The average price per m² in Noisy-le-Sec is 3 690 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 187 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Noisy-le-Sec, between the marshalling yard and the rebuilt centre.
The average price recorded in Noisy-le-Sec stands at 3 690 €/m². That average covers a contrasting stock: according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, 81,7 % of dwellings are apartments and 17,3 % houses, a high suburban share for a municipality of the inner ring. It blends the reconstruction blocks built after 1945 around the station, the large estates of Le Londeau, the streets of suburban houses on the slopes and recent schemes set along the tramway. Closeness to the A3 motorway and to the railway land also weighs from one street to the next. These values come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries.
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 first driver of the local market is demand coming from Paris and from the municipalities of the inner ring, on a fully built-up territory that no longer offers free land. Supply therefore rests on the resale of a stock made up for the most part after 1945, completed by new operations in urban renewal. Volume remains narrow, of the order of 187 apartment sales a year, which makes annual averages sensitive to the mix of properties sold. The share of social housing, which accounts for 39,7 % of main residences according to INSEE, reduces the size of the open market accordingly.
The second driver has to do with transport. The extension of the T1 tramway towards Val-de-Fontenay, that is 7,7 kilometres and fifteen stops across Romainville, Montreuil, Rosny-sous-Bois and Fontenay-sous-Bois, adds four stops within the municipality, with works that forced the closure of the existing section between Bobigny and the Noisy-le-Sec station during the summer of 2026. By 2031, the Pont de Bondy station of Line 15 Est of the Grand Paris Express, at the meeting point of Noisy-le-Sec, Bondy and Bobigny, will put Saint-Denis Pleyel ten minutes away. Those dates support demand, but their effects on prices cannot yet be read in the registered sales.
Noisy-le-Sec sits in the lower middle of the range for the municipalities of the east of Paris, clearly behind Montreuil and slightly below Rosny-sous-Bois, but above Aulnay-sous-Bois.
The place is recorded in 832 in the form Nucitum, from the Latin nucetum, the walnut grove; the qualifier le Sec refers to the dryness of the soil and to the absence of any watercourse. In 842, the emperor Lothaire granted property there to the monks of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, and the abbey of Saint-Denis held manorial rights over it from 1265. The village lived on farming and on the vine until the middle of the 19th century. Everything changed in July 1849 with the opening of a station on the line from Paris to Strasbourg. In 1882, the site became a leading marshalling yard, completed by new workshops and a new passenger building put up between 1908 and 1910. The municipality had 8 105 inhabitants at the census of 1896 and the railway employed 2 300 people there in 1914.
That railway role made the town a target. On the night of 18 to 19 April 1944, Allied aircraft went for the marshalling yard and its ammunition depot: close to 3 000 bombs fell in twenty-five minutes. The toll came to 464 dead, 370 seriously injured and 2 846 people left homeless. The town was more than 70 % destroyed, with around 500 houses flattened, 2 500 badly damaged and almost all public buildings hit. A V2 rocket still crashed on the municipality on 4 October 1944. Noisy-le-Sec was declared a disaster-stricken town on 5 August 1944 and received the Croix de guerre on 11 November 1948. That episode explains why a large share of the present-day built fabric dates from after the war and not from the 19th century.
Reconstruction was carried out block by block, under the authority of the ministry created in November 1944: the urban plan was taken into consideration in December 1945, then approved in 1948. On 6,5 hectares at Le Merlan, the state opened in September 1945 an experimental site, completed in 1953, where some fifty prototype houses from seven countries were put up, among them Sweden, Finland, Canada and the United States, shown to the public in July 1946; the estate has been listed as a historic monument since 28 December 2000. Near the station, block 18 received three blocks of flats between 1947 and 1952, and 662 social housing units were delivered at La Pierre-Feuillère in 1958. The Le Londeau district, backing onto the A3 motorway, has 1 481 dwellings for around 5 920 inhabitants.
Noisy-le-Sec has 45 510 inhabitants. According to INSEE, the municipality counts 19 543 dwellings, of which 81,7 % are apartments and 17,3 % houses, a suburban share above that of most of the municipalities bordering Paris. Main residences account for 93,5 % of the stock, second and occasional homes for 0,9 %, and vacant dwellings for 5,6 %: the market is almost entirely residential, with no pied-à-terre. Among main residences, 34,8 % of households are owners and 63,9 % tenants, social housing weighing 39,7 % of those residences. Buyers are mainly working households and first-time buyers coming from Paris and the neighbouring municipalities, along with local tenants who buy where they already live.
The average price per square metre in Noisy-le-Sec stands at 3 690 €/m², across all apartment types. That figure is calculated from the DVF database, which records the sales actually registered before notaries, and not from listings. It is a municipal average: a studio in a Le Londeau block and a family apartment in a recent scheme near the station depart markedly from it. An online valuation makes it possible to place your property more precisely.
The town centre, largely rebuilt after 1944, is arranged around the station and the place Jeanne-d'Arc. Le Merlan, with its experimental estate listed as a historic monument, and the suburban streets of the slopes towards Beauclair and La Boissière offer detached housing that is rare in the inner ring. Le Londeau and Béthisy, to the east, concentrate social housing and urban renewal operations. Le Petit Noisy, to the north, attaches to the surroundings of the canal de l'Ourcq.
The station is served by the RER E, brought into service in 1999, which reaches the gare Haussmann Saint-Lazare without a change. The T1 tramway has had its terminus there since 15 December 2003, the date of its 2,9 kilometre extension from Bobigny Pablo Picasso. Since 13 June 2024, Line 11 of the metro has served the Coteaux Beauclair station, on the edge of Romainville, and links Châtelet in around twenty minutes. The A3 motorway runs along the east of the municipality.
Both markets really exist, which is not the case everywhere around Paris. According to INSEE, 17,3 % of dwellings are houses, against 81,7 % apartments. Those suburban houses are concentrated on the slopes and around Le Merlan, where the experimental estate imposes particular rules tied to its heritage protection. They change hands less often and sell above the municipal average. The apartment remains the reference market by volume.
Three points come up. Noise first, at addresses close to the A3 motorway and to the railway land of the marshalling yard, which come under a noise classification imposing insulation requirements. Then the perimeters of the urban renewal of Le Londeau and Béthisy, whose timetable is worth knowing before selling. Lastly, a property located in the experimental estate of Le Merlan, listed as a historic monument since 28 December 2000, is subject to specific rules on works.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).