The average price per m² in Lambersart is 3 095 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 140 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Lambersart, a residential municipality on the banks of the Deûle, on the edge of Lille.
The average price of an apartment in Lambersart stands at 3 095 €/m². This average rests on a balanced housing stock, where detached houses hold as large a place as apartment buildings, which sets the municipality apart from most of its neighbours in the Lille metropolitan area. It includes bourgeois dressed-stone villas inherited from the early 20th century, brick townhouses and older rental buildings, alongside more recent developments. Houses, numerous here, trade on average at around 3 733 €/m², above apartments. These figures come from DVF data, the French notarised sales database, which lists the transactions actually signed with notaries.
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 Lambersart market rests on its status as a family residential municipality right next to Lille. Demand comes mainly from households in the metropolitan area looking for a greener and quieter setting without moving away from the centre, and who target houses with gardens first. This search keeps particular pressure on the villas of the Canteleu and Canon d'Or neighbourhoods, while apartments in the Bourg appeal to a wider clientele of first-time buyers and modest investors.
Supply remains constrained by the limited size of the municipality, already largely built up, and by the scarcity of older houses with character. New-build developments, few in number, are concentrated near the banks of the Deûle and along the avenue de l'Hippodrome. As everywhere in the region, energy performance has become a screening criterion, particularly for early 20th-century residences that are costly to renovate. The proximity of more expensive parts of Lille places Lambersart in an upper but accessible band of the market in the west of the conurbation.
Backing onto Lille, Lambersart sits in an intermediate band of the conurbation's market: below Lille and La Madeleine, its neighbour on the banks of the Deûle, but above Villeneuve-d'Ascq, a little further east.
The name Lambersart comes from the Latin Lamberti sartum, Lambert's clearing, meaning land cleared for farming. The municipality appears in the records in 1101, when a bishop of Tournai granted the altar of Lambersart to the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre in Lille. Long a simple farming village attached to the Weppes area, set on the bank of the Deûle, Lambersart remained rural until the 19th century, before transforming in the shadow of nearby Lille.
In 1787 the Colysée royal opened, an entertainment venue with open-air taverns, an open-air theatre and a ballroom, which closed during the Revolution but left its name to the neighbourhood and to the present-day Maison Folie du Colysée. The real turning point came with the urban development of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The avenue de l'Hippodrome, laid out from Canteleu to the Bourg, structured the new town, and Lille industrialists such as the Crépy family launched an upmarket residential estate there in 1900. From this golden age, fine residences remain, from the château de la Cessoie to the château des Ormes and the Villa Saint-Charles.
The Canon d'Or neighbourhood takes its name from a cabaret created in 1792 that welcomed soldiers from the citadel and the archers of the bird-shooting contest. Between 1910 and 1935, it filled with carefully designed houses inspired first by Art Nouveau and then by Art Deco, such as the Villa André designed by the architect Fayolle in 1913, or the Albert Samain school built by Albert Baert in 1931. The municipality also keeps the memory of its industrial past, marked by textiles and bleaching works, now erased in favour of an almost entirely residential fabric.
Lambersart has 27 090 inhabitants, a population slightly down since 2017 after decades of high density on the edge of Lille. The housing stock is split fairly evenly between detached houses and apartments, an unusual feature in a conurbation where apartment buildings often dominate, and the share of owner-occupier households is significant. Buyers are mainly families from the Lille metropolitan area looking for a house with a garden a few minutes from central Lille, managers drawn by the villas of the avenue de l'Hippodrome, and first-time buyers aiming rather at apartments in the Bourg or Canon d'Or. This residential profile, more family-oriented than student or speculative, gives the market relative stability.
For an apartment, the average comes out at 3 095 €/m², calculated from sales registered with notaries and published in the DVF database. This municipal average covers very varied situations, from an older studio to a recent family apartment near the Deûle. Address, floor, year of construction and the energy performance certificate explain most of the price differences. For an accurate valuation, it is better to rely on comparable sales than on the town average alone.
The municipality is organised around several areas with a strong identity. The Bourg, the former heart of the village, concentrates shops and services. Canon d'Or, with its fine Art Deco houses, and Canteleu, along the avenue de l'Hippodrome, are the most sought-after addresses, with their bourgeois villas. Champ de Courses and the Pacot-Vandracq area, further north, offer more mixed housing. Properties close to the banks of the Deûle and to green spaces stand out clearly from the rest.
Lambersart borders Lille directly, which is one of its assets. Metro line 2 serves the municipality, notably via Lomme - Lambersart - Arthur-Notebart station, and several bus routes connect the neighbourhoods to central Lille in a few minutes. The redeveloped banks of the Deûle also make it possible to reach the Citadelle and the centre on foot or by bike. This immediate proximity to the Lille employment hub weighs favourably on property values.
Both markets coexist, which is rare in the Lille metropolitan area. Houses, very present, range from the bourgeois dressed-stone villa to the brick townhouse, and trade on average above apartments, at around 3 733 €/m². Apartments, more affordable, suit first-time buyers and smaller budgets. Your choice depends mainly on your life plans and your ability to finance a property with a garden, which is rarer and more expensive.
The municipality is part of the Métropole européenne de Lille, the metropolitan authority, where renting out a furnished tourist property is regulated and requires formalities at the town hall. Some land near the Deûle may be exposed to flood risk: this information can be checked in the planning documents and the état des risques (the statutory natural-hazard disclosure) before any purchase. Finally, the energy performance certificate has become an important negotiating point on older houses from the early 20th century.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).