The average price per m² in Mont-Saint-Aignan is 2 248 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 3 420 €/m². About 194 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Mont-Saint-Aignan, on the heights above Rouen.
The average price recorded in Mont-Saint-Aignan stands at 2 248 €/m² for an apartment, and 3 420 €/m² for a house. This average covers a very mixed plateau housing stock: the apartment buildings around the university campus, often small units intended for student lettings, weigh heavily in the annual volume of sales, while the suburban areas of the Village, la Vatine and Saint-André form a markedly more expensive segment. These amounts come from DVF data, the French notarised sales database, which lists the transactions actually registered with notaries.
House : 3 420 €/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 main driver of the market remains higher education. With around 12 000 students on the campus of the university of Rouen, joined by NEOMA Business School and UniLaSalle, the municipality has one of the highest student-to-resident ratios in France for a population of 20 165 people. This rental demand supports the studio and two-room apartment segment, with transactions following the academic calendar. In return, it makes the small apartment market sensitive to changes in student numbers and to landlords' decisions, which explains part of the volume of sales recorded each year.
The second driver is the plateau location three kilometres from central Rouen. Line T1 of the TEOR, in service since 2002, puts the campus and the dense neighbourhoods about fifteen minutes from the heart of the conurbation, which establishes the municipality as a residential area for households working in Rouen. The office activities of the la Vatine business park and local facilities, including the espace Marc-Sangnier reopened in September 2019, work in the same direction. The suburban areas of the Village and Saint-André behave differently from the apartment stock near the campus.
Mont-Saint-Aignan sits below Rouen, its immediate neighbour, and slightly below Le Havre. The municipality remains well above Beauvais, which plays in a different price bracket.
The municipality was born from the union of two former parishes set on the plateau overlooking Rouen: Saint-Aignan and Le Mont-aux-Malades. The name of the first appears in the 12th century in the form Sanctum Anianum, in reference to Aignan, bishop of Orléans and patron of the parish. The second owes its name to the leper hospital founded around 1119 on the side of the hill, entrusted to canons regular and maintained by the parishes of Rouen. In 1176, Henri II Plantagenêt (Henry II of England) had a church built there dedicated to Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury murdered six years earlier, whom he had welcomed in Normandy.
The priory of Le Mont-aux-Malades came through the Revolution and its church became a parish church in 1790. In 1815, the municipality absorbed part of the territory of Saint-Denis-de-Bondeville, then in 1819 Saint-Aignan and Le Mont-aux-Malades merged and took the name Mont-Saint-Aignan. Throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, the territory remained rural and agricultural, with hamlets separated by fields and woods, away from the industrial city set below in the loop of the Seine. The church of Saint-Thomas-de-Cantorbéry was listed as a historic monument as early as 1926, and the ruins of the former church of Saint-Jacques in 1971.
The turning point came in the 1960s. The arts and science university colleges created from 1963 onwards settled on the plateau, and the university of Rouen was officially established in 1966. The campus, today the historic and administrative centre of the institution, covers nearly 166 000 m² and houses the faculties of arts and humanities, human and social sciences, sports sciences, a science and technology centre and the IUT de Rouen, the university institute of technology. Housing development followed the same pace, and within a generation the municipality went from a group of farming hamlets to a plateau town of 7,94 km², organised into four neighbourhoods: the Village, Le Mont-aux-Malades, Saint-André and la Vatine.
Mont-Saint-Aignan has 20 165 inhabitants, including around 12 000 students attending the campus. According to INSEE, the French statistics institute, the housing stock reaches 11 421 dwellings, of which 88,3 % are main residences, 5,2 % second or occasional homes and 6,5 % vacant dwellings. Apartments account for 67,1 % of dwellings and houses 29,4 %, a high share of houses for a municipality of this density. Owner-occupiers and tenants are almost evenly balanced, at 47,6 % and 49,8 % of households. The average household size, 1,88 people, remains low: it reflects the weight of student lettings and single-person households alongside the families settled in the areas of houses.
The average price of apartments in Mont-Saint-Aignan comes out at 2 248 €/m², and that of houses at 3 420 €/m². These figures are calculated from the transactions actually registered with notaries and published in DVF data, the French notarised sales database. They are municipal averages: the gap is wide between a buy-to-let studio near the campus and a house in the Village or la Vatine. Only a valuation that takes into account the address, floor area, floor level and condition can approach the value of your property.
The municipality is organised into four neighbourhoods. The Village, the former centre of Saint-Aignan, keeps its church of Sainte-Marie and low-rise buildings. Le Mont-aux-Malades, on the hillside running down towards Rouen, retains traces of the priory and its 12th-century church. Saint-André grew up around its late 19th-century church. La Vatine, to the north-east, combines recent housing with an office business park, away from the campus.
Line T1 of the TEOR, the high-service bus network opened in 2002, links the campus to central Rouen with a service every six minutes at peak times. It is the backbone of the municipality and directly serves the densest areas. Four regular bus lines complete the network towards the neighbouring municipalities on the plateau. The route down to Rouen runs along the hillside, over about three kilometres, which makes walking and cycling uneven depending on the direction.
Yes, directly. The campus of the university of Rouen welcomes around 12 000 students, joined by those of NEOMA Business School, a school founded in 1871 as the école supérieure de commerce de Rouen and renamed NEOMA after the merger with Reims Management School announced in April 2013. This population sustains continuous demand for studios and two-room apartments around the plateau, with marked seasonality between June and September.
The two markets genuinely coexist: according to INSEE, 67,1 % of dwellings are apartments and 29,4 % houses. Apartment buildings are concentrated around the campus and along the routes served by the TEOR, with many small units. Houses are mainly found in the Village, Saint-André and la Vatine, with longer search times. The price gap between the two segments exceeds 50 %, which makes the municipal average of little use on its own.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).