The average price per m² in Rungis is 3 953 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 56 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Rungis, in the Val-de-Marne, south of Paris.
The average price for apartments in Rungis stands at 3 953 €/m², based on the DVF transactions actually registered before notaries. The municipality is small and its land largely taken up by the national wholesale market and the business parks: housing is concentrated in the old village centre and a few residential sectors. The average therefore mixes detached houses, small blocks of flats and more recent dwellings. Closeness to Orly, to the main roads and the surrounding business activity weigh on the living environment and explain noticeable gaps from one residential district to another.
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 Rungis market is a small one, where few properties change hands each year. The limited supply of housing, in a municipality where a large part of the territory is given over to economic activity, keeps a certain scarcity alive. Demand comes from working people of the Paris region looking for quick access to Paris and to the Orly airport, in a residential setting quieter than the presence of the largest fresh produce market in the world, a few hundred metres away, might suggest.
Several dynamics shape the future. The national wholesale market and the business parks concentrate tens of thousands of jobs, which supports housing demand within a short radius. The Grand Paris transport projects and the strengthening of the links towards Orly are gradually improving the service of the area. Conversely, the land constraint and the nuisances linked to the activity and to the closeness of the airport limit residential development and clearly set the housing sectors apart from the areas turned towards the economy.
Rungis sits in the middle range of its sector of the Val-de-Marne, above neighbours such as Fresnes but clearly below the residential municipalities close by in the Hauts-de-Seine, of which Sceaux is a good example.
Rungis, in the Val-de-Marne, is an old village: occupation of the site goes back to Gallo-Roman times and the name appears as early as 1124 in a charter, in the form Rungi Villa. Long rural, the municipality lived from farming and from vines at the gates of Paris. Its history changed at the start of the 17th century with the Médicis aqueduct: wanted by Henri IV to supply Paris with drinking water, it saw Louis XIII lay the first stone in 1613. The works, lasting about ten years, employed hundreds of labourers in Rungis and upset the quiet of the village.
The village was long organised around its church and its country house, a former hunting lodge already shown on a map of 1632, in the middle of a vast wooded park. In the 20th century, the parcelling of a large part of that park, from 1928 onwards, deeply transformed the fabric of the municipality; the country house itself became the present town hall. Rungis then remained a municipality of modest size on the southern edge of Paris, whose fate was to be sealed by its strategic position between railway lines, future motorways and the Orly airport close by.
The major turning point came in the night of 2 to 3 March 1969, with the transfer of the Halles centrales of Paris, remembered as the removal of the century. Having become too cramped in the capital, the Paris wholesale market moved to Rungis, chosen for its rail and motorway access and for its closeness to Orly. The national wholesale market, split between Rungis and Chevilly-Larue, became the largest fresh produce market in the world. The 1970s saw the addition of the Silic business park, now Icade, and of Sogaris, which anchored the economic vocation of the municipality.
Rungis has 5 611 inhabitants, according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, which makes it one of the smallest municipalities of the inner suburbs of Paris. The population is stable, held back by the space taken up by the market and the business parks, which leave little room for new housing. The stock mixes detached houses in the old village centre and residential buildings; main residences dominate, with a share of owner-occupiers that is notable for the inner suburbs. Buyers are mainly working people employed in the Île-de-France, drawn by quick access to Paris, to Orly and to the main roads, in a municipality quieter than its neighbours once you leave the perimeter of the market.
The average price for apartments in Rungis is 3 953 €/m², based on the DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. As Rungis is a small municipality where few dwellings are sold each year, that average can vary noticeably from one year and one sector to another. The condition of the property, the storey, the presence of outdoor space and the distance to the business parks clearly affect the value.
A large part of the municipal territory is taken up by the national wholesale market and by business parks such as Sogaris and the former Silic. Housing is therefore grouped in the old village centre, around the town hall set in the former country house, and in a few residential sectors. These housing districts, quieter, are clearly separated from the economic areas of the municipality.
Rungis enjoys a very well connected position: the A6 motorway and the main roads of the south of the Paris region run close by, as does the Orly airport. The Pont de Rungis station, on the RER C, serves the municipality and reaches Paris without a change, and the arrival of metro Line 14 at Orly strengthens the links of the area. That accessibility is one of the main residential assets of the municipality.
Like every municipality, Rungis votes each year on its property tax rates, and the town lies in a tight zone in the sense of the housing market of the Paris region. The presence of large business parks and of the national wholesale market weighs in the municipal resources. The applicable rates and any surcharges change from one year to the next: they are to be checked with the town hall and the tax services before any project.
The Rungis stock mixes detached houses of the old village centre and residential buildings of varying sizes. Houses, sought after for their garden, are few on the market in a municipality where land is constrained. The benchmark price of 3 953 €/m² covers the apartment segment. The choice depends on the budget, on the need for outdoor space and on the desired closeness to transport and to the main roads.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).