The average price per m² in Millau is 1 735 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,4 to 2,0 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 23 % over 5 years and rose 5,6 % over the last 12 months, with about 175 transactions per year.
Illustration of Millau, sub-prefecture town of the Aveyron department, at the confluence of the Tarn and the Dourbie.
Apartments in Millau sell at an average price of around 1 735 €/m², based on transactions actually recorded (DVF data, the French notarised sales database). Prices run from around 1 477 €/m² in Centre-ville to 2 107 €/m² in Le Crès, a gap of 43 %, but five districts sit between 1 722 and 1 831 €/m². Houses, at 2 468 €/m², sell for 42 % more than apartments. The market records 175 apartment sales a year.
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 1 414 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Millau reaches 1 735 €/m² in 2026, around +23 % over the period.
Change in the average price per m² over twelve months, district by district, based on the most recent DVF sales.
The average price per m² for an apartment in each district of Millau covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Millau market is rising over time. The average apartment price went from 1 414 €/m² in 2021 to 1 643 in 2022 and 1 735 in 2023, dipped slightly in 2024, to 1 684, then climbed back to 1 778 in 2025, a rise of 5,6 % over twelve months. The reference price for 2026, 1 735 €/m², smooths the sales of 2024 and 2025; it stands 23 % above that of 2021. With 175 apartment sales a year, the municipal trend is readable, but each district accounts for between ten and 42 sales.
All seven districts have risen over five years. Le Crès shows 43 %, on around ten sales a year, ahead of Gambetta, 31 %, and Centre-ville, 27 %. Jean-Jaurès, the town's largest market, is up 16 %. Over twelve months, Puits-de-Calès gains 11,5 %, on eighteen sales a year, Le Barry 7,2 % and Gambetta 6,9 %; Le Crès and Centre-ville are stable, and Le Cayrel edges down slightly, by 1,1 %, on ten sales a year. These annual movements need confirming. For a seller, this means the price is defended on the condition of the property more than on the address. For a buyer, it means the negotiating margin depends mainly on the work to be done and on the co-ownership.
Millau compared with the major French cities, on the average price per m² for an apartment.
Millau is a sub-prefecture town of the Aveyron department, set in a basin at the confluence of the Tarn and the Dourbie, between the causse Rouge, the Larzac and the causse Noir. The Gallic town was called Condatomagus, “the market at the confluence”. Around 15 AD, a production centre for terra sigillata pottery was established at La Graufesenque, on the left bank of the Tarn; the excavations carried out from 1901 to 1906 made it a reference site for the study of Gallo-Roman pottery. The town later moved to the right bank, where the present centre stands.
In the Middle Ages, a first viscount of Millau, Bernard, is recorded in 916. The church of Notre-Dame de l'Espinasse was consecrated in 1095 by Pope Urban II. In 1112, the marriage of Douce, heiress to the viscountcy, to Raimond-Bérenger III of Barcelona brought Millau into the orbit of Aragon. A charter of 1187 confirmed the rights of the town and its six consuls. Millau entered the kingdom of France through the treaty of Meaux in 1229 and was definitively attached to it in 1271.
The town joined the Reformation in 1560 and became a Protestant stronghold; from 1632, the consulate was shared between two Catholic and two Reformed consuls, and the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in 1685, hit the Calvinist community hard. Millau became a sub-prefecture town in 1800 and annexed the neighbouring municipality of Le Monna in 1830. The Pont-Vieux, destroyed in 1757, was replaced by a bridge designed by the engineer Le Rouge, completed in 1820.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Millau was the capital of leather and glove-making; the industry declined in the 1960s but survives, and the town received the Ville et Métiers d'Art label in 2000. The metal market hall dates from 1899. The Millau viaduct, a cable-stayed bridge 2 460 metres long that carries the A75 over the Tarn valley, west of the town, was inaugurated on 14 December 2004. Today, 52,8 % of the municipality's homes are apartments and 46,9 % houses; nearly six in ten homes date from 1946 to 1990.
Millau sells at 1 735 €/m² for an apartment, in a municipality of 22 044 inhabitants whose population has been stable since 2012. Owners account for 60,2 % of households and tenants for 38,0 %. The buyer profile is that of first-time buyers and families, workers from the local employment area, notably the hospital, retirees, and investors targeting rentals in the centre and the inner suburbs. Three points to know before buying. The first is the narrow spread of prices: five districts sit between 1 722 and 1 831 €/m², a gap of 6 %, and the condition of the property counts for more than the address. Two exceptions: Le Crès, 21 % above the average but on only ten sales a year, and Centre-ville, 15 % below, where the old buildings often need work. The second is the gap between houses and apartments: houses sell for 2 468 €/m², 42 % more than apartments. The third is the trend: the municipality gains 23 % over five years and 5,6 % over twelve months, but the annual changes at district level rest on small volumes.
The average price in Millau is 1 735 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 398 to 2 024 €/m² depending on the district. Property portals display asking prices, 10 to 20 % higher than the prices actually recorded.
Le Crès, on the north-western slopes, at 2 107 €/m², 21 % above the municipal average. This price rests on around ten apartment sales a year and should be read with caution. Next come Puits-de-Calès, at 1 831 €/m², and Le Cayrel, at 1 795 €/m².
At 1 477 €/m², it is 15 % below the municipal average. The old centre is made up of tightly packed buildings, often in need of renovation, and since 2024 it has been part of the “Centre ancien et Beauregard” priority urban neighbourhood. Its price has nevertheless risen by 27 % over five years, from 1 166 €/m² in 2021 to 1 477 in 2026.
Yes. The average apartment price rose from 1 414 €/m² in 2021 to 1 735 in 2026, around 23 %, and it is up 5,6 % over twelve months. All districts have risen over five years, from 16 % for Jean-Jaurès to 43 % for Le Crès, the latter figure resting on few sales.
Houses sell for 2 468 €/m², 42 % more than apartments at 1 735 €/m². Yet houses make up 46,9 % of the municipality's homes. Plot size, condition and energy performance account for the difference between two properties.
No, it crosses the Tarn valley west of the town, between the causse Rouge and the Larzac. This cable-stayed bridge, 2 460 metres long, which carries the A75 motorway, was inaugurated on 14 December 2004.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).