The average price per m² in Saint-Cloud is 6 517 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 9 911 €/m². About 297 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Saint-Cloud, between terraced park and the banks of the Seine.
The average price recorded in Saint-Cloud stands at 6 517 €/m² for apartments. That average covers a very mixed stock: the older buildings of the centre and of Montretout, the estates of the 1960s and 1970s on the Coteaux, and the more recent schemes of the Val d'Or. The view over Paris, the closeness of the national estate and the distance to the two stations open appreciable gaps from one street to the next. Houses and villas trade at an average of 9 911 €/m². These values come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries.
House : 9 911 €/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.
After 7 248 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Saint-Cloud reaches 6 517 €/m² in 2026, roughly -10 % over the period.
The Saint-Cloud market is carried by steady demand from Parisian households looking for floor space without moving far out. The closeness of La Défense, reached in a few minutes on Line U or by the T2 tramway, and the direct link with Paris-Saint-Lazare place the municipality within the range of short journeys. The national estate of 460 hectares and the Fouilleuse racecourse, which covers 75 hectares shared with three neighbouring municipalities, tie up a large part of the territory: the buildable area remains limited, which contains the volume of properties put up for sale each year.
The pace of transactions sits at around three hundred sales a year, a modest volume that makes averages sensitive to the mix of properties sold over a given period. The shortfall in social housing against the SRU law, which sets a minimum quota per municipality, steers part of the new schemes towards subsidised letting, which reduces the supply available for purchase by as much. The relief plays a marked role too: properties in an overlooking position, with a view over Paris or over the park, trade well above those in the streets below, for comparable floor area and fittings.
Saint-Cloud sits in the upper range of the residential municipalities of the western Hauts-de-Seine. It trades above the municipalities of the neighbouring plateau, but behind Boulogne-Billancourt.
Saint-Cloud owes its name to Clodoald, grandson of Clovis and son of king Clodomir of Orléans. Having withdrawn in the 6th century to the site then called Novigentum, he founded a monastery there and died around 560; the miracles attributed to his tomb had him canonised in the 7th century, and the town took his name. The village suffered Norman incursions between 845 and 885, then the destruction of the Hundred Years' War: English troops burned it in 1346, then again in 1358. Its position on the Seine, at the mouth of the road to Normandy, made it very early a disputed crossing point.
The fate of the municipality turned on its château. Henri III was murdered there by the monk Jacques Clément in 1589. On 25 October 1658, Louis XIV handed the estate to his brother Philippe d'Orléans, who entrusted the gardens to André Le Nôtre and had the Grande Cascade built. Marie-Antoinette bought the property on 20 February 1785. Bonaparte carried out the coup of 18 Brumaire there in 1799, then married Marie-Louise in a civil ceremony there in 1810; Charles X signed the ordinances of July 1830 there before leaving for exile. The château thus concentrates three centuries of French political decisions.
On 13 October 1870, the château burned during the Franco-Prussian war. The municipality came out of the conflict drained: only twenty-one houses were left standing. The ruins were pulled down in August 1892, and the estate, listed as a historic monument in 1900, remains a park of 460 hectares open to the public. Rebuilding gave Saint-Cloud its present look, residential and terraced on the hillside. The racecourse opened on 15 March 1901 on the former estate of Fouilleuse, bought by Edmond Blanc in 1898. In the 20th century, the A13 motorway, the Saint-Cloud tunnel and the viaduct crossing the Seine completed the carving up of the districts.
Saint-Cloud has 29 855 inhabitants. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the municipality counts around 14 400 dwellings, of which nearly 83 % are apartments: the market is first of all one of flats, despite the town's image of villas. Main residences account for around 89 % of the stock and second homes for less than 4 %, the sign of a municipality lived in year-round rather than a market of pieds-à-terre. Again according to INSEE, around 55 % of the households occupying their main residence own it, a share that has risen over recent years. Buyers are above all working families employed in Paris or at La Défense, looking for more floor space than within the capital without leaving the inner suburbs.
The average price of apartments in Saint-Cloud stands at 6 517 €/m², that of houses and villas at 9 911 €/m². These amounts are calculated from the DVF database, which records the sales actually registered before notaries. They cover very different situations depending on the storey, the view over Paris or over the park, the aspect on the hillside and the distance to the nearest station.
The municipality falls into five sectors: Coteaux and Bords-de-Seine along the river, Fouilleuse and Val d'Or to the west near the racecourse, Montretout and Coutureau on the heights, Pasteur and Magenta to the north, and the Centre around the shops. The relief shapes everything else: the hillside falls steeply towards the Seine, and properties in a high position enjoy open views over Paris.
Two stations serve the municipality: the Saint-Cloud station, on lines L and U of the Transilien, and the Val d'Or station, on line L. Line L leads to Paris-Saint-Lazare, line U links La Défense to Versailles and La Verrière. The T2 tramway makes three stops on the territory, Parc de Saint-Cloud, Les Milons and Les Coteaux. The A13 motorway and the Saint-Cloud bridge complete the road links.
Yes. The municipality falls short under the SRU law: social housing accounted for 15 % of main residences in 2015, that is around 1 900 dwellings, below the legal threshold. Saint-Cloud was placed in formal shortfall by the prefect over the period 2017-2019, which transferred the issuing of building permits to the State. That constraint weighs on the pace of new schemes and on the supply available for sale.
The choice is partly dictated by supply. According to INSEE, houses account for around 14 % of the dwellings in the municipality, against nearly 83 % apartments. They are concentrated on the heights, towards Montretout and Coutureau, and come onto the market rarely. The gap in price per square metre between the two categories exceeds 50 % in favour of houses, which reflects their scarcity as much as the size of the plots.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).