The average price per m² in Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans is 1 102 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 1 520 €/m². About 13 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans, in the Doubs valley south of Montbéliard.
In Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans, the benchmark price stands at 1 102 €/m² for an apartment, while houses come out at 1 520 €/m². This level places the municipality among the most affordable markets in northern Franche-Comté, in an area where supply still exceeds demand. These values come from DVF data, the French notarised sales database, meaning transactions actually registered with notaries, not estimates based on listings. They give an order of magnitude: the marked gap between apartments and houses points to a two-speed market, where the condition of the property and its energy performance weigh heavily in negotiations.
House : 1 520 €/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 Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans market follows that of the Montbéliard area, whose population has been declining for several decades. This situation sustains plentiful supply against limited demand, and keeps prices among the lowest in the region. Transaction volume remains modest, around a dozen apartment sales a year, which makes the average sensitive to the characteristics of the properties sold in any given year.
In the longer term, the price trajectory will depend on the health of the Montbéliard industrial base and on the area's ability to retain its working population, particularly in the face of the appeal of cross-border jobs further south. Energy performance will be decisive: in a market where entry prices are low, the cost of renovation work represents a considerable share of the total budget, and the gap is widening between renovated properties and the rest.
Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans sits at the lower end of its area: its prices are close to those of Valentigney and remain below Audincourt and Montbéliard, the two urban centres of the valley.
Pont-de-Roide grew up at a crossing point on the Doubs, where the river cuts through the edge of the first Jura plateau between limestone cliffs. This passage made the fortune of the small town: a toll, a market, then, from the 19th century onwards, industry. The water power of the Doubs drove forges and rolling mills that gave the municipality its character of a small working-class town set into its valley, with housing lined up along the river and workshops on the valley floor.
The present municipality was created in 2016 by the merger of Pont-de-Roide and Vermondans, a neighbouring village on the right bank. This union gave the new municipality its compound name, without erasing the distinction between the dense, commercial town centre and a more rural area upstream. The territory remains shaped by metalworking, a long-standing tradition of the area, and by its position at the junction between the Montbéliard area and the Jura.
Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans is today a valley service town, with its shops, schools, secondary school and services, in a striking natural setting of cliffs, forests and footpaths overlooking the Doubs. The municipality lives in the orbit of the Montbéliard area, whose car factories form the main regional employment base, and the Swiss border is only around thirty kilometres away, which puts part of the local workforce within reach of cross-border jobs.
According to INSEE, the French statistics institute, Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans has around 3 912 inhabitants. The market is aimed first at local households from the Montbéliard area, first-time buyers or families, for whom the price level makes home ownership possible on a modest budget. Demand focuses almost exclusively on main residences, in a stock made up of valley houses, older workers' housing and a limited number of apartment buildings. Some buyers also target buy-to-let investment, made attractive by low entry prices, while poorly insulated older properties find buyers with more difficulty.
The benchmark price stands at 1 102 €/m² for an apartment and 1 520 €/m² for a house. These figures come from DVF data, the sales actually signed before notaries. They are averages: an older apartment needing renovation and a recent house with land differ markedly from these bases, depending on floor area, condition, aspect and location in the valley.
The gap comes from the make-up of the housing stock. The municipality's apartments are largely in older buildings on the valley floor, often in need of renovation, with low prices per square metre. Detached houses, more recent on average and often with a plot of land, attract most of the demand from families. In this type of market, the nature of the property matters more than its location.
The town centre, around the shops and services, concentrates the older buildings and apartments, with low entry prices. The residential areas set slightly above the valley, with better exposure and more open views, are more sought after for houses with land. The Vermondans area and the rural outskirts offer a quieter setting, popular with buyers looking for space.
Montbéliard is around fifteen kilometres away along the Doubs valley road, and the Sochaux industrial hub, the main employer in the area, can be reached in about twenty minutes. The Swiss border is around thirty kilometres away, which puts part of the Swiss Jura within reach of a daily commute, although the municipality is not a cross-border hub in the strict sense.
Its position on the valley floor exposes some areas to flood risk from the Doubs, governed by risk prevention plans, and the limestone slopes raise questions of ground stability and rockfall on a few plots. The older housing in the valley is often energy-intensive: the energy performance certificate is a central point of attention in this market, both for running costs and for resale value. Consulting the local urban development plan at the town hall before any project remains indispensable.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).