The average price per m² in Le Tréport is 2 692 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 51 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Le Tréport, at the foot of the cliffs, in the Seine-Maritime.
The average price of apartments in Le Tréport stands at 2 692 €/m², according to DVF transactions actually registered before notaries. A seaside resort of the Côte d'Albâtre, at the mouth of the Bresle, the town has a stock marked by post-war reconstruction on the seafront and by an older fabric in the lower town and the upper town. The high share of second homes turns demand towards small floor areas close to the beach and the port. The sea view, the storey, the aspect and the distance to the seafront make the value of a property vary.
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 Tréport market is that of a seaside resort of the Côte d'Albâtre, strongly marked by holiday use. The share of second homes, close to four dwellings in ten, makes demand sensitive to the tourist climate and to the choices of buyers from the Paris region and from nearby towns. These properties change hands more often than dwellings occupied year-round, which keeps up a regular turnover of sales. The resident population, for its part, is falling slightly, a movement common in small coastal towns where permanent housing gives ground to second homes.
Several factors shape this market. The setting of the cliffs, of the port and of the three sister towns, with Eu and Mers-les-Bains, keeps up a lasting tourist appeal and a demand for second homes. The port, active for fishing, trade and pleasure boating, along with services, provides most of the year-round jobs. Conversely, the distance from the large cities and an indirect rail service limit the main-residence clientele, while post-war reconstruction fixed a good part of the seafront fabric, hard to extend for lack of free land on a site constrained by the cliffs.
Le Tréport sits above Dieppe, the larger neighbouring port, but clearly below the most highly rated resorts of the coast such as Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, further north, and remains more affordable than Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, on the baie de Somme.
Le Tréport grew up around its Benedictine abbey of Saint-Michel, founded in the 11th century on the heights overlooking the Manche. The site, at the mouth of the Bresle, became an active fishing and trading port as early as the Middle Ages. The strategic position of the town led to its being burned by the English in 1339, at the beginning of the Hundred Years War. The town is historically split between a lower town, huddled around the port at the foot of the cliffs, and an upper town, on the plateau, a duality that still shapes its urban form.
In the 19th century, the fashion for sea bathing turned the port town into a seaside resort. The presence of the royal family at the nearby castle of Eu, under Louis-Philippe, made the place popular, and the opening of the station, on 12 May 1872, brought Parisians to the coast. Holiday villas rose along the seafront and on the heights. The funicular, inaugurated on 29 June 1908, solved the difficulty of the three hundred and sixty-five steps separating the lower town from the cliff and eased access to the plateau and to the neighbouring town of Mers-les-Bains.
The bombing of the Second World War destroyed a large part of the villas and of the seafront, rebuilt afterwards in the post-war style. Le Tréport was classified as a seaside resort in 1962. The original funicular, out of service after the conflict, was replaced by a cable car in 1960, then by inclined lifts from 2006. The town today forms, with Eu and Mers-les-Bains, a set of three sister towns straddling the boundary between Normandy and Picardy, around a port still active for fishing, trade and pleasure boating.
Le Tréport has 4 378 inhabitants. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the municipality counts around 4 347 dwellings, of which close to 53 % are main residences and around 37 % second homes: a very high share, characteristic of seaside resorts. Still according to INSEE, houses account for around 53 % of the stock and apartments for 46 %, and close to 43 % of households own their main residence, the majority being tenants. Buyers mix residents settled year-round, often tied to the port and to services, and second-home purchasers coming in particular from the Paris region and from the large Norman and Picard towns.
The average price of apartments in Le Tréport is 2 692 €/m², according to DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. That average covers gaps depending on the sea view, the storey, the distance to the seafront and to the beach, and the condition of the property. An apartment on the seafront and a dwelling in the upper town do not trade at the same level.
Le Tréport is split between a lower town, around the port and the seafront at the foot of the cliffs, and an upper town, on the plateau. The lower town concentrates the shops, the port and the blocks close to the beach, much sought after for the view and the activity. The upper town, linked by the inclined lifts, offers dwellings that are often more affordable and open views over the Manche and the Bresle valley.
Le Tréport has a large share of second homes, close to 37 % of the stock according to INSEE. Tourist municipalities of this kind may vote a surcharge on the residence tax for second homes, and letting furnished tourist rentals is regulated there. These rules change from one year to the next: their exact terms should be checked with the town hall before any purchase or letting project.
Le Tréport has a station, the terminus of a line serving the Bresle valley, with connections towards Abbeville, Amiens, Rouen and Paris. By car, the town is linked to Dieppe to the south and to Abbeville to the north by the coastal roads. Reaching Paris takes several hours, which explains a second-home clientele coming as much from the nearby Norman and Picard towns as from the capital.
The stock is almost balanced: according to INSEE, houses account for around 53 % of dwellings and apartments for 46 %. The reference price of 2 692 €/m² covers apartments, numerous in the blocks of the seafront and of the lower town. Houses, often in the upper town and in the streets set back, speak more to families settled year-round, while apartments attract second-home buyers.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).