The average price per m² in Meylan is 3 523 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 4 657 €/m². About 162 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Meylan, on the Chartreuse hillsides east of Grenoble, in Isère.
The average price recorded in Meylan stands at 3 523 €/m². This average covers a largely multi-unit housing stock: according to INSEE, the French statistics institute, 76,4 % of dwellings are apartments, mostly built during the rapid urbanisation of the 1960s to 1980s, around the Buclos, Grand-Pré and Béalières neighbourhoods. Houses, rarer and often set on the hillsides, stand at a noticeably higher level: the average price recorded for houses and villas reaches 4 657 €/m². Aspect, the view over the massif and proximity to amenities widen the gaps from one area to another. The figures come from DVF data, the French notarised sales database, which lists the transactions actually registered with notaries.
House : 4 657 €/m²
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 on a twofold locational advantage: the immediate proximity of Grenoble and the presence of Inovallée, which concentrates nearly 12 000 skilled jobs a few minutes from homes. This sustained demand, driven by managers and families, keeps prices above those of the central city and of the neighbouring municipalities on the plain, while the population is stabilising at around 18 770 inhabitants. With only 3,3 % second homes, most transactions involve main residences, which makes the market steadier and less speculative than in the mountain municipalities of the department.
New supply remains constrained. The municipality is already largely built up and available land on the hillsides is scarce, which shifts activity towards the resale and renovation of buildings from the 1960s to 1980s, whose energy performance is becoming a negotiating point. The few houses of Haut-Meylan are contested when they offer an open view over the Chartreuse or the Vercors. Conversely, the large apartments of Les Buclos and Le Grand-Pré form the core of the family market, with values that depend on the floor level, renovation and quietness.
A residential municipality set against the Chartreuse and an immediate neighbour of Grenoble, Meylan stands above the municipalities of the Grenoble urban area shown here, including the central city. The gap comes from its hillside position and the weight of skilled employment at Inovallée.
The name comes from the Latinised Gaulish Mediolanum, found in the old forms Meyolanum in the 11th century and de Mediolano around 1101, and which denotes the centre of a territory. Meylan was long a rural village of the Grésivaudan, on the right bank of the Isère, with an economy geared to cereals, vines and hemp. The ruins of the château Corbeau, a fortified house built in the 13th century, recall this feudal past. The road linking Grenoble to Chambéry ran along the hillsides of Corenc and Meylan, where housing was spread across scattered hamlets at the foot of the Chartreuse.
The face of the municipality changed in the 20th century with the expansion of the Grenoble urban area. Meylan had 1 717 inhabitants in 1954, it reached 3 113 in 1962, 12 122 in 1975, then stabilised at around 18 741 in 1999. In one generation, the population grew sixfold. This growth came with the construction of entire neighbourhoods, from the post-war housing estates of Les Buclos and Le Grand-Pré to the experimental neighbourhood of La Béalières in the 1980s, designed around walking and cycling routes and everyday local life.
Meylan also owes its profile to innovation. The ZIRST, a zone for innovation and scientific and technical achievements, was launched in the early 1970s on the model of American technology parks. Along with Sophia Antipolis, it ranks among the very first French technology parks. Renamed Inovallée in 2005, it extends as far as Montbonnot-Saint-Martin and is still run by an association of business leaders, a unique case in France. It now brings together some 375 companies and nearly 12 000 jobs, mainly in software and technology, which has settled a population of managers and engineers in the municipality.
According to INSEE, Meylan has 18 770 inhabitants for 9 916 dwellings, of which 8 993 are main residences, or 90,7 % of the stock: second homes account for only 3,3 %, the sign of a main-residence market rather than a holiday one. Apartments make up 76,4 % of dwellings and houses 22,6 %. Among households in main residences, 59,6 % are owners and 38,5 % tenants, with social housing accounting for 13,3 %. Two buyer profiles meet here: managers and engineers employed at Inovallée or in the urban area, looking for a family apartment close to work, and established families aiming for a house on the hillsides, rarer and more contested.
The average price recorded is 3 523 €/m², calculated from transactions registered with notaries and published in the DVF database. It is a municipal average, mixing the apartment in the large 1970s neighbourhoods and the hillside house. The average price recorded for houses and villas reaches 4 657 €/m². Location, aspect, the view over the Chartreuse and the year of construction explain most of the gaps. A reliable valuation is based on comparable sales, not on the average.
The municipality rises in tiers from the Isère plain, to the south-east, up to the Chartreuse hillsides, to the north-west, over a significant range of altitude. Haut-Meylan, on the heights, brings together houses and villas with views, often sought after. The Buclos and Grand-Pré neighbourhoods concentrate multi-unit housing and everyday services. La Béalières, laid out in the 1980s around pedestrian paths, forms a separate area. These types of housing do not sell at the same level.
Meylan borders Grenoble directly to the east and connects with the centre via the ring road and the main routes of the urban area, only a few kilometres away. The municipality is served by bus lines of the metropolitan network, including high-frequency lines, but is not directly linked to the tramway. The car remains very present for commuting, particularly towards Inovallée and the rest of the Grésivaudan, which gives value to parking spaces and garages.
Supply is unbalanced. According to INSEE, houses account for only 22,6 % of dwellings against 76,4 % apartments. They are concentrated on the Haut-Meylan hillsides and in areas of detached houses, with very variable floor areas, plots and views. Sales references are fewer and the price gap per square metre with apartments is clear, which makes the valuation of a house depend more on its condition, its plot and its aspect than on the municipal average.
Meylan is part of Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, the metropolitan authority, and falls under its inter-municipal local urban plan, which governs building rights, extensions and density by area. Plots located on the Chartreuse hillsides may be exposed to landslide risks, to be checked before any project. In practical terms, the energy performance certificate (diagnostic de performance énergétique) weighs more and more in negotiations, particularly for apartments in buildings constructed between 1960 and 1980.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).