The average price per m² in Les Gets is 6 971 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 11 457 €/m². About 90 transactions are recorded each year.
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The average price in Les Gets stands at 6 971 €/m², based on the DVF transactions actually registered with notaries (DVF is the French record of notarised property sales). The municipality counts 4 306 dwellings for only 604 resident households: the market here is not residential but touristic, which explains a price level out of proportion with the size of the village. Chalets and houses trade clearly higher than apartments.
House / chalet : 11 457 €/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 6 621 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Les Gets reaches 6 971 €/m² in 2026, roughly +5 % over the period.
The Les Gets market is understood from one figure: 4 306 dwellings for 604 resident households. Seven dwellings in eight are not occupied year-round. Prices are therefore formed on outside demand, choosing between resorts, and not on the financial capacity of the inhabitants. That makes the market sensitive to credit conditions and to the comparative appeal of the Portes du Soleil, but very little to the municipality's population, which is stable, even slightly declining.
Two factors frame future supply. The loi Montagne requires development to continue the existing built fabric and governs new tourist units. Since the law of 19 November 2024 on furnished tourist properties, municipalities can also mark out in their local planning document areas where new builds must be allocated to main residences, a lever designed for territories where residents struggle to find housing. These frameworks have no immediate effect on values, but they bound housing production in the medium term.
Set back in their surroundings, Les Gets sits above the towns of Haute-Savoie, Annecy included: the mountain resort market does not follow the same drivers as that of the valley towns.
The place is mentioned before 1128, on the occasion of a donation to the priory of Contamine-sur-Arve, then in 1275 in the form Giz. The name comes from the late Latin gistum, the pastoral dwelling, the shelter, and not from timber hauling as a widespread explanation would have it. The village grew at the col des Gets, at 1 172 metres, on the threshold separating the Aulps valley from that of the Giffre. This crossing position, between two Chablais valleys, long shaped its farming and forestry economy.
The shift towards winter tourism began in 1936 with the Boule ski tow, then accelerated after the war. The resort claims the first French chairlift, in 1947. The ski area was then organised around two slopes facing each other on either side of the village: Les Chavannes, linked to the Portes du Soleil group, and the Mont Chéry, which rises to 1 848 metres. Skiing built the present housing stock, largely made up of holiday homes.
Over the past twenty years, the municipality has built a second season on mountain biking: world championships in 2004 and again in 2022, Critérium du Dauphiné stages in 2014 and 2019, a Tour de France stage start in 2023. Les Gets also keeps an identity of its own with its museum of mechanical music and its Aeolian organ listed as a historic monument, along with the Moudon chapel, older than the year one thousand and rebuilt in 1651.
The Les Gets market is an investment and holiday market, not a local housing market. Second homes account for 85 % of dwellings and the vacancy rate falls to 0,7 %, which signals a stock fully in use. The municipality also offers 1 106 jobs for 1 227 inhabitants, which implies workers coming from the valleys: the difficulty of housing seasonal staff is a structural feature of this kind of resort. Buyers mainly look for an apartment close to the lifts or a chalet, a segment on which values are clearly higher.
The average price of apartments in Les Gets is 6 971 €/m², calculated on the DVF transactions actually registered with notaries. Houses and chalets sit at a far higher level, at around 11 457 €/m².
Because these are two different markets. The resort apartment is a product of use and rental yield, often small in floor area. The chalet is a rare property, with land, in a mountain municipality where new development is governed by the loi Montagne (France's mountain-planning law) and must continue the existing built fabric. This scarcity explains the gap of more than 60 % seen in sales.
The permanent population is not what sets prices here. The municipality counts 4 306 dwellings and around 18 800 tourist beds: demand comes from outside, partly international, drawn by the link to the Portes du Soleil area. It is this ratio between an abundant holiday stock and constrained mountain land that supports values.
Less than before. Les Gets has developed a summer season around mountain biking and hiking, with regular international events. This twofold season reduces dependence on snow cover, a criterion buyers look at more and more in mid-mountain resorts.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).