The average price per m² in Louviers is 1 829 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 62 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Louviers, a former cloth-making town in the Eure valley.
In 2025, apartments in Louviers sold on average for 1 829 €/m², according to the transactions registered by notaries in DVF data, the French notarised sales database. The calculation covers 58 apartment sales for the year, and the pace observed over 2024 and 2025 is around 62 sales a year: a real but modest flat market, where each sale weighs on the average. Apartments are found mainly in the old centre, between the branches of the Eure, and in the residential blocks built after the war in the rebuilt sectors or on the outskirts. Most transactions, however, concern houses, with 278 sales over 2024 and 2025.
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 Louviers market relies on the employment area of the Seine valley. Val-de-Reuil, its immediate neighbour, concentrates industrial and pharmaceutical sites, and the Rouen metropolis remains within reach by motorway. This position allows Louviers to attract households who cannot find housing in the metropolis for the same budget. Demand goes first to houses, which explains the weight of this segment in transactions.
In the flat segment, the limited volume of sales makes the average more sensitive to the make-up of the sample from one year to the next. Buyers look closely at the energy performance diagnosis, as part of the old housing stock and of the post-war buildings remains poorly insulated. The proximity of the Eure, a much appreciated setting, also means checking the flood zoning before any purchase. For a seller, presenting a renovated property with favourable diagnoses remains the best way to position it above the average.
Louviers sits well below Rouen, at a level close to Évreux, slightly above it, and well above Elbeuf.
Louviers developed on the banks of the Eure, a river that divides there into several branches and long supplied the water and energy needed for working wool. In the Middle Ages, cloth-making ensured its prosperity. The town was hit hard by the Hundred Years' War: it surrendered to the English on 23 June 1418, was retaken by La Hire, companion of Joan of Arc, then besieged again in 1431 and forced to surrender on 22 October. In 1441, Charles VII exempted its inhabitants from most royal taxes, hence the nickname Louviers le Franc.
Cloth-making found a second wind from 1681, when the royal administration set up a manufactory in Louviers, run for more than fifty years by François Le Camus. The fine cloths of the town remained renowned until the industrial era, and many spinning mills settled along the branches of the river. This past can still be read in the urban landscape: bridges, former industrial buildings, and the church of Notre-Dame, whose south portal was rebuilt in 1506 in the Flamboyant Gothic style. The cloître des Pénitents, crossed by a branch of the Eure, now houses a music school.
In June 1940, the town was badly hit by the bombing of the Battle of France, before being liberated on 25 August 1944. Pierre Mendès France, mayor from 1953 to 1958, pursued his local career there while he headed the government, as président du Conseil, in 1954 and 1955. The second half of the 20th century saw the closure of many factories, including the spinning mills and the Wonder and Polygram sites. Louviers remains the seat of the Seine-Eure urban community authority, which groups sixty municipalities around it and the neighbouring new town of Val-de-Reuil.
Louviers has 18 705 inhabitants and acts as the central town for the south of the Seine-Eure urban community authority, with its shops, facilities and administrative services. The housing stock combines old town houses in the centre, post-war reconstruction buildings, apartment blocks on the outskirts and suburban residential neighbourhoods on the hillsides. Buyers are largely households working in the Seine valley, in Val-de-Reuil, Rouen or Évreux, who find more affordable prices here than in the Rouen metropolis. First-time buyers and landlords also invest in the small apartments of the centre, close to the shops.
The average of apartment sales completed in 2025 stands at 1 829 €/m². For a two-room apartment of 45 m², that represents a budget of around 82 000 euros excluding notary fees, to be adjusted according to the condition of the dwelling. As the market rests on some sixty sales a year, the gap between a renovated apartment in the centre and a dwelling in need of work can be large.
Yes, per square metre, houses sell on average for around 2 132 €/m², a level above that of apartments. They also make up the great majority of transactions, with 278 sales over 2024 and 2025, more than double the apartment sales. Houses on the hillsides and in the residential neighbourhoods, often with a garden, pull this average upwards, while the old town houses of the centre sell for less depending on the work required.
Louviers station has been closed to passengers for a long time. Journeys to Paris-Saint-Lazare and Rouen are made from Val-de-Reuil station, linked to the centre of Louviers by a bus rapid transit line. By road, the A13 and A154 motorways pass close by and put both Rouen and Évreux around thirty minutes away.
Yes, part of the town is crossed by the branches of the Eure. A flood risk prevention plan (PPRI) covers Louviers and the neighbouring municipalities of the valley, for river overflows and rising groundwater. Before buying near the water, consult the risk disclosure statement attached to the preliminary sale agreement and the zoning of the plan, which may impose building rules or restrict certain works.
The old centre, around the church of Notre-Dame and along the branches of the Eure, attracts buyers who value heritage and life on foot. The suburban neighbourhoods on the heights are of more interest to families looking for a house with land. The apartment blocks on the outskirts offer the lowest entry prices, with a level of energy renovation that varies from one co-ownership building to another.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).