The average price per m² in La Garenne-Colombes is 6 375 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 8 956 €/m². About 342 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of La Garenne-Colombes, at the gates of La Défense.
In La Garenne-Colombes the average price stands at 6 375 €/m². That average covers a stock that is very largely collective, where buildings from the early 20th century sit alongside the estates of the 1960s and the recent schemes of the ZAC des Champs-Philippe. Internal gaps come above all from the distance to transport: the surroundings of the T2 tramway, at Charlebourg, and the Les Vallées sector, near the station, do not trade at the same level as the inner streets of the centre. The figures come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries.
House : 8 956 €/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 7 094 €/m² in 2021, the average price in La Garenne-Colombes reaches 6 375 €/m² in 2026, roughly -10 % over the period.
The market of La Garenne-Colombes depends first of all on La Défense, whose business district borders the municipality to the south. Demand comes from managers and families seeking to cut their commuting time while staying in a faubourg fabric, with shopping streets and local schools. The T2 tramway, which reached the municipality with the extension to Pont de Bezons in November 2012, brought Charlebourg and Les Fauvelles closer to the employment hub and fed the transformation of these sectors. The plan to extend line 1 of the metro remains, for its part, at the study stage.
The second driver is the land constraint. With 30 197 inhabitants on less than two square kilometres according to INSEE, the municipality is already densely built: new supply comes almost solely from the conversion of existing land, as at Champs-Philippe. The stock is moreover occupied as a main residence to nearly 90 %, which limits quick trade-offs and the volume of properties put up for sale. That relative scarcity weighs on the number of annual transactions and on the room for negotiation a buyer has.
The municipality sits in the upper middle of its area, above its neighbour to the north and slightly behind Courbevoie. The gap remains clear with Levallois-Perret, closer to Paris.
The name of the municipality comes from a garenne, a wooded hunting ground belonging to Colombes, which tradition links to a gift by king Dagobert I to the abbey of Saint-Denis in the 7th century. The place stayed rural until the 19th century. The opening, on 26 August 1837, of the station known as Colombes-Embranchement, west of the pont de Charlebourg, on one of the first French passenger lines, changed things: the wooded plots were gradually divided up, tree-lined streets appeared and a well-off Parisian population settled in town houses. The area then earned its nickname of little Neuilly.
La Garenne broke away from Colombes by a law of 2 May 1910 and became a fully fledged municipality; Jean Bonal was elected its first mayor on 5 June of the same year. The young town industrialised at the same time: engineering workshops, textile activity and the Caséo-Sojaine factory, opened in 1908, where Deng Xiaoping worked in 1920 during his stay in France. That double identity, suburban districts on one side, industrial land on the other, shaped the territory for several decades. The Second World War hit the municipality hard: the bombings of 1943, aimed at the factories of the Seine loop, caused around 152 deaths.
The postwar years saw the rebuilding of the damaged sectors, then the gradual replacement of the factories by collective housing. The closeness of La Défense, laid out from 1958 on the neighbouring municipalities, then shaped all development. The arrival of the T2 tramway, extended from La Défense to Pont de Bezons in November 2012, put Charlebourg and Les Fauvelles a few minutes from the business district. The ZAC des Champs-Philippe, begun in the 2000s on the former industrial land of the north-west, added offices, housing, shops and public facilities, with the opening in December 2018 of the square des Bleuets and the jardin Bonnin. The town of today sets these three layers side by side.
According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, La Garenne-Colombes has 30 197 inhabitants for 14 534 households in 2023, on a little under two square kilometres: density exceeds 16 900 inhabitants per square kilometre. The stock reaches 16 129 dwellings, of which 89,3 % are main residences and only 2,4 % second or occasional homes: people buy here to live in the property. Owners occupy 47,4 % of main residences, the rest of the stock being let. Buyers are above all working households employed at La Défense or in Paris, and families looking for more floor space than they would get in Levallois-Perret or Neuilly-sur-Seine.
The average price recorded in La Garenne-Colombes is 6 375 €/m² for an apartment. That value is calculated from the DVF database, which records sales actually registered before notaries, and not from listings. It blends very different properties: studios close to the tramway, family apartments in the centre, new dwellings at Champs-Philippe. For your property, the storey, the aspect, the condition and the presence of outdoor space make that benchmark vary appreciably.
The municipality reads as five sectors: the Centre, around the town hall and the shopping streets; Les Vallées, residential and family-friendly, organised around its station and its market; Les Champs-Philippe, to the north-west, transformed by the ZAC of the same name; Charlebourg, along the T2 tramway, on the boundary with Nanterre; and Les Fauvelles, also served by the T2. Price gaps follow first of all access to transport and the age of the buildings.
Two stations of the T2 tramway, Charlebourg and Les Fauvelles, link La Défense in about ten minutes, then serve Issy and the Porte de Versailles to the south. Two stations of line L of the Transilien, La Garenne-Colombes and Les Vallées, lead to Paris-Saint-Lazare. The extension of line 1 of the metro beyond La Défense, towards the place de Belgique, is the subject of studies whose conclusions are expected in 2026, with no works timetable set to date.
Houses are in the minority in the municipality: most of the stock consists of apartments, and suburban supply is concentrated in the streets inherited from the subdivisions of the 19th century and the early 20th century. That scarcity shows in prices, since houses and villas trade at around 8 956 €/m², clearly above the apartment average. The number of sales stays low each year in that segment, which makes comparisons more fragile.
That operation converted the former industrial land of the north-west of the municipality into a mixed district: offices in the continuation of La Défense, housing, shops and public facilities, including a secondary school and a theatre. These deliveries regularly add recent units to the local market, with fittings and energy performance far removed from those of the older buildings. Two levels of market therefore coexist, and a valuation must say which one concerns your property.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).