The average price per m² in Le Bouscat is 3 804 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 5 307 €/m². About 208 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Le Bouscat, on the north-western edge of Bordeaux.
The average price recorded in Le Bouscat stands at 3 804 €/m², and the house segment comes out at 5 307 €/m². That average covers an almost balanced housing stock: 56,5 % apartments and 43,3 % houses according to INSEE, the French statistics institute, in a fully built-up municipality of 5,28 square kilometres. A renovated échoppe, the low stone house typical of the Bordeaux area, near place Gambetta, a recent apartment along the route du Médoc and a detached house close to the parc de la Chêneraie do not belong to the same market. The figures come from the DVF database, which records sales actually registered before notaries.
House : 5 307 €/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 Le Bouscat market rests first of all on its position. The municipality gathers 25 081 inhabitants over 5,28 square kilometres, in direct contact with Bordeaux to the south-east, and has belonged to the Bordeaux inter-municipal authority since the urban community was created in 1968. It works as a residential extension of the north-west of the central city, with households settled all year round: 90,3 % of the stock is made up of main residences according to INSEE. Buyers who can no longer find a house inside the Bordeaux boulevards fall back on this immediate ring, which keeps up a steady flow of demand on a stock that is no longer expanding.
The second engine is the interplay between transport and the shortage of land. The arrival of the tram in 2019, then its extension towards Eysines in 2020, brought the municipality closer to the centre of Bordeaux in journey time, which counts for more than distance in the choices buyers make, and went along with the renewal of the building stock on the route du Médoc. For want of free land, housing is produced by rebuilding plots that are already occupied, which limits annual volumes. The public facilities, racecourse, parc de la Chêneraie, suburban hospital and the shops of place Gambetta, support the residential appeal.
Le Bouscat stands in the upper part of its ring: above Mérignac, its neighbour to the west, and well above Cenon on the right bank, but below Bordeaux, to which the municipality is directly attached.
Until the 11th century, the site was no more than a hamlet of vines and market gardens ringed by forest. The first known mention dates from 1180: Arnaud d'Illac, lord of Castel Endorthe, gave a plot of woodland to the Saint-Seurin chapter of Bordeaux, under the name lo Boscat. The estate passed around 1182 into the holdings of the family of Guillaume de Bordeaux. Its position on the pilgrim road to Compostela explains its growth. Under the Ancien Régime, the parish was attached to that of Caudéran. The territory is listed as Le Bousquat in 1793. The Sainte-Clotilde church, in neo-Romanesque style, was built from 1852 to 1854 by the architect Durassié; its organ was installed on 29 November 1899 by Auguste Commaille.
The 19th century made it a place of leisure residence: the Bordeaux middle classes built fine houses there, while a working-class quarter took shape alongside. The Castel d'Andorte, raised in 1785 in the middle of the estate that became the parc de la Chêneraie, housed from 1845 to 1968 a private psychiatric clinic founded by doctor Joseph-Guillaume Desmaisons-Dupallans; it was listed as a historic monument in 2009. The racecourse was laid out over some fifty hectares after the transfer of the one at Gradignan, authorised by a decision of 23 April 1835. Population growth led the council to replace the old school on place Gambetta: the new neoclassical town hall was inaugurated in 1878 by the mayor François de Saint-Vidal.
The 20th century brought the major public facilities. The suburban hospital, founded in 1903 by doctor Édouard Delaye for destitute children, was recognised as being in the public interest in 1923. A bullring seating 10 500 opened in 1921; closed in 1961 after a fatal accident and maintenance problems, it was demolished in 1970 and replaced by a residential block, a sculpture by Shelomo Selinger marking where it stood. The municipality was liberated on 25 August 1944, before Bordeaux, by the free corps of Paul Hochard. A founding member of the Bordeaux urban community in 1968, it became the seat of a canton in 1973. Tram line D has served it since 14 December 2019.
Le Bouscat has 25 081 inhabitants over 5,28 square kilometres, one of the highest densities in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. According to INSEE, the French statistics institute, the municipality counted 13 466 homes in 2023, of which 90,3 % are main residences and 2,4 % second homes: people live here all year round, with no holiday vocation despite the origins of the municipality. The stock is balanced, with 56,5 % apartments and 43,3 % houses, a share of detached housing that is rare so close to the centre of Bordeaux. Still according to INSEE, 54,4 % of households are owner-occupiers and 43,9 % tenants, and 17,4 % of main residences belong to social housing. Buyers are above all families from the wider urban area looking for a house or a large apartment on the immediate edge of Bordeaux.
The average price recorded in Le Bouscat is 3 804 €/m², and the house segment comes out at 5 307 €/m². These values are calculated on sales registered in the DVF database, which records transactions actually completed before notaries. The average brings together apartments in recent blocks and old échoppes alike. Your property may depart from it depending on the period it was built, its condition, the size of its garden and its distance from the tram.
The municipality is organised around several centres of gravity. Place Gambetta and the town hall form the historic shopping centre. The surroundings of the racecourse and of the parc de la Chêneraie offer a more residential and leafy fabric. The route du Médoc and the avenue de la Libération concentrate the renewed building stock along the tram. To the south, the municipality directly adjoins the Bordeaux quarter of Caudéran, annexed to Bordeaux on 22 February 1965. Internal differences come above all from the age of the buildings and from the presence of a garden.
Tram line D has served the municipality since 14 December 2019, along the route du Médoc and the avenue de l'Hippodrome, and was then extended to Eysines Cantinolle on 29 February 2020. A park and ride with 250 spaces sits on the avenue de l'Hippodrome. The station of Le Bouscat-Sainte-Germaine provides a connection with the regional TER network. Place Ravezies, on the south-eastern edge, brings together several tram and bus routes, and the ring road is reached through junction 7.
The two segments carry comparable weight. According to INSEE, 43,3 % of homes are houses and 56,5 % apartments, a balance that is unusual a few kilometres from the centre of Bordeaux. The supply of houses rests largely on échoppes, the low stone dwellings typical of the Bordeaux area, and on the leisure residences of the 19th century. Two of the latter, the villas Maria-Luisa and Jeanne, have been listed as historic monuments since 2001.
The municipality comes under the inter-municipal local planning scheme of Bordeaux Métropole. Its territory was 100 % built up in 2018, with 87 % of urbanised areas and 13 % of managed green space: there is no farmland or natural land left to build on, and new schemes go through densification or the rebuilding of plots that are already built up. The surroundings of listed monuments, among them the Castel d'Andorte listed in 2009, require the opinion of the architect of the Bâtiments de France.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).