The average price per m² in Mont-Saxonnex is 2 801 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 4 490 €/m². About 21 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Mont-Saxonnex, on its plateau facing the Bargy.
In Mont-Saxonnex, the average price stands at 2 801 €/m² for apartments, while houses and chalets trade closer to 4 490 €/m². That marked gap comes from the nature of the housing stock: a village of chalets and mountain farmhouses, where individual homes dominate the small stock of flats. The apartment average covers varied situations depending on altitude, exposure to the sun on the plateau and proximity to the village centre or the ski area. These figures come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered with notaries, not asking prices.
House : 4 490 €/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 Mont-Saxonnex market rests on two complementary drivers. On one side, residential pressure from the Arve valley, where Cluses, Bonneville and Sallanches concentrate industrial employment, pushes households to look for a greener setting on the heights. On the other, the village's appeal as a family holiday destination sustains demand for chalets and leisure apartments. The scarcity of building land on the plateau and the constraints specific to the mountains limit new supply, which lastingly supports values, in particular for well-oriented properties.
The position of Mont-Saxonnex, more affordable than the well-known resorts nearby, is an argument for buyers. The price gap with destinations such as Le Grand-Bornand or La Clusaz remains very wide, which attracts buyers looking for a mountain base on a contained budget. In return, the modest size of the ski area and its dependence on snow cover make the leisure segment sensitive to climatic uncertainty. For a seller, the view, the orientation and the condition of the property weigh more on the final price than the municipal average.
Mont-Saxonnex sits above the most accessible industrial towns of the Arve valley, at a level close to the neighbouring administrative centres, but a long way from the renowned resorts of the massif. Its neighbours illustrate that gap.
Mont-Saxonnex occupies a sunny balcony at around a thousand metres of altitude, above the Arve valley and facing the Bargy range, which culminates at 2 438 metres. The origin of its name is still debated: one tradition links it to the Latin mons saxorum, the mountain of rocks, which a legend connects to a medieval fire lasting seven years that blackened the stone; another sees in it the memory of a Gallo-Roman landowner. The village settled on this farming plateau, away from the valley floor, which long shaped its isolation and the clustered form of its hamlets.
For a long time the inhabitants combined mountain farming with watchmaking work carried out at home. In the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War, the workshops of Mont-Saxonnex made pinions, arbors and other components supplied to the Geneva watch houses, an activity characteristic of this part of the Haute-Savoie. The built heritage keeps the trace of that past: the church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, erected at the start of the nineteenth century, stands on a rocky spur overlooking the valley, while the chapel of Pincru, dated 1664, holds a listed seventeenth-century altarpiece.
Tourist development followed that of the resorts in the valley. Mont-Saxonnex laid out a small winter sports area with around ten alpine runs and cross-country trails, complemented in summer by walking around the lac Bénit, a glacial lake set at 1 450 metres. This vocation as a family holiday village, more discreet than that of the large neighbouring resorts, gave rise to a stock of second homes and leisure chalets. The village nonetheless keeps a permanent population and farming activity, which sets its market apart from that of high-altitude resorts turned entirely towards tourism.
Mont-Saxonnex has 1 622 inhabitants according to INSEE, France's national statistics institute. The housing stock reflects its nature as a mountain village: second or occasional homes account for around four dwellings in ten, while main residences, a little over half the stock, are mostly occupied by their owners. Individual housing, chalets and renovated farmhouses, very clearly dominates the small stock of flats. Buyers mix households from the Cluses and Bonneville area looking for a quieter setting with mountain enthusiasts after a weekend chalet. That dual demand, residential and leisure, shapes a small but active market.
The average price of an apartment in Mont-Saxonnex is 2 801 €/m², based on DVF data drawn from notarised sales. Houses and chalets, more sought after in this high-altitude village, trade closer to 4 490 €/m². These averages vary according to the orientation of the plateau, the altitude of the property and its proximity to the village centre or the ski area. A renovated chalet with a view and an older apartment do not reach the same levels.
In a mountain village like Mont-Saxonnex, the chalet or detached house is the most sought-after property, both by local families and by holiday buyers. The supply of apartments is more limited and concentrated near the facilities. That relative scarcity of individual housing, combined with the value of the land and the view, explains the marked price gap between the two segments, wider here than in lowland municipalities.
The village lies around eight kilometres from Cluses and from Bonneville alike, but the mountain road climbing to the plateau lengthens the journey. The two Arve valley towns, served by the motorway and the railway, give access to Geneva and Annecy. This balcony position, close to services while remaining apart, is part of what buyers are looking for, but it means dealing with winter and with the climb.
No, not entirely. Around four dwellings in ten are second or occasional homes according to INSEE, a real share but a more measured one than in the large Savoyard resorts. The village keeps a permanent population and a year-round residential market. That balance makes supply a little less tight than in high-altitude resorts, while still supporting the prices of leisure chalets in the best-oriented sectors.
A buyer should budget for the taxe foncière, the local property tax whose rate is voted locally, and, for a dwelling that is not the main residence, the taxe d'habitation on second homes. Accommodation let to holidaymakers is also subject to a visitor tax. The amount depends on the rateable value of the property: it is worth checking with the town hall or the tax office before committing.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).