The average price per m² in Libourne is 2 282 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,8 to 2,6 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 1 % over 5 years and fell 3,0 % over the last 12 months, with about 132 transactions per year.
Illustration of Libourne, a river-port bastide, a medieval planned town, at the confluence of the Isle and the Dordogne.
Apartments in Libourne sell at an average price of around 2 282 €/m², based on transactions actually recorded (DVF data, the database that records sales actually registered before notaries). Prices run from around 1 996 €/m² at La Plante to 2 625 €/m² at La Lamberte, a gap of 31 %, which makes for a tight market. Houses, at 2 507 €/m², trade 10 % above apartments, the usual direction, in a housing stock that is 53 % detached. With 132 apartment sales a year, volumes are solid for a municipality of 25 000 inhabitants.
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 2 259 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Libourne reaches 2 282 €/m² in 2026, roughly +1 % over the period.
Change in the average price per m² over twelve months, district by district, based on the most recent DVF sales.
The average price per m² for an apartment in each district of Libourne covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Libourne market is stable, and that is its main feature. The average apartment price went from 2 259 €/m² in 2021 to 2 282 in 2026, that is 1 % over the period, after a high point at 2 349 in 2022 and a fall of 3 % over the last twelve months. With 132 apartment sales a year and 264 transactions retained for 2024 and 2025, the volume makes these figures solid. This stability is explained by demography: the municipality gains 0,1 % of its population a year between 2017 and 2023. Demand is not pushing, supply is not short.
Two underlying movements nonetheless cross this plateau. The first is a rebalancing between the centre and the outskirts: La Bastide loses 10 % over five years and Montaudon 16 %, while Condat gains 15 % and Les Dagueys 6 %. The old building stock of the centre, often in need of renovation and subject to energy performance requirements, sells less well than it did five years ago, while the outlying areas with newer stock hold up better. The second is the low dispersion: 31 % separate La Lamberte from La Plante, where a comparable municipality sits closer to 50 %. In Libourne, the condition of the property counts for more than its address, and that is the first piece of advice we give a seller.
Libourne compared with the major French cities, on the average price per m² of an apartment.
Libourne was born of a political decision and a point of geography. The bastide, a medieval planned town, was founded between 1268 and 1270 by Roger de Leybourne, seneschal of Gascony in the service of Edward I of England, who left it his name. The site is the confluence of the Isle and the Dordogne, within reach of the tide and therefore of navigation: the town was designed from the outset as the outlet for the wines of the Dordogne valley towards England. The wine trade prospered from the end of the thirteenth century and reached its peak between 1305 and 1336.
The plan of the bastide has stayed legible. The regular grid still holds between the quai de l'Isle, the allées Robert-Boulin and the cours des Girondins, and it is organised around the place Abel-Surchamp and its arcaded walkways, whose oldest buildings go back to the sixteenth century. The town hall occupies a building commissioned at the start of the fifteenth century by the mayor and the jurats, completed in 1427 after an earthquake had started a fire and damaged the roof on 2 February of that same year. Listed as a historic monument in 1908, it was given two towers in the first half of the eighteenth century, then a neo-Gothic restoration at the start of the twentieth. At the other end of the centre, the tour du Grand Port, or Grand Portail de la Mer, built between 1324 and 1330, is the last remnant of the medieval fortifications.
The town lived off the river as long as the river carried trade, then off the railway from 1852, when the Paris-Orléans company opened the station and its passenger building. Wine remained, but it changed role: Libourne no longer exports, it administers and markets the vineyards that surround it, Saint-Émilion to the east, Pomerol to the north, Fronsac to the west. The quai du Priourat and the quai des Salinières, where the wine trading houses once stood in a row, still carry the built trace of it.
Today's Libourne rests on three functions that do not depend on Bordeaux. It is a sub-prefecture town of the Gironde. It carries the Robert-Boulin hospital, 1 202 beds, lead site of the Hôpitaux du Nord-Gironde alongside Blaye and Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, and the largest employer in the area. It is finally the seat of the communauté d'agglomération du Libournais, the grouping of local authorities. INSEE, the French national statistics institute, measures the consequence of all this through an employment concentration index of 201,2: the town has two jobs for every working resident. That is what sets Libourne apart from the municipalities of the Bordeaux ring, and what explains why its property market follows its own logic.
Libourne is bought for three distinct reasons, and that is what makes its market varied. The first is local employment: with two jobs for every working resident, the town draws households who come to work there, often in healthcare, public administration or the wine trade, and who buy close to their post. The second is the station, which puts Bordeaux-Saint-Jean around 25 minutes away by TER regional train and allows commuting to the metropolitan area without paying its prices. The third is the heritage of the bastide, which attracts buyers drawn to old building stock and to the arcades of the place Abel-Surchamp. Three points to know before buying. The first is that the market is flat: 1 % over five years, down 3 % over twelve months. You do not buy here for an automatic capital gain. The second is that the gap between districts is small, 31 %, which means the property counts for more than the address. The third is that the municipal poverty rate, 22,6 %, and unemployment as measured by the census, 15,7 %, are above the departmental averages: the rental market is active, but tenant solvency is a parameter to look at for an investment.
The average price in Libourne is 2 282 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 833 to 2 615 €/m² depending on the district. Listing portals show asking prices, 10 to 20 % above the prices actually recorded at signing.
La Lamberte, to the east on the route de Saint-Émilion, at 2 625 €/m², which is 15 % above the municipal average. The area carries the Robert-Boulin hospital and a newer housing stock than the rest of the town, with recent developments and the Orée des Vignes estate. It is also the district where the urban fabric gives way to the vineyards. It records only eight apartment sales a year, so its average is sensitive.
On price, the gap is clear: 2 282 €/m² in Libourne against 4 309 in Bordeaux, which is 47 % less. On journey time, the station puts Bordeaux-Saint-Jean around 25 minutes away by TER, on a regular timetable. The real difference lies elsewhere: Libourne is not a dormitory town of the metropolitan area, it has its own employment area, with two jobs for every working resident. So you are not only buying a cheaper address, you are entering a different market.
The average apartment price went from 2 259 €/m² in 2021 to 2 282 in 2026, that is 1 % over five years, and it is down 3 % over the last twelve months. Two causes combine. The population is stable, with annual growth of 0,1 % between 2017 and 2023, so demand is not pushing. And the housing stock is largely old, in a town where median incomes stay moderate. The market is liquid, with 132 sales a year, but it is not under strain.
A house costs 2 507 €/m² against 2 282 for an apartment, that is 10 % more, which is the usual ratio. The municipal housing stock is 53,4 % detached, so the supply of houses is real, in particular in the southern and eastern areas. Watch the calculation convention: the price per square metre of a house covers the built floor area while the price paid includes the land, which makes a direct comparison misleading in districts with large plots.
The Épinette-Verdet-Carré area, in the east of the municipality, records only four single-lot apartment sales over five years. Its fabric is almost entirely low-rise detached housing and market gardening, extended by the vineyards: there is no apartment market to describe. We do not publish an apartment price where there is no market. The area is covered here, in the history of the town, without a price.
Start with the period of construction, which is the leading factor here: between the fabric of the bastide, the nineteenth-century faubourgs, the apartment blocks of the 1960s and the new-build in the east of the municipality, the gaps are wider than those between districts. Then look at the walking distance to the place Abel-Surchamp and to the station. The district itself counts for less than elsewhere: only 31 % separate the most expensive from the most affordable. The Immover valuation tool draws on the sales actually recorded closest to your address.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).