The average price per m² in Ploemeur is 4 423 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 55 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Ploemeur, a coastal town of the Morbihan next to Lorient.
An apartment sells on average for 4 423 €/m² in Ploemeur. The calculation is based on sales actually completed before notaries and published in DVF data, the French notarised sales database: 57 apartment sales in 2025, a pace of around 55 a year. This flat market remains narrow in a municipality where houses dominate by a wide margin, with 310 sales recorded in 2024 and 2025. Apartments are found mainly in recent residential developments in the town centre and in buildings close to the coast, two products that explain a high average price. Houses, larger and more often older, sell for slightly less per square metre.
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 Ploemeur market benefits from its position between city and ocean. The Lorient conurbation offers an employment area built on defence, with the Lann-Bihoué base and shipbuilding, on the fishing port and on services. Ploemeur captures part of the households who work there and want to live near the coast. On top of this comes demand for second homes and from retirees, which supports prices on the coast, while supply remains limited by the Loi Littoral and by the space taken up by natural areas, the airport and the kaolin quarries.
This scarcity of land explains why well-located properties sell quickly, while older inland houses in need of renovation take longer. The energy performance certificate weighs heavily on these older houses, whose insulation and heating system determine their rating. For a seller, the location relative to the sea, exposure to aircraft noise and the energy condition of the home are the three criteria to document before putting the property on the market.
For an apartment, Ploemeur sits well above Lorient and Lanester, but remains below Larmor-Plage, its neighbour on the coast.
The territory of Ploemeur has been occupied for a very long time: the municipality preserves several menhirs and Neolithic monuments. According to tradition, Saint Ninnoc founded a monastery there in the fifth century, at the origins of the parish. For centuries, Ploemeur remained a large rural coastal parish, which then extended as far as the edges of the roadstead where Lorient would be founded in the seventeenth century.
The coastline was fortified in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the Fort-Bloqué and the fort du Talud, tasked with watching the approaches to the roadstead. In the nineteenth century, sardine fishing supported the small harbours. At Lomener, sardines were pressed and packed into barrels, then processed in the canneries: a curved jetty of 70 metres was begun in 1868 and a breakwater of 190 metres was completed in 1926. The last factory of the harbour closed around 1935, and the villages of Kerroc'h, Le Courégant and Fort-Bloqué still bear the trace of this activity.
The twentieth century brought two activities that still shape the municipality. In 1904, kaolin extraction began; the Ploemeur deposit is today the largest in France, worked by Imerys, whose licence was renewed by a prefectoral order of 14 December 2023. Aviation arrived next: the Lann-Bihoué naval air base and Lorient-Bretagne Sud airport partly occupy the municipal territory. Post-war urban growth then linked the town centre to the neighbourhoods of Lorient, while leaving wide natural areas along the coast.
Ploemeur has 18 872 inhabitants and plays a dual role within the Lorient conurbation: a residential municipality for working people employed in the central city, and a coastal municipality chosen for its quality of life. The housing stock is dominated by detached houses, whether suburban homes in the town centre, restored longhouses in the inland villages or seaside houses. Buyers are families from the Lorient area, working people linked to the naval air base or to the shipbuilding industry of the roadstead, as well as retirees settling near the coast. Some coastal properties also attract buyers from outside Brittany looking for a second home.
At an average of 4 423 €/m² for an apartment in 2025, Ploemeur clearly exceeds Lorient, even though Lorient is the central city. The explanation lies in the make-up of the market: few older apartments, and a majority of recent residential developments or homes close to the sea. With around fifty sales a year, every new-build programme or every sale with an ocean view weighs on the average. Your property may therefore differ noticeably from it depending on its location and year of construction.
Per square metre, yes, slightly, which is unusual. Houses nevertheless remain the core of the market, with 310 sales in 2024 and 2025, more than five times the volume of apartments. Houses in the town centre and the inland villages, often older and larger, pull the unit price down. Conversely, a seafront house in Lomener or Le Courégant trades at an entirely different level.
The town centre of Ploemeur, adjoining Lorient, concentrates shops, services and most of the apartment buildings. The coastal villages, Lomener, Kerroc'h, Le Courégant and Fort-Bloqué, line up fishermen's cottages, villas and small harbours along around 17 kilometres of coastline. In between, the interior of the municipality retains more rural hamlets. Distance from the sea remains the leading factor behind price differences between these sectors.
Ploemeur is a coastal municipality subject to the Loi Littoral, the French coastal planning law, which strictly limits new construction within the hundred-metre strip and regulates urban development outside already built-up areas. An extension or a plot division may therefore be refused even on a good-sized plot. Before buying to build, check the zoning of the local urban plan (PLU) with the town hall or Lorient Agglomération.
The Lorient conurbation bus network links Ploemeur to the centre of Lorient and its railway station, served by TGV high-speed trains to Paris. The N165 expressway can be reached via the neighbouring municipality of Quéven. Lorient-Bretagne Sud airport lies partly within the municipal territory, which also means aircraft noise in some sectors close to the Lann-Bihoué base: a point to check before any purchase.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).