The average price per m² in Maisons-Alfort is 5 451 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 483 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Maisons-Alfort, on the south bank of the Marne.
The average price recorded in Maisons-Alfort stands at 5 451 €/m² for an apartment. That average covers a stock overwhelmingly made up of flats: investment blocks and art déco buildings of Alfort and Charentonneau, along the Marne, large condominiums of the 1960s and 1970s at les Juilliottes and le Vert-de-Maisons, and a tight suburban fabric in the north of the municipality. The distance to a station on Line 8 or to a station on the RER D explains a large share of the gaps recorded from one street to another. These values come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before 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.
After 5 890 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Maisons-Alfort reaches 5 451 €/m² in 2026, roughly -7 % over the period.
The first driver of the local market is accessibility. Maisons-Alfort combines three metro stations, two RER D stations and, in time, a station on Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express at le Vert de Maisons, whose opening is announced for the autumn of 2027 after several postponements. That combination places the municipality a few minutes from the Gare de Lyon while offering floor areas out of reach in Paris. Demand logically concentrates on family homes within less than ten minutes' walk of a station, and eases as you move away from one.
The second driver is the scarcity of land. The municipal territory, cut by nearly 40 % when Alfortville was created in 1885, is today built on almost all of its area: new output is limited to occasional schemes and to the adding of storeys. Local employment remains supported by lastingly established institutions, the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort and the head office of the national agency for food, environmental and occupational health safety, which feed steady rental demand. With 89,6 % main residences, the market is little exposed to the movements of the second-home segment.
Maisons-Alfort sits in the upper range of the Val-de-Marne market, noticeably above its immediate neighbours on the left bank of the Seine and the Marne. It remains behind the best valued inner-suburb municipalities to the east of Paris.
The lands of Maisons appear in written records in 988, when Hugues Capet gave them to the abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. The hamlet of Alfort broke away from them in the 14th century: its name comes from Hareford, in memory of Pierre d'Aigueblanche, a Savoyard prelate who became bishop of Hereford in England and who owned the estate. The château d'Alfort, built on the south bank of the Marne, then changed hands several times. In 1765, its estate was acquired to house the veterinary school founded by Claude Bourgelat, the second establishment of its kind in the world after that of Lyon. The École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort still occupies the same site and has lastingly fixed the identity of the municipality.
The 19th century gave the town its present shape. In the 1840s, the fort de Charenton was raised on municipal land, as part of the fortified ring around Paris. The Paris to Lyon railway line cuts the municipality to the west and drew, along the track, a working-class population whose interests diverged from those of the farming village. Unhappy with its representation, that section obtained its separation by the law of 1 April 1885: Alfortville became an independent municipality and Maisons-Alfort lost nearly 40 % of its territory. From 1880, building estates gradually replaced the cultivated land.
The 20th century completed the urbanisation. The former quarries and mushroom farms of the south of the municipality gave way, in the middle of the century, to blocks of flats which tipped the stock towards the apartment. In September 1944, a V2 rocket fell on the town and killed six people. The arrival of the metro then accompanied the densification: Line 8 reached Maisons-Alfort - Stade on 19 September 1970, Maisons-Alfort - Les Juilliottes on 27 April 1972, then Créteil-Préfecture on 10 September 1974. The municipality, which has the shape of a triangle bordered to the north by the Marne, today has 56 799 inhabitants and ranks sixth in the Val-de-Marne.
Maisons-Alfort is a main-residence market, held by settled households and by buyers coming from Paris or the neighbouring municipalities. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the municipality has 56 799 inhabitants and around 29 600 dwellings, of which 89,6 % are main residences and only 2,9 % second homes. The stock is clearly made up of flats: 84,3 % apartments against 14,6 % houses, a legacy of postwar densification. Again according to INSEE, 43 % of households own their home and 51,6 % are tenants. Dwellings have 3,1 rooms on average, which steers demand towards family two- and three-room flats.
The average price recorded for an apartment in Maisons-Alfort is 5 451 €/m². That amount is calculated from the DVF database, which records the sales actually registered before notaries, and not from listings. It is a municipal average: your property may depart from it noticeably depending on the district, the storey, the presence of a lift, the general condition and the distance to Line 8 or to the RER D.
The most sought-after sectors are Alfort and Charentonneau, to the north, next to the town centre and close to the Marne. Charentonneau concentrates the largest area of detached houses in the municipality and an art déco building stock. Towards the south, les Juilliottes, Berlioz and le Vert-de-Maisons were urbanised later, with a large share of postwar housing estates, and show more affordable values. The town centre, around the town hall and the market, remains the point of balance of the local market.
The municipality is served by three stations on Line 8 of the metro: École vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, Maisons-Alfort - Stade and Maisons-Alfort - Les Juilliottes. To these are added two RER D stations, Maisons-Alfort - Alfortville and Le Vert de Maisons, which reach the Gare de Lyon in a few minutes. Four Noctilien night lines complete the network after dark. That double service, metro and RER, is a leading criterion for buyers and weighs directly on prices street by street.
The Vert de Maisons station, on the boundary with Alfortville, will become a station on Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express. It will place more than 26 000 inhabitants within a kilometre of an orbital link towards Villejuif, Issy or Noisy, without passing through Paris. Entry into service has been postponed several times and is now announced for the autumn of 2027. That prospect is already largely factored in by buyers in the south of the municipality.
The municipality is bordered to the north by the Marne and part of its territory comes under the flood risk prevention plan for the Marne and the Seine in the Val-de-Marne, which frames building, extensions and the fitting out of basements. The south of the town was also worked as quarries and mushroom farms before being built on, which makes it worth checking for former cavities during a sale. These points appear in the statement of risks given to the buyer.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).