The average price per m² in Centre-ville (Rodez) is 2 108 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,7 to 2,6 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 10 % over 5 years and rose 13,3 % over the last 12 months, with about 46 transactions per year.
The Centre-ville of Rodez, on the outcrop, around the Notre-Dame cathedral.
Apartments in the Centre-ville district, in Rodez, sell at an average price of around 2 108 €/m², based on prices actually recorded (DVF transactions, notarised sales). Between 1 729 and 2 562 €/m² covers half of all sales, the gap depending on the period of construction, the condition of the property, heritage constraints and the floor. Five-year change: +10 %.
Prices from the DVF file (Demandes de valeurs foncières, published by the DGFiP), transactions actually recorded at the notary, aggregated at district level using the IRIS zoning of INSEE. Cross-referenced with the Notaires de France - INSEE indices. Learn more about our methodology.
After 1 921 €/m² in 2021, the average price in the Centre-ville district in Rodez reaches 2 108 €/m² in 2026, around +10 % over the period.
Town-centre retail in the pedestrian streets, the markets on the place de la Cité and the place du Bourg, catering and tourism.
Notre-Dame cathedral, musée Fenaille, municipal and prefecture services, local schools.
An outcrop at 630 metres, a protected medieval fabric, ring boulevards on the line of the ramparts, views over the Aveyron valley.
The old centre of Rodez, on the outcrop. Google Maps.
The centre of Rodez is the outcrop itself. A table of rock at 630 metres in a meander of the Aveyron, occupied since antiquity, where the town built upwards for want of room to spread. The ring boulevards, Estourmel, Flaugergues, Laromiguière, Belle-Isle, follow the line of the former ramparts and still trace the exact limit of the area today.
The Notre-Dame cathedral dominates the whole. Work began in 1277, after the collapse of the Romanesque building, and lasted close to three centuries. The local red sandstone gives it its colour, and its bell tower of eighty-seven metres, completed in the sixteenth century, remains the landmark of the whole town. The place de la Cité opens at its foot.
Around it, the fabric is medieval: rue de l'Embergue, rue de Bonald, rue du Touat, rue du Bourguet-Nau, rue Sainte-Catherine, place de la Madeleine. Narrow lanes, tall narrow buildings, inner courtyards. The musée Fenaille, housed in a Renaissance mansion, holds the collection of statue-menhirs that made the archaeological reputation of the Rouergue.
The district sits at 2 108 €/m², level with the town-wide average, and it is the second market in the town by volume, with forty-six sales a year. It gains 10 % over five years. Its movement over twelve months, 13,3 %, is the strongest in Rodez: at that volume it reflects a genuine shift in the market, but the amplitude also owes much to how varied the older building stock is.
The centre of Rodez is bought for the address and for the second home, rarely for standard comfort. Buyers are households who want to live on foot, second-home buyers drawn by the heritage, and investors who find a sought-after rental product here. At 2 108 €/m², the district sits exactly at the town-wide average, which often comes as a surprise: the historic centre is not the most expensive area in Rodez, Bourran is. Three practical points before buying. The surroundings of the cathedral are protected, and works to facades, joinery and roofing are regulated: check with the planning department before any project, in particular one that includes an energy refurbishment. Parking is difficult in the fabric of a walled town that was not designed for the car. Finally, the range, from 1 729 to 2 562 €/m², is wide: in older stock, the condition of the property and the floor explain most of the gap, far more than the street.
The average price in Centre-ville is 2 108 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 729 to 2 562 €/m² depending on the building, the floor and the condition.
No, and that is a feature of the town. At 2 108 €/m², the old centre sits exactly at the town-wide average, while Bourran, the western plateau of the hospital and the government offices, reaches 2 520 €/m². The heritage of the outcrop does not create here the premium seen in other towns, not least because the older building stock is very varied and often in need of refurbishment.
No. The surroundings of the Notre-Dame cathedral are protected and the medieval fabric is regulated: works to facades, joinery and roofing are subject to requirements. Check with the planning department before buying, in particular if your project includes external wall insulation or a change of joinery, since the usual solutions are not all permitted here.
The rise of 13,3 % over twelve months is the strongest of the eleven districts in the town. It rests on forty-six annual sales, a volume large enough not to be an artefact, but it also owes something to the make-up of the area: in a very varied older fabric, a year in which refurbished properties dominate transactions shifts the average. The underlying trend, 10 % over five years, is more reliable for reading the direction.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).