The average price per m² in Lormont is 2 436 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 138 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Lormont, on the right bank of the Garonne, in Gironde.
The average price recorded in Lormont stands at 2 436 €/m². This average covers a housing stock dominated by apartments: the municipality was built around post-war housing estates of the 1960-1970 years, at Génicart and at Carriet, complemented by more recent developments near the tramway stops and by detached housing clinging to the hillsides. Houses, fewer in number and concentrated in the old town centre and on the heights, trade at a higher level, which mainly reflects their scarcity and the value of sloping plots with a view. The figures come from DVF data, the French notarised sales database, which records the sales actually registered with notaries.
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 Lormont market draws on its right-bank position, in immediate contact with Bordeaux and well served by tramway line A and the pont d'Aquitaine. The municipality captures spillover demand from households looking for a more affordable home than in the centre of the metropolitan area, while staying a few minutes from Bordeaux. This affordability makes it an entry point for many first-time buyers and investors, with particular pressure on well-served apartments and on hillside houses with a view.
Supply is changing at the pace of urban renewal: the rebuilding of the Génicart shopping centre and the transformation of several neighbourhoods are adding new homes and gradually altering how certain areas are seen. As everywhere in the conurbation, energy performance has become a bargaining factor, in particular for homes in the estates concerned by refurbishment works. A direct neighbour of Cenon and part of the Parc des Coteaux alongside Bassens and Floirac, Lormont sits in the most affordable band of the Bordeaux right bank.
On the right bank of the Bordeaux metropolitan area, Lormont ranks among the most affordable municipalities: below its direct neighbour Cenon, well below Bordeaux, and under Bruges, another first-ring municipality.
Lormont owes its name to the laurels that once covered its hillsides, the "Mons Laureus", the mount of laurels. Set on the right bank of the Garonne, some six kilometres downstream from Bordeaux, the municipality stretches between the river and a limestone hillside of the Entre-deux-Mers formed more than thirty million years ago. This line of high ground, now protected within the Parc des Coteaux, offers open views over the Garonne and over the conurbation.
The site was first a defensive one. Its château belonged to the English crown at a time when Aquitaine answered to the kings of England, then to the archbishopric of Bordeaux, before becoming national property at the Revolution. Lormont was the stage for notable episodes, among them negotiations linked to the end of the Hundred Years' War. Along the Garonne, river trade, fishing, shipbuilding and the passage of travellers long made it one of the busiest suburbs of Bordeaux, valued for its shaded hillsides and the bustle of its guinguettes.
In the twentieth century, the municipality changed scale with post-war urbanisation and the building of the Génicart and Carriet estates, which took its population from a few thousand to several tens of thousands of inhabitants. Since then, Lormont has engaged in a long programme of urban renewal, marked by the demolition and rebuilding of its Génicart shopping centre and by the transformation of several neighbourhoods into mixed areas combining housing, shops and public facilities.
With 25 769 inhabitants, Lormont is a first-ring municipality of the Bordeaux metropolitan authority whose housing stock is overwhelmingly made up of apartments. Social housing holds an important place there, a legacy of the Génicart and Carriet estates, alongside more recent apartment blocks built near the tramway stops and scattered detached housing on the hillsides and in the old town centre. This make-up attracts varied profiles: first-time buyers and young households looking for an affordable apartment a few minutes from Bordeaux, families won over by a house on the heights, and investors sensitive to the service provided by tramway line A. The urban renewal under way is gradually changing the image of several areas and widening the supply of new-build homes.
The average stands at 2 436 €/m², calculated from the sales registered with notaries and published in DVF data, the French notarised sales database. It is a municipal benchmark, covering an apartment in a post-war estate as much as a hillside house or a new-build home near the tramway. The address, the floor level, the aspect, the view over the Garonne, the year of construction and the energy performance rating explain most of the gaps. A reliable valuation rests on comparable sales, not on the average alone.
The municipality reads as several distinct areas. The old town centre, on the bank of the Garonne, keeps an older fabric and a quayside setting. The hillsides, protected by the Parc des Coteaux, are home to detached housing with sought-after views. The Génicart and Carriet neighbourhoods, shaped by the post-war housing estates of the 1960-1970 years, are at the heart of the urban renewal programme. Around the tramway stops, more recent developments are drawing new neighbourhoods. These settings do not sell at the same level.
Tramway line A crosses the municipality and serves several stops, among them la Buttinière, a major interchange, Mairie de Lormont and Carriet, reaching the centre of Bordeaux without a car. By road, the pont d'Aquitaine and the ring road connect the right bank directly to the rest of the conurbation. This dual service, tramway and major roads, weighs in the residential appeal of Lormont.
Yes, but supply is more limited than for apartments. Houses are concentrated in the old town centre and on the hillsides, where sloping plots sometimes offer views over the Garonne and over Bordeaux. They trade at a higher level than apartments, depending on condition, plot, aspect and view. Sale references being fewer there, valuing a house calls for a case-by-case approach.
Several points deserve your attention. Part of the land close to the Garonne is exposed to flood risk, information to be checked in the planning documents and in the statement of risks before any purchase. Some areas fall under urban renewal operations that may frame building works and the evolution of the built fabric. Lastly, the hillsides are subject to landscape protection rules that are best known before a building or extension project.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).