The average price per m² in Le Grand-Bornand is 6 165 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 9 951 €/m². About 100 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of the Alpine mountains.
The average price of apartments in Le Grand-Bornand stands at 6 165 €/m², based on the DVF transactions actually registered with notaries (DVF is the French record of notarised property sales). Chalets and houses trade at an entirely different level, 9 951 €/m², that is 61 % more. The municipality counts 5 373 dwellings for 2 050 inhabitants: four dwellings in five are not occupied year-round.
House / chalet : 9 951 €/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 5 575 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Le Grand-Bornand reaches 6 165 €/m² in 2026, roughly +11 % over the period.
The Grand-Bornand market rests on an accepted imbalance: 5 373 dwellings for 951 main residences. The permanent population is edging down, by 3,2 % between 2017 and 2023, without this weighing on values, since demand comes from elsewhere. What that decline does signal is the difficulty of housing local workers and seasonal staff, a question the loi Montagne now requires tourist municipalities to address through an agreement with the State.
New supply is bounded by the valley itself. The valley floor is narrow, part of the territory remains agricultural with sixty-five holdings, and torrent risk, whose brutality the 1987 flood showed, constrains what can be built beside the Borne. These limits will not move, which durably supports the level of values, all the more so as vacancy at 1,8 % leaves no available stock.
Set back in its surroundings, Le Grand-Bornand sits below Les Gets but above Annecy: the Aravis and Chablais resorts form a market apart from the valley towns.
The name of the village refers to the Borne torrent, from a Celtic root borna denoting a cavity, and to the suffix nand which denotes a valley or a torrent. The parish entered the dowry of a countess married into the Savoyard nobility in 1218; in 1341, the local lords exercised jurisdiction there. The church burned down in 1569. In 1796, a grain hall was built: it collapsed under the snow in 1813 and was only replaced in 1870 by the present grenette.
Skiing arrived in 1907, the first ski club was founded in 1923, and the first ski lift was installed at Le Chinaillon in 1952. The municipality has since been organised around two distinct centres: the main village, in the valley at 952 metres, and the Chinaillon resort, higher up. The ski area has 90 kilometres of alpine pistes and 74 kilometres of cross-country trails, and belongs to the Aravis group.
On 14 July 1987, a flash flood of the Borne swept away a campsite and killed twenty-three people. It is the gravest event in the recent history of the municipality, and it still shapes how torrent risk is read in the valley. Le Grand-Bornand has also built lasting sporting renown: a biathlon World Cup round since 2013, Tour de France stage finishes in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2018 and 2024.
The market is almost entirely a holiday market: 4 325 second homes out of 5 373 dwellings, a vacancy rate of 1,8 %, and 23 411 tourist beds for 2 050 permanent residents. Buyers weigh up the Aravis resorts and look either for an apartment close to the lifts or for a chalet, a rare and clearly dearer product. The municipality also keeps a strong farming identity, with sixty-five holdings and a production of farmhouse reblochon, which limits the spread of development onto the mountain pastures.
The average price of apartments is 6 165 €/m² and that of chalets and houses 9 951 €/m², based on the DVF transactions actually registered with notaries. The gap of 61 % between the two reflects two distinct markets.
Because the resort apartment is a product of use and rental yield, often small in floor area, while the chalet is a rare property with land. In a narrow valley where new development must continue the existing built fabric under the loi Montagne (France's mountain-planning law), and where farming occupies a large share of the land, the land available for a new chalet is very limited.
No. The municipality has developed a summer season built on hiking and cycling, with six Tour de France stage finishes since 2004, and winter renown that goes beyond alpine skiing thanks to the biathlon World Cup. This twofold season is a criterion buyers look at more and more in mid-mountain resorts.
No. The main village, at 952 metres, is lived in year-round, with shops and services. Le Chinaillon, higher up, is a resort area at the foot of the slopes. The difference in use translates into different expectations and different values, which the average price of 6 165 €/m² does not capture.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).