The average price per m² in Saint-Félix is 3 568 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 18 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Saint-Félix, in the Albanais area of Haute-Savoie.
DVF data puts the benchmark price for Saint-Félix at 3 568 €/m² for an apartment. In this rural municipality, however, the market revolves around the house: converted farmhouses, detached houses and properties with land make up most transactions, apartments holding only a small place. The figure used corresponds to sales actually signed before notaries, not to listings. It gives a basis for comparison, to be adjusted according to the nature of the property, its land and its position in the village.
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.
In Saint-Félix, the market is sustained by a well-identified movement: households leaving the cost and density of the Annecy area for an Albanais village where houses with land can still be found at more affordable prices. Demand bears almost exclusively on detached properties, from the renovated farm building to the modern house. With a small volume of sales each year, a transaction depends first on the specific qualities of the property, the size of the plot and the state of the building counting as much as the living area.
Over the long term, the price trajectory remains tied to pressure from the Annecy area, part of whose demand the Albanais captures thanks to more measured levels. The farming vocation of the territory and the protection of hillside landscapes and ponds restrict the release of new plots, which supports the value of existing houses. This combination of an unspoilt rural setting and an in-between position between Annecy and Aix-les-Bains feeds a lasting appeal, without lifting Saint-Félix to the levels of the shores of Lake Annecy.
An Albanais village, Saint-Félix remains more affordable than the Annecy area: its prices stand well below those of Annecy, below those of Aix-les-Bains, and above those of Rumilly, the neighbouring centre.
Rooted in the Albanais country, Saint-Félix is a village of the land, long turned towards mixed farming and livestock on its slopes in the south-west of Haute-Savoie. The municipality touches the boundary of Savoie and spreads along the left bank of the Deysse, in a rolling landscape of fields, orchards and woods that has shaped its rural identity, away from the great lakes but within their influence.
Its territory is home to the Crosagny ponds, a former glacial area laid out as fish reserves for the Count of Geneva as early as the 14th century. The largest of these bodies of water gives rise to the Deysse and stands next to a mill that long paced the local economy. Now a protected natural area between the lakes of Annecy and Bourget, this wetland site testifies to the village's farming and water-management past.
Administratively, Saint-Félix belonged to the province of the Albanais before it was abolished in 1818 and merged into the Genevois, of which Annecy became the chief town. By decree of 20 December 1860, at the time of the annexation of Savoie to France, Napoleon III detached the municipality from the canton of Albens, in Savoie, to attach it to the new canton of Alby, in Haute-Savoie. Today, the growth of the Annecy and Rumilly areas has made the village a residential municipality without taking away its countryside character.
Saint-Félix has around 2 439 inhabitants according to INSEE, a population rising under the effect of the appeal of the Albanais and of the search for countryside around Annecy. The residential fabric rests on the detached house, from the renovated farm building to the recent house, apartments remaining very much in the minority. Demand comes mainly from families and working people employed in Annecy, Rumilly or Aix-les-Bains, looking for an unspoilt farming setting with land. Second homes count for little here: the village lives year-round, to the rhythm of a rural area connected to these employment centres.
For an apartment, the benchmark price stands at 3 568 €/m² according to DVF data, which lists sales signed before notaries. This level is an average: a renovated farm building or an older house in need of work can differ greatly from it, depending on floor area, the state of the building and the location within this Albanais village, in Haute-Savoie.
The village offers a rural setting of slopes and woods, marked by its farmland and by the Crosagny ponds, a protected wetland natural area. This countryside atmosphere, between the lakes of Annecy and Bourget, attracts households looking for quiet and space. The proximity of Rumilly and access to the Annecy and Aix-les-Bains areas round out this setting with the services and jobs a small village lacks.
The market is overwhelmingly made up of houses: converted old Albanais farms, village houses and detached houses with land. The supply of apartments is marginal and limited to a few recent schemes. A buyer targeting Saint-Félix therefore almost always turns to a house, apartments accounting for only a minor share of the municipality's sales.
Saint-Félix lies a few kilometres from Rumilly, the nearest centre, and some fifteen kilometres from both Annecy and Aix-les-Bains, in a crossroads position in the Albanais between the two valleys. The local roads connect the village to these three employment and service areas, which makes it possible to combine country living with reasonable access to town.
A farming village, Saint-Félix is governed by planning documents that preserve cultivated land and hillside landscapes, which limits land open to building. The surroundings of the Crosagny ponds are also subject to environmental protection. Before a project, consulting the local planning document at the town hall makes it possible to check whether a plot can be built on and which rules apply to farm conversions or extensions.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).