock, a block of andesite that served as a lookout post in the Middle Ages and watched over the road to Toulon. The place appears in the records in 1056 in the form Guarda. The castle built on the promontory became in the 13th century a fief of the bishops of Toulon, before passing in the 15th century to the Castellane family, then to the Glandevès and finally to the Thomas. Its sentinel position exposed the village to every conflict in the region: in 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Savoyard troops besieging Toulon sacked the place.
After the surrender of Toulon to the English in 1793, Bonaparte had the Sainte-Marguerite military quarter transferred to La Garde, and the name has stayed with a sector of the municipality. In the 19th century, the village lived on the olive tree, the vine and the market gardening of the plain, while the quarries cut from the andesite of the rock the paving stones of the streets of Toulon. On 18 June 1894, the hamlet of Le Pradet, turned towards the sea, split from La Garde and became a municipality in its own right. In 1927, Abel Gance shot scenes of his film Napoléon in the old village.
The municipality tipped over in the middle of the 20th century: from 3 095 inhabitants in 1931, it grew to 26 476 inhabitants in 2023, absorbing the growth of the Toulon conurbation. The Thouar, La Planquette and Sainte-Marguerite districts were built in the plain, while the Toulon-Est business park settled at the gates of the town. In 1968, the first components of the University of Toulon were set up on a farming estate of some twenty hectares on the boundary with La Valette-du-Var, a campus that remains today the main one of the institution. The present shape of the town follows from this: a perched old core, a largely urbanised plain and three kilometres of coastline that has stayed discreet.
La Garde has 26 476 inhabitants for a stock of 14 099 dwellings. According to INSEE, 92 % of these dwellings are main residences and only 2,7 % second homes: people buy here to live year-round, not for holidays. Still according to INSEE, apartments account for 64,6 % of the stock and houses for 32,8 %. The split between owners (50,5 % of main residences) and tenants (47,4 %) is almost even, a distribution that is rare on the Var coast and is explained by the weight of working households employed in Toulon and by the student presence linked to the university campus.
The average price for apartments in La Garde is 3 452 €/m², calculated on the DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. It is a municipal average, which blends the 1970s blocks of the plain, the more recent developments and the small condominiums of the old village. Houses and villas come out at around 4 793 €/m². For a specific property, the floor area, the storey, the condition and the parking explain most of the gaps.
The old village, clinging to the andesite rock below the Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciade chapel, forms an old core of small houses and modest condominiums. Sainte-Marguerite, to the east, is the most low-rise and the greenest sector. Le Thouar and La Planquette gather most of the flat stock built in the plain between 1971 and 1990. Lastly, the coastal fringe, around the coves of Magaud and San Peyre, remains very lightly built.
The municipality is served by the station of La Pauline-Hyères, on the TER lines linking Toulon, Hyères and the Gapeau valley, and by the Mistral bus network of the Métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée. The A57 motorway runs along the territory and puts the centre of Toulon a few kilometres away. That service makes La Garde a municipality of daily home-to-work journeys towards the conurbation, which supports year-round demand.
The two markets coexist, but in unequal proportions. According to INSEE, apartments make up 64,6 % of the stock and houses 32,8 %, which makes the supply of houses distinctly scarcer and explains the price gap observed: 4 793 €/m² for houses and villas against 3 452 €/m² for apartments. Houses are concentrated above all in Sainte-Marguerite and on the heights, apartments in the plain.
Yes, on the small-floor-area segment. The main campus of the University of Toulon, set up in the municipality since 1968 with the SeaTech engineering school, keeps up a steady student letting demand for studios and two-room flats in the nearby districts. That demand partly explains the share of tenants, close to half of main residences according to INSEE, whereas the Var coast is rather marked by owner-occupation.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).