The average price per m² in Périgueux is 1 900 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,5 to 2,2 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 12 % over 5 years and rose 1,2 % over the last 12 months, with about 291 transactions per year.
Illustration of Périgueux, from the Saint-Front cathedral to the quays of the Isle.
Apartments in Périgueux sell at an average price of around 1 900 €/m², based on prices actually recorded (DVF data, the French notarised sales database). The county town of the Dordogne, it has a tightly packed market: prices run from around 1 604 €/m² in Le Bassin to 2 109 €/m² in the Georges Pompidou area, a gap of 31 %, where most towns of that size show twice as much. A house sells at around 1 961 €/m², barely 3 % above an apartment.
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 1 694 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Périgueux reaches 1 900 €/m² in 2026, roughly +12 % 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 Périgueux covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Périgueux market is that of a medium-sized county town with an active market. With an average price of around 1 900 €/m² for an apartment and 291 sales a year, Périgueux sits well below the neighbouring Gironde, while staying above most county towns in its category. The price is up 12 % over five years and 1,2 % over twelve months: an established rise that has flattened recently.
The striking fact is how tight the market is. The gap between the first and the last district reaches only 31 %, and eight districts out of eleven fall within a band of 234 €/m². The house-to-apartment gap, cut to 3 %, points the same way: this market is read first by the property, then by the address. Four published districts stay below sixteen apartment sales a year: Le Bassin, Les Barris, Le Toulon and Les Mondoux. Their annual movements are statistical noise rather than trends: on those pages, rely on the average of the last two years rather than on the latest one.
Périgueux compared with the major French cities, on the average price per m² of an apartment.
Périgueux was born twice. First as Vesunna, capital of the Petrocorii and later a Gallo-Roman city, whose Vesunna tower, amphitheatre and the Bouquets domus, now covered by the Vesunna museum, still mark the ground. Then as Puy-Saint-Front, a merchant town born around the abbey at the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, on the neighbouring hill.
The two towns lived side by side, as rivals, until their merger in 1240. What remains is a centre with two heads: the Cité to the south, around Vesunna and the Saint-Étienne church, and Puy-Saint-Front to the north, around the Saint-Front cathedral and its domes, listed as UNESCO World Heritage as part of the routes of Santiago de Compostela. The conservation area created in 1970 covers more than twenty hectares of that medieval and Renaissance fabric. The nineteenth century added a third layer: the railway in 1857, then the workshops of the Paris-Orléans company in 1862, which made Le Toulon a railway suburb.
The geography of prices follows that pattern, but very closely. The Georges Pompidou area and Les Barris, to the north-east, hold the top of the market at around 2 100 €/m². Beaulieu, the town centre, Vésone, Puy-Saint-Front and Saint-Georges are packed between 1 875 and 1 977. Le Toulon, Les Mondoux, Saint-Martin and Le Bassin close the ranking between 1 604 and 1 745. From first to last, the gap reaches only 31 %.
The Périgueux market is first of all a main-home market, carried by the public-sector jobs of the county administration, the hospital and the service base of the Grand Périgueux area. Added to that is spillover demand from the Gironde, a little over an hour from Bordeaux by road and by train, and buyers among retired people drawn by the size of the town and the cost of living. The trait that sets Périgueux apart is the house-to-apartment gap, cut to 3 % where it often exceeds 20 % elsewhere. In practice, the choice between a suburban house and a town-centre apartment turns on floor area and the condition of the property, more than on the price per m². Investors target the town centre and Puy-Saint-Front, which together hold more than a third of the sales in the town and where small units sell above the average.
The average price in Périgueux is 1 900 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 522 to 2 211 €/m² depending on the district. Property portals show asking prices, 10 to 20 % above the prices actually recorded.
Gaps do exist, but they are small for a town of that size: 31 % between the most expensive district and the most affordable. The Georges Pompidou area shows the highest average price, around 2 109 €/m², while Le Bassin sits at around 1 604 €/m². Eight districts out of eleven fall within a band of 1 875 to 2 109 €/m². In Périgueux, the condition and the floor area of a property often weigh more than the address.
The town brings together outstanding heritage, with the Saint-Front cathedral listed by UNESCO and a conservation area of more than twenty hectares, a county-town role that steadies employment, and prices far below those of the neighbouring Gironde. Bordeaux is a little over an hour away.
This is the particularity of the local market: a house sells at 1 961 €/m² against 1 900 for an apartment, a gap of only 3 %, where most towns show 20 % or more. The choice therefore turns on the floor area sought, the garden and the condition of the property, not on the price per m².
Over five years, the average price is up around 12 %. Over the last twelve months, the town gains 1,2 %, close to stability. The movement remains uneven from one district to another: Les Mondoux is up 17,9 % over a year while Puy-Saint-Front is down 12,7 %.
In this town, start from the price in your own area, then adjust for year of construction, condition, energy performance, floor level and the presence of a lift or a parking space. In the conservation area, the condition of the older building stock and its energy rating explain a good share of the gaps. The Immover valuation tool draws on the recorded sales closest to your address.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).