The average price per m² in Le Plessis-Trévise is 3 561 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 4 723 €/m². About 159 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Le Plessis-Trévise, a suburban municipality of the plateau briard in the Val-de-Marne.
The average price recorded in Le Plessis-Trévise stands at 3 561 €/m². That average covers a stock split between two ways of living: according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, 69,19 % of dwellings are apartments, often built in the residential schemes of the 1960s to the 1980s, and 29,96 % are houses, the historic core of this former municipality of building estates. The detached house remains the benchmark property: the average price recorded on houses and villas comes out at 4 723 €/m². The gap owes to the scarcity of land for detached housing and to demand from families looking for a garden east of Paris. Floor area, condition, closeness to the gare de Villiers and aspect then open up the differences. The figures come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries.
House : 4 723 €/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 Plessis-Trévise market rests on steady residential demand, carried by families from the eastern Paris area who look for a house with a garden or a large apartment without reaching the price levels of the municipalities along the Marne. With 97,63 % main residences according to INSEE, most transactions involve buyers who come to live there, not to invest in a pied-à-terre: that gives a market of substance, less speculative and less volatile than in more touristic towns. The closeness of the RER E and the RER A, through the gare de Villiers and Noisy-le-Grand, anchors the municipality in the Paris employment area.
New supply remains limited by the very nature of the urban fabric, largely made up of detached houses and already built up. Available land is scarce and activity concentrates on the resale of existing houses and apartments, whose energy performance weighs ever more in negotiations. Demand for houses structurally exceeds supply, which keeps a clear gap between the price of houses and that of apartments. The quality of the setting, the green fabric and access to the bois Saint-Martin support the appeal of the municipality against neighbouring towns that are better served but denser.
A suburban municipality of the eastern Paris area, Le Plessis-Trévise sits at a level close to its immediate neighbours on the plateau, Villiers-sur-Marne and Champigny-sur-Marne, but remains clearly more affordable than the towns along the Marne such as Nogent-sur-Marne. The gap owes to rail links and to closeness to the river.
The territory long remained divided between two seigneurial estates, the Plessis-Saint-Antoine to the east and the Plessis-La-Lande to the west, where the château de La Lande stood. In 1776, Louis-François de Bourbon, prince de Conti, brought the two lands together and drew the base of the future municipality. The word plessis once referred to an enclosure of interwoven branches protecting an estate. The second part of the name came later: in 1812, marshal Édouard Mortier acquired the estate of La Lande and made it his residence. Napoléon had made him duke of Trévise in 1808, after the town in Vénétie, in reward for his campaigns. Mortier died in 1835 in Paris, during the Fieschi attack, alongside king Louis-Philippe.
After the marshal's death, the estate was bought in 1857 by Jean-Augustin Ardouin, who set about dividing it into building plots. The arrival of the railway drew Parisians in search of quiet and greenery: villas and shops rose around the park. The inhabitants came together in the Syndicat des propriétaires du parc du Plessis-Trévise and campaigned for some thirty years for municipal autonomy. They obtained it through the law of 7 July 1899, which detached the territory from La Queue-en-Brie and Villiers-sur-Marne. Le Plessis-Trévise is thus the youngest of the municipalities of the Val-de-Marne.
The 20th century turned the residential village into a suburban town. The population went from around 1 600 inhabitants in 1936 to 5 200 in 1962, then 13 000 in 1975, carried by successive estates of detached houses. In the 1950s, the cité de la Joie, launched at the initiative of abbé Pierre, marked that phase of building. The municipality, set on the plateau briard that overlooks the valley of the Marne, keeps a very green fabric: it shares with Noisy-le-Grand and Villiers-sur-Marne the bois Saint-Martin, long a private estate closed to the public and now a protected regional nature area.
According to INSEE, Le Plessis-Trévise has 21 112 inhabitants for a stock dominated by main residences: 97,63 % of dwellings are lived in year-round and only 0,69 % are second homes, the sign of a town of daily life and not of holidays. Apartments account for 69,19 % of the stock and houses 29,96 %. Among households in main residences, 52,98 % are owners and 45,88 % tenants, a balance typical of a suburban municipality of the eastern Paris area. Buyers are above all families and first-time buyers looking for a house with a garden or a large apartment, within reasonable distance of Paris, at a more contained price than in the municipalities along the Marne.
The average price recorded is 3 561 €/m², calculated from the transactions registered before notaries and published in the DVF database. It is a municipal average, which mixes the apartment in a residential block and the house on a building estate. The average price recorded on houses and villas reaches 4 723 €/m². Location, closeness to the gare de Villiers-sur-Marne, the size of the plot and the condition of the property explain most of the gaps. A reliable valuation is set on comparable sales, not on the average alone.
The house remains the emblematic property of the municipality, but it is in the minority in the stock: according to INSEE, houses account for only 29,96 % of dwellings against 69,19 % apartments. The town was built through successive estates of detached houses, which gives a dense but much sought-after form of individual housing. Sale references remain numerous compared with other municipalities, but competition among families means that properties with a garden go quickly, and their price per square metre clearly exceeds that of apartments.
The municipality has no station on its territory, but it is served by the gare de Villiers-sur-Marne - Le Plessis-Trévise, on its boundary, on the RER E, which reaches Paris in about twenty minutes. Bus lines 206 and 207 link the town centre to that station and to the one at Noisy-le-Grand - Mont d'Est on the RER A. The car remains common for local journeys, by way of the road that crosses the plateau briard. The distance to a transport stop weighs on the value of a property in the more remote districts.
Yes, the town is marked by a strong presence of greenery, inherited from its past of estates of villas with tree-lined gardens. It shares with Noisy-le-Grand and Villiers-sur-Marne the bois Saint-Martin, a wood long in private hands, today a protected nature area reachable from the RER E. Set on the plateau briard, it keeps an airy suburban fabric. That setting is one of the arguments that support demand from families and, mechanically, the price of houses.
As everywhere, selling a dwelling requires an up-to-date set of surveys (energy performance, asbestos, electricity, gas depending on the age of the property). In a municipality so given over to detached houses, local planning rules frame extensions, boundary walls and the division of plots: it is better to check the local planning scheme before any project to enlarge. Finally, the applicable taxation and any easements from the original building estate deserve examination beforehand, in particular for older houses that come from the first divisions of the park.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).