The average price per m² in Le Cannet-des-Maures is 2 146 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 4 504 €/m². About 13 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Le Cannet-des-Maures, between the hilltop village and the plaine des Maures.
In Le Cannet-des-Maures, the reference price stands at 2 146 €/m² for an apartment, while houses come out at 4 504 €/m². The very wide gap reflects the structure of the municipality: an old hilltop village and a plain town that grew after 1862, where blocks of flats are few and often modest, set against a market of villas with land that captures Provençal demand. These values come from DVF data, the transactions actually registered with notaries. Each property still has to be assessed on its floor area, its plot and its position.
House : 4 504 €/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.
Population growth of more than 19 per cent since 2017 is the striking fact of the market. It reflects demand spilling over from the Var coast, where prices have put houses with land out of reach of many households, towards a hinterland reachable by motorway. The presence of the army light aviation school also sustains a steady flow of arrivals and departures, which supports both the rental market and transactions with short holding periods.
The limiting factor is land. Between the nature reserve of the plaine des Maures, the farming zones and the fire and flood constraints, the area that can actually be built on is small. That scarcity explains how house prices are holding up despite a more hesitant national market. Conversely, the apartment segment, narrow and made up of often older properties, remains sensitive to energy performance: dwellings with a poor rating trade clearly below the municipal average.
The municipality sits in the middle of its area: its prices exceed those of Flayosc, stay close to those of Draguignan and remain below those of Vidauban, its immediate neighbour.
The site has been occupied since antiquity. The Romans established the Forum Voconii there, a market set at the crossroads of the routes linking Fréjus, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon and Riez, in the plain crossed by the Argens. In the Middle Ages settlement gathered on the heights around the Castrum de Caneto, a defensive position that gave rise to Le Vieux Cannet, a village perched at 127 metres whose outline still dominates the plain. That move upwards, then the gradual return downwards, is the key to reading the municipality's urban form: two distinct cores, a few kilometres apart.
The arrival of the railway in 1862 fixed the second pole. The modern village grew in the plain, near the track and the road, while Le Vieux Cannet kept its older buildings and its role as a lookout. The municipality long remained agricultural, turned towards the vine and the crops of the plaine des Maures. The establishment of the Meilland rose nursery, a breeding house known beyond the region, and the working of the land in the plain gradually diversified an economy that had depended on harvests alone.
In 1963 the army light aviation school moved in, training helicopter pilots and since then a major employer in the area. The municipality had 5 140 inhabitants in 2023, up by more than 19 per cent since 2017, one of the strongest rises in the central Var. The territory also holds the nature reserve of the plaine des Maures and the lake of Les Escarcets, protected areas that limit urban expansion and shape the geography of the local property market.
According to INSEE, the French national statistics office, the municipality has 5 140 inhabitants, with 93,3 per cent main residences and only 3,5 per cent second homes: unlike the neighbouring Var coast, the market remains one of permanent residents. Houses account for 77,2 per cent of the stock, apartments 22,0 per cent, and 63,2 per cent of main residences are occupied by their owners. Buyers are families from the central Var, working people from Draguignan and Le Luc, staff attached to the training base, and households coming from the coast in search of land at a price out of reach in the gulf of Saint-Tropez.
The reference price stands at 2 146 €/m² for an apartment and 4 504 €/m² for a house. These figures come from DVF data, the sales actually signed before notaries. The gap between the two markets is far wider here than the Var average, which makes valuing a property inseparable from its type, its plot and its position within the municipality.
The stock of flats in Le Cannet-des-Maures is small and concentrated in the plain town, often in older buildings or modest schemes. The villa market, for its part, involves plots that are sometimes large, in a setting protected by the nature reserve of the plaine des Maures. The scarcity of buildable land and Provençal demand explain the gap between the two segments.
Le Vieux Cannet, perched at 127 metres, offers older stone buildings, open views and a heritage setting, at the cost of narrow access, little parking and often heavy renovation work. The plain village, which grew around the railway from 1862, concentrates the shops, the schools and the services, with more recent buildings and more regular plots.
The municipality is crossed by the central Var motorway, which puts Draguignan some twenty kilometres away and the coast about thirty. The railway line that founded the plain village serves the nearby Le Luc area. That crossroads position, inherited from the Roman route, remains one of the arguments of the local market, for working people as much as for buyers coming from the coast.
A large part of the territory is covered by the national nature reserve of the plaine des Maures, which prohibits or strictly frames any construction. Forest fire risk also imposes legal obligations to clear vegetation around dwellings, which are inspected and can be penalised. There is flood risk near the Argens. These points appear in the local planning scheme, to be consulted at the town hall before any project.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).