The average price per m² in Saint-Alban is 2 544 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 13 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Saint-Alban, a municipality in the northern suburbs of Toulouse in the Haute-Garonne department.
In Saint-Alban, the benchmark price stands at 2 544 €/m² for an apartment. This level places the municipality in the middle range of Toulouse's northern ring, appreciably below Toulouse but above the municipalities further from the metropolitan area. 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: between the recent apartment blocks close to the main roads and the detached houses of the 1980s, each property still needs to be assessed according to its floor area, condition and location.
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 Saint-Alban market follows that of the Toulouse metropolitan area, whose population growth remains among the strongest in France. This momentum pushes households towards the inner ring every year, where the same budget can still buy a house with a garden. The volume of apartment sales remains modest, around fifteen a year, which makes the average sensitive to the mix of properties sold and to the delivery of new developments.
In the longer term, the trajectory will depend on the vitality of Toulouse's aerospace and office employment base, and on the ability of the north of the metropolitan area to absorb demand through densification rather than sprawl. Improved public transport towards northern Toulouse is a lever for value growth in well-served municipalities. Finally, energy performance widens the gap between renovated detached houses and the rest of the housing stock.
Saint-Alban sits in the middle of its area: its prices are above those of Castelginest and Launaguet, its immediate neighbours, and remain below Aucamville, closer to Toulouse.
Saint-Alban occupies the plain north of Toulouse, between the lateral canal and the farmland rising towards the Frontonnais. For a long time the village amounted to little more than a small rural parish organised around its church and a few farms built of traditional fired-clay brick, the material that gives the Toulouse area its pink hue and that can still be seen in the municipality's older buildings.
The turning point came with the spread of the Toulouse conurbation from the 1960s, accelerated by the growth of the aerospace industry. Saint-Alban then changed scale within a generation, growing from a few hundred inhabitants to several thousand, with successive housing developments built around the old core. This rapid growth explains the municipality's current appearance: a modest centre surrounded by uniform neighbourhoods of detached houses and more recent apartment developments.
Saint-Alban is today a municipality of Toulouse Métropole, the metropolitan authority, with its own schools, sports facilities and local shops, forming a continuous urban area with Castelginest, Aucamville and Launaguet. Bus lines of the metropolitan network link it to the terminus of metro line B at Borderouge, and the Blagnac aerospace hub lies less than ten kilometres away. This position, in the inner northern ring without being hemmed in by the city, shapes its residential market.
According to INSEE, the French statistics institute, Saint-Alban has around 6 534 inhabitants. The market is aimed mainly at families and working households of the Toulouse conurbation, often employed in aerospace, office-based sectors or services, who are looking for a house with a garden or a family apartment at a lower price than in Toulouse. Demand is mostly for main residences, in a housing stock split between detached houses and recent apartment blocks. The price level, affordable by the standards of the metropolitan area, makes it a municipality for first-time buyers and for households who can no longer afford to buy in Toulouse.
The benchmark price in Saint-Alban stands at 2 544 €/m² for an apartment. This figure comes from DVF data, the sales actually signed before notaries. It is an average: a new apartment in a recent development and a detached house from the 1980s needing a refresh differ markedly from this base, depending on floor area, condition, plot and location within the municipality.
The Saint-Alban covered here is in the Haute-Garonne department, about ten kilometres north of Toulouse, within Toulouse Métropole. Other municipalities bear the same name, notably in the Ain and Côtes-d'Armor departments, with unrelated markets. The data on this page relate only to the municipality near Toulouse.
Bus lines of the metropolitan network link the municipality to the northern terminus of metro line B at Borderouge, putting the centre of Toulouse around thirty minutes away by public transport. By car, the ring road and the main roads of northern Toulouse give quick access to the centre as well as to the Blagnac aerospace hub, less than ten kilometres away.
The municipality's housing stock remains dominated by detached houses from the housing developments of recent decades, but the supply of apartments has grown with recent schemes. For a family project, a house with a garden is the most common product; an apartment suits a first purchase or a buy-to-let investment, in an area where rental demand is supported by the proximity of Toulouse.
The municipality lies on a plain, with areas exposed to surface runoff risk and subject to requirements linked to the watercourses of northern Toulouse, governed by the planning documents. The densification of the inner ring is also leading to changes in building rules that are worth checking before any extension project. As everywhere, energy performance weighs on running costs and value: detached houses from the 1970s and 1980s deserve particular attention on this point.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).