The average price per m² in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is 5 455 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 7 364 €/m². About 725 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, in the loop of the Marne.
The average price recorded in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés stands at 5 455 €/m² for an apartment. That average covers a very contrasted stock: small prewar co-ownerships of the Vieux Saint-Maur, buildings of the 1960s and 1970s around the Saint-Maur - Créteil station, millstone houses and estate homes at La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire or at Le Parc, where houses trade rather at around 7 364 €/m². As the municipality occupies a peninsula, the distance to the Marne and to the station explains a large part of the gaps. These figures come from the DVF database, which records sales actually registered before notaries.
House : 7 364 €/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 5 985 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés reaches 5 455 €/m² in 2026, roughly -9 % over the period.
The first driver of the local market is transport. The Saint-Maur - Créteil station is due to become a stop on Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express, the new regional metro network, whose opening has been pushed back several times and is now expected at the end of 2026. With platforms set 52 metres deep, it will be the deepest station in France. The prospect of a direct orbital link towards Villejuif, Issy or Noisy, without going through Paris, has already been factored in by buyers in the station sector, where demand remains firm.
The second driver is the scarcity of land. The peninsula is built over almost all of its 11,25 km², and the low-rise detached districts are protected by the planning rules: output of new housing remains low and is concentrated on a few schemes around the stations and the main axes. Combined with a population growing slightly since 2017 and with family demand coming from Paris, that supply constraint supports values. The local debate on catching up on social housing is the main unknown of the coming years.
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés sits at the top of the Val-de-Marne market, clearly above its immediate neighbours on the opposite bank. It remains, on the other hand, behind the best valued municipalities of the inner ring to the north.
The history of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés begins with a Benedictine abbey founded in 639, under the reign of Clovis II, in the loop the Marne traces before joining the Seine. The monastery was then called Saint-Pierre-des-Fossés. In 868, the arrival of the relics of Saint Maur, fleeing the Norman incursions, made it a place of pilgrimage and gave the municipality the name it still bears. The site owes everything to its geography: a peninsula of 11,25 km² almost entirely encircled by the river, whose narrow isthmus long served as the only land access. That configuration still explains today the layout of the streets and the distribution of the districts.
The urban shift came in the 19th century. In 1831, the sale of the lands of the former estate of the princes of Condé released vast plots to three large developers, who cut the peninsula into residential districts intended for well-off Parisians. The arrival of the railway in 1859 speeded up the movement: the population reached about 7 000 inhabitants in 1870. The banks of the Marne filled with holiday villas, riverside dance halls and rowing clubs. In 1894, a network of compressed-air tramways served the municipality. The town was therefore built through successive low-rise estates, and not around a single centre.
The 20th century densified that legacy without overturning it. The municipality is structured into eight distinct districts, from the Vieux Saint-Maur to La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, by way of Adamville, Champignol, Le Parc, La Pie, Les Mûriers and Saint-Maur-Créteil. The rail network became the RER A, with four stations on municipal territory, a rare case for a town of this size. Reconstruction and collective blocks are concentrated around the stations and the main axes, while the low-rise detached sectors remain protected. Saint-Maur-des-Fossés today has 76 572 inhabitants and keeps a low urban silhouette, very different from the rest of the inner suburbs of Paris.
The market of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is first of all a market of main residences and of settled families. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the municipality has 76 572 inhabitants and close to 38 000 dwellings, of which 92,3 % are main residences: the share of second homes is marginal there, despite the holiday-resort past. The stock splits between around 65 % apartments and 34 % houses, a low-rise proportion that is high for the inner suburbs of Paris. Again according to INSEE, close to six households in ten own their home. Buyers are mainly couples with children coming from Paris or from the neighbouring municipalities, in search of a house or a large apartment within RER distance of the centre.
The average price recorded for an apartment in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is 5 455 €/m². Houses, very present in the municipality, sit clearly above, at around 7 364 €/m². These amounts are calculated from the DVF database, which records the sales actually registered before notaries, and not from listings. They form an average: your property may depart from it appreciably depending on the district, the storey, the condition and the presence of outdoor space.
The municipality is cut into eight districts with very different profiles. La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire and Le Parc, residential, dominated by millstone houses and by the villas of the banks of the Marne, sit in the upper range. The Vieux Saint-Maur, on the tip of the peninsula, keeps a sought-after older fabric. Adamville, more central and given over to shops, along with the sector of the Saint-Maur - Créteil station, count more collective housing and show more affordable values.
The municipality is served by four stations on the RER A: Saint-Maur - Créteil, Le Parc de Saint-Maur, Saint-Maur - Champigny and La Varenne - Chennevières. That density is rare for a town of this size and weighs directly on prices, the walking distance to the station being a leading criterion for buyers. Added to this are the TVM, a bus running in its own lane towards Créteil and Rungis, and a dozen local bus lines.
The two markets coexist, but they do not behave in the same way. About one third of dwellings are houses, an unusual share in the inner suburbs of Paris, and they trade at a level per square metre appreciably higher than that of apartments. The supply of houses remains limited, the land being almost entirely built up. On the apartment side, family properties with outdoor space and close to a station stand out clearly from the rest of the collective stock.
Two points come up often. First, flood risk: as the municipality is hemmed in by the Marne, the sectors close to the banks come under the flood risk prevention plan of the Val-de-Marne, which governs building and extension. Then social housing: with around 9 % social housing in 2022 against a legal target of 25 %, the town is in a situation of shortfall under the loi SRU, the French law on urban solidarity and renewal, and pays annual penalties, which weighs on its planning choices.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).