The average price per m² in Maurecourt is 3 384 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 13 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Maurecourt, in the loop of the Oise before its confluence with the Seine, in the north of the Yvelines.
The average price recorded in Maurecourt stands at 3 384 €/m². That average covers an overwhelmingly suburban stock: according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, residents live mostly in detached houses, on plots of the Oise valley or of the slope rising towards the forest of l'Hautil. Nearly half of the housing stock was built between 1946 and 1990, and seven households in ten own their main residence. The few apartments, the older village houses and the suburban houses of the recent estates do not sell at the same level. The figures come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries. The number of sales remains limited in a municipality of this size, which invites reading the average as an order of magnitude rather than a price to the individual property.
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 Maurecourt market depends first of all on residential demand across the outer Paris region rather than on a local driver of its own. The municipality is a place of residence for households who work in Paris, in Cergy-Pontoise or in the employment hubs of the Seine valley, which makes its market sensitive to credit conditions and to the mobility of Paris-region workers. The scarcity of available land, in a municipality already largely built up and constrained by the river and the plateau, limits the supply of new plots and concentrates transactions on the resale of existing suburban houses.
Two factors will weigh on the coming years. On one side, the quality of the setting, the rail service and the closeness of Cergy-Pontoise keep up steady demand from families in search of a house. On the other, the older stock, nearly half of it built before 1990, puts energy renovation at the heart of negotiations, and the low number of sales each year heightens the sensitivity of average prices to the nature of the properties traded. On a market this narrow, a case-by-case valuation remains essential to place a specific property against the municipal average.
A small residential municipality of the Oise valley, Maurecourt sits at a level close to its direct neighbours. The most telling comparison is with Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and Andrésy, which border the municipality, and with Jouy-le-Moutier, on the other side of the river towards Cergy-Pontoise.
Maurecourt holds a singular position, in one of the last loops of the Oise before its confluence with the Seine, in the north of the Yvelines. The municipality covers around 365 hectares, hemmed in between the river to the east and a farming plateau sheltered by the forest of l'Hautil to the west. Long a waterside village turned towards market gardening and orchards, Maurecourt had barely more than 300 inhabitants at the beginning of the 20th century. That valley setting, with its banks, its barges and its gardens running down to the water, drew the painters of the end of the 19th century. Berthe Morisot, close to Daubigny and a figure of Impressionism, stayed there and painted some fifteen canvases, and the municipality now maintains a trail that follows her viewpoints.
The shape of the municipality changed with the growth of the Paris suburbs. From the 1950s and 1960s, suburban estates spread over the slope and the plain, and the population grew strongly from one census to the next, to reach around 4 454 inhabitants today. Maurecourt nevertheless remains a residential municipality on a contained scale, without any post-war housing estate, between Conflans-Sainte-Honorine to the south and Andrésy to the west. The Maurecourt station, on Line J of the Transilien towards Paris-Saint-Lazare, stands at the edge of the municipality, on the territory of Andrésy, and places the area less than some thirty kilometres from the capital. That rail service, combined with road access to the Cergy-Pontoise conurbation, partly explains the settling of working households employed in the Paris region.
According to INSEE, Maurecourt has around 4 454 inhabitants and 1 668 dwellings, of which 95,6 % are main residences and only 3,8 % vacant dwellings. The municipality is first of all a place of permanent residents: second homes there are marginal. The stock is dominated by the detached house, with 4,5 rooms on average, and 69,3 % of households own their home. Buyers are therefore mainly families looking for a house with a garden within reasonable distance of Paris and of Cergy-Pontoise, households already settled in the Oise valley who are changing home, and a few first-time buyers drawn by a preserved village setting. Demand bears more on the family house than on small blocks of flats, little represented in the municipality.
The average price recorded is 3 384 €/m², calculated from the transactions registered by notaries and published in the DVF database. It is a municipal average, which aggregates very different properties: a suburban house from the estates of the 1970s, an older village house near the church and a recent apartment do not belong to the same segment. The condition of the property, the size of the plot, closeness to the station and the outlook towards the Oise explain a good share of the gaps around that average.
The market is very largely one of houses. According to INSEE, residents live in the great majority in suburban houses, and the supply of apartments remains limited in the municipality. A buyer aiming for a flat will therefore find few points of comparison locally and will often have to look towards Conflans-Sainte-Honorine or Andrésy, better provided with blocks of flats. For a family house with a garden, on the other hand, Maurecourt offers a steadier choice, between the older buildings of the village centre and the suburban houses of the estates of the second half of the 20th century.
The municipality has the Maurecourt station, set at its edge on the territory of Andrésy, served by Line J of the Transilien from Paris-Saint-Lazare. The area lies less than some thirty kilometres from the capital, with a quick connection towards Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the rail junction of the valley. The road also links Maurecourt to the nearby Cergy-Pontoise conurbation. That double accessibility, train and car, supports demand from households who work in the Paris region while living in a village setting.
Maurecourt draws its character from its position in the loop of the Oise, before the confluence with the Seine, between the river and the forest of l'Hautil. The banks, the waterside landscapes and the Impressionist legacy, with the trail devoted to Berthe Morisot, give the municipality the identity of a preserved village rather than of a dense suburb. The absence of any post-war housing estate and the dominance of the suburban house reinforce that residential profile. This valley atmosphere is one of the arguments that weigh in buyers' decisions, beyond criteria of floor area alone.
As in any riverside municipality, exposure to flood risk should be checked for properties close to the Oise: the flood risk prevention plan and the zoning of the local planning scheme set out the sectors concerned and the building constraints. On a stock built in good part between 1946 and 1990, the energy performance certificate deserves particular attention, as thermal renovation is becoming a negotiating criterion. Finally, the service at the station and access to schools should be measured according to the exact location of the property in the municipality.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).