The average price per m² in Plaisir is 3 135 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 192 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Plaisir, in the Yvelines.
In Plaisir, the average price of apartments stands at 3 135 €/m², according to DVF data, that is the transactions actually registered before notaries. That average covers a stock arising for the most part from a single building sequence: close to half of the dwellings date from 1971 to 1990, at the time of the urbanisation tied to the new town. It brings together the blocks of flats of the northern plateau, the Mare aux Saules and Gâtines developments, and the suburban sectors inherited from the former hamlets. The distance to the two stations, the condition of the blocks of flats and the type of property explain most of the gaps.
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.
Demography settled down after the shock of the 1960s and 1970s. The municipality has 31 811 inhabitants, up 1,25 % since 2017, and remains the seventh in the Yvelines by population. According to INSEE, the average household size has fallen from 2,59 people in 2012 to 2,42, and one third of households live alone. That loosening keeps a steady turnover: ageing owners release houses and large apartments bought when the schemes were delivered, which families take over. With around 192 transactions a year, the market provides price benchmarks in sufficient number.
The second driver lies in jobs and facilities. The retail hub of Plaisir is one of the largest in the west of the Paris region: the hypermarket and its shopping mall, opened in 1977 and extended in 1987 then in 2007, sit alongside the Mon Grand Plaisir centre, rebuilt in place of the former Sablons centre and reopened in 2020, completed by a cinema in 2021. The return of the municipality to the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines conurbation in 2016 tied it back to a dense employment area. Conversely, about half of the 18,68 km² of the territory remains farmland or woodland, which limits urban extensions.
Plaisir sits in the lower part of this group of Yvelines municipalities. Its price level remains below that of Poissy and of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, its closest neighbour, and well behind Versailles.
The name of the municipality comes from the Latin Placidio, recorded in the 7th century, which designates the estate of a certain Placidius, before passing through the form Pleassiacum and then ending up as Plaisir in the 17th century. The land entered the holdings of the abbey of Saint-Denis in 768, and the abbey set up a priory there. The church of Saint-Pierre was raised in the middle of the 13th century. The territory then came under the barony of Neauphle-le-Château, then under the royal domain: in 1537, the fief was given to Anne de Pisseleu. At the end of the 18th century, Plaisir had about a thousand inhabitants spread among seven hamlets, la Bretéchelle, la Boissière, le Buisson, la Chaîne, le Village, les Petits-Prés and les Gâtines.
The château keeps the trace of those centuries. Its central block was built around 1620 for Simon Le Tellier, physician and adviser to the king, and the two wings were added between 1700 and 1711 by the comte de Pontchartrain. The estate has been listed as a site since 1946. The municipality bought it on 14 December 1976 and installed there the media library as well as the music and dance conservatoire; a restoration campaign was launched in the autumn of 2024. The second turning point dates from 1862, with the arrival of the railway, coupled with the opening of a workhouse at the ferme des Petits-Prés, which later became a departmental asylum. In 1900, the population had just passed the thousand mark.
Urbanisation took place in some fifteen years. The Plaisir-Les Clayes development zone, created in 1966, provided for 7 500 dwellings, and the regional master plan of 1965, then the new town of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, sped up the movement: the population rose from 3 850 inhabitants in 1962 to 21 259 in 1975. The schemes followed one another, the Mare aux Saules, Gâtines and Bataille developments, social housing of the public office at the Valibout, blocks of flats in the centre. Plaisir left the new town in 1983, giving up the Clef-de-Saint-Pierre sector to escape a programme aiming at 80 000 inhabitants, before joining the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines conurbation on 1 January 2016.
According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, Plaisir has 31 811 inhabitants and 13 668 dwellings, of which 93,6 % are main residences and 1,3 % second or occasional homes. The stock brings together 64 % apartments and 35 % houses. Again according to INSEE, 55,4 % of households own their main residence and 43 % rent, with a notable share of social housing. The average household size is 2,42 people, against 2,59 in 2012, and 33,2 % of households live alone. Buyers are above all families from the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines employment area and from the west of the Paris region, along with households already settled who move from an apartment to a house without leaving the municipality.
The average price of apartments stands at 3 135 €/m², calculated on DVF transactions actually completed before notaries, for a volume of the order of 192 sales a year. It is a municipal average: it blends blocks of flats of the 1970s, more recent developments and buildings close to the centre. A specific property may therefore sit clearly above or below that benchmark, depending on the sector, the storey and the condition of the home.
The municipality reads as several groupings. The old village, around the church of Saint-Pierre and the château park, along with the suburban sectors inherited from the hamlets such as la Bretéchelle or la Boissière, generally sit above the municipal average. The large blocks of flats delivered between 1970 and 1990 form the lower part of it. The Valibout, made up of 98 % social housing belonging to a single landlord, weighs almost nothing on the resale market.
Plaisir has two stations on its territory, Plaisir-Grignon, opened on 15 June 1864, and Plaisir-Les Clayes. Both come under Line N of the Transilien towards Paris-Montparnasse, reached in about 25 minutes by the semi-fast trains. The route nationale 12, built to motorway standards, crosses the municipality, and the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines bus network completes the links. Walking distance to one of the two stations remains a sensitive price criterion in the residential sectors.
Yes. According to INSEE, houses account for 35 % of the municipality's dwellings, against 64 % apartments. They are above all suburban houses and town houses delivered with the schemes of the 1970s and 1980s, around the former hamlets and in the south of the territory. That segment turns over slowly, owner-occupiers being in the majority: 55,4 % of households own their main residence. Searches there are therefore longer than on the apartment, whose supply is more plentiful.
The Valibout is classed as a priority district of urban policy and is the subject of an urban renewal programme led by Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, costed at 285 million euros over about ten years, of which 8,9 million comes from the ANRU. The district brings together 1 107 dwellings, around 8 % of the municipal stock, and 12,6 % of the population. The demolitions, rebuilding and public space works planned will gradually change the surroundings of the neighbouring homes, an element to factor into a valuation.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).