The average price per m² in Mantes-la-Jolie is 2 514 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 219 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Mantes-la-Jolie, on the banks of the Seine in the Yvelines.
The average price recorded in Mantes-la-Jolie stands at 2 514 €/m². That average covers a housing stock overwhelmingly made up of flats: according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, 81,2 % of dwellings are apartments and 16,7 % houses. It blends the buildings of the centre rebuilt after the bombing of 1944, the 6 000 dwellings of the Val Fourré built between 1963 and 1977, the recent schemes around the station and the suburban streets of Gassicourt and Les Martraits. Gaps from one sector to another are therefore wide. This figure comes 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.
The local market rests first of all on demography and on nearby employment. With 43 526 inhabitants over 9,4 square kilometres, Mantes-la-Jolie is the most populated town in the north-west of the Yvelines and the hub of the Grand Paris Seine et Oise urban community. The industrial area around it is going through a transition: car production stopped at Flins in 2024, after seventy-two years, in favour of a circular economy site whose ramp-up is announced by 2030. Social housing weighs heavily in the total stock, which mechanically limits the volume of properties traded each year.
The second driver is the improvement of rail services. The station reopened on 4 April 2023 after rebuilding, and the extension of the RER E is due to reach it, according to the municipal announcement, on 28 February 2027, with a journey time to La Défense brought back to around forty minutes. That prospect supports the new schemes around the station and the Mantes Université development operation, straddling the municipality and Mantes-la-Ville. In parallel, the urban renewal of the Val Fourré, under way until 2030, is reshaping a district that concentrates a large share of the flatted stock.
Set at the western edge of the Paris conurbation, Mantes-la-Jolie shows levels well below those of Cergy and Poissy, which stand at a comparable distance from Paris. The gap becomes much wider with Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Mantes was built on the Seine, at the meeting point between the Île-de-France and Normandy, which long made it a fortified border town. In 1087, William the Conqueror launched a campaign in the Vexin, took the town and set it on fire; he died a few weeks later from the consequences of that expedition. The town was rebuilt and Louis VI granted it a communal charter in 1110. The building of the collegiate church of Notre-Dame was decided around 1140, before that of Notre-Dame de Paris, and the upper parts rose in the 1170s. Listed as a historic monument in 1840, it was restored by the local architect Alphonse Durand from 1846 to 1873.
The railway came early: the station opened on 9 May 1843 on the Paris to Rouen line, before the line towards Caen and Cherbourg branched off from it in the 1850s. That rail junction settled the industrial vocation of the area. In 1930, Mantes merged with the neighbouring municipality of Gassicourt and multiplied its area by six, under the name Mantes-Gassicourt. The bombing of 1944, which targeted the bridges over the Seine, destroyed a large part of the centre. Reconstruction was entrusted to the architect Raymond Lopez under the mandate of mayor Jean-Paul David, in office from 1947 to 1977. The town took the name Mantes-la-Jolie in 1953.
The Renault plant at Flins, in the neighbouring municipality, turned out its first car on 30 January 1952 and was inaugurated on the following 2 October. It drew a large workforce and called for a housing programme on a wide scale. The decree creating the priority development zone of the Val Fourré was signed on 3 August 1959; the district rose from the ground from 1963 and counted around 6 000 dwellings on 110 hectares when it was completed, in 1977. After the unrest of 1991, thirteen tower blocks and nearly 2 000 dwellings were demolished between 1992 and 2006. These successive layers explain the town of today: a dense centre around the collegiate church, a street pattern rebuilt in the 1950s, a post-war housing estate to the west and suburban fringes inherited from Gassicourt.
According to INSEE, Mantes-la-Jolie has 43 526 inhabitants and 18 334 dwellings, of which 93,2 % are main residences and only 0,5 % second homes: it is a town lived in year-round, with no holiday market. Apartments make up 81,2 % of the stock. Again according to INSEE, 30,7 % of households are owners and 67,5 % tenants, a high share of tenants that owes to the weight of social housing. Buyers are mainly first-time buyers from the north-west of the Yvelines and the Val-d'Oise, families looking for a suburban house on a contained budget, and Paris-region households watching the announced arrival of the RER E.
The average price recorded in Mantes-la-Jolie is 2 514 €/m². It is an average calculated on the sales registered in the DVF database, which records the transactions actually completed before notaries. It aggregates very different properties, from a dwelling in a post-war housing estate to a suburban house in Gassicourt, and so departs from the price of a specific property. The condition, the storey, the co-ownership and the distance to the station weigh heavily on the real value.
The town is organised into three very distinct blocks. The historic centre, around the collegiate church of Notre-Dame and the banks of the Seine, blends older buildings with blocks from the reconstruction of the 1950s. To the west, the Val Fourré covers 110 hectares and gathers a large share of the municipal population. To the north-west, Gassicourt and Les Martraits, attached to Mantes in 1930, keep a suburban character. These sectors do not trade at the same level.
The station, already served by trains from Paris-Saint-Lazare and by the links towards Normandy, was entirely modernised and reopened on 4 April 2023 ahead of the extension of the RER E. The town announces commercial service as far as Mantes-la-Jolie on 28 February 2027. The project should bring the journey to La Défense back to around forty minutes, against about fifty today. That timetable has been put back several times and remains to be confirmed.
The market is dominated by flats: according to INSEE, 81,2 % of dwellings are apartments, against 16,7 % houses. The supply of suburban houses is therefore narrow and concentrated in Gassicourt, Les Martraits and a few streets of the centre, which lengthens searches and thins out points of comparison. Apartments cover a wide range, from the buildings of the reconstruction to the new schemes delivered near the station. Selling times differ markedly between these two segments.
The district already went through a first wave of demolitions between 1992 and 2006, with thirteen tower blocks and nearly 2 000 dwellings removed. A new urban renewal programme, contracted in 2022, carries the work on in the Aviateurs, Musiciens and Physiciens sectors, with refurbishments, new building and a reworking of public spaces. A first tower block, Clément-Ader, was demolished in January 2026. The operations are due to run until 2030.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).