The average price per m² in Saint-Maurice is 5 796 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 146 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Saint-Maurice, on the banks of the Marne in the Val-de-Marne.
The average price recorded in Saint-Maurice stands at 5 796 €/m². That average covers a stock almost entirely made up of flats: according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, 93,4 % of the dwellings in the municipality are apartments, against 4,4 % houses. It blends older buildings clinging to the hillsides, developments built after 1970 and a few more recent schemes close to the river. Houses, which are very rare, trade at a markedly higher level, around 8 829 €/m², which reflects their scarcity rather than a market of their own. The figures come from the DVF database, which records sales actually registered before notaries.
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-Maurice market owes to its position in the inner suburbs of Paris, in direct contact with the capital and the bois de Vincennes. The municipality captures overspill demand from Parisian households looking for a larger apartment a few minutes from Paris while staying at the water's edge. With a population that has grown by 3,2 % since 2017 according to INSEE, and a stock almost entirely made up of flats, pressure bears above all on family apartments and on properties with a view over the Marne.
New supply remains limited by the small size of the territory, 1,43 km², largely taken up by the hospital and by infrastructure. The recent schemes on the banks of the Marne pull values upwards, while the stock of the 1970s and social housing weigh on the average. As everywhere in the Île-de-France, energy performance has become a point of negotiation, in particular on the older buildings of the hillsides. The closeness of more expensive municipalities such as Vincennes or Saint-Mandé places Saint-Maurice in an intermediate band of the eastern Paris market.
Backing onto Paris and the bois de Vincennes, Saint-Maurice sits in the upper middle of its band of the Val-de-Marne: above Maisons-Alfort, below Charenton-le-Pont, and close to Nogent-sur-Marne, another municipality on the banks of the Marne.
The municipality was long called Charenton-Saint-Maurice and took the name Saint-Maurice only in 1843, when it was administratively separated from Charenton-le-Pont. Set on the right bank of the Marne, just upstream of its confluence with the Seine, it occupies a tight territory of 1,43 km² backing onto hillsides, between Paris and the bois de Vincennes to the north, Charenton-le-Pont to the west and Maisons-Alfort to the south. That position as an eastern gateway to Paris, at the water's edge, has shaped its history.
Its most striking building is the Esquirol hospital, the former Maison royale de Charenton founded in 1641 to take in destitute patients. The establishment, devoted to psychiatry, counted among its residents the marquis de Sade and the poet Paul Verlaine. It owes its name to the head physician Jean-Étienne Esquirol, who arrived in 1825, and its neoclassical silhouette to the architect Émile Gilbert, who redrew it from 1838 onwards. The painter Eugène Delacroix was born on the territory of the municipality in 1798.
Saint-Maurice also held a place in the history of French cinema thanks to its studios, in operation from 1930 to 1971. Films that have become classics were shot there, such as La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau and Les Diaboliques by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The municipality today combines that heritage, a strong hospital presence and a dense residential fabric, a few minutes from Paris.
According to INSEE, Saint-Maurice has 14 506 inhabitants for 7 524 dwellings, of which 6 635 are main residences, 88,2 % of the stock; second and occasional homes account for only 4,7 %. The stock is almost exclusively made up of flats, with 93,4 % apartments and only 4,4 % houses. Among households in main residences, 39,4 % are owners and 54,9 % tenants, a high share of tenants that owes to the weight of social housing and of the developments of the 1970s. Buyers are above all Paris-region households looking for an apartment close to Paris, first-time buyers and families drawn by the setting of the banks of the Marne.
The average price recorded is 5 796 €/m², calculated from the transactions registered before notaries and published in the DVF database. It is a municipal average, covering both an older studio on the hillsides and a recent apartment close to the Marne. The address, the storey, the view over the water, the year of construction and energy performance explain most of the gaps. A reliable valuation rests on comparable sales, not on the municipal average alone.
The municipality is very tight and reads according to three logics. The banks of the Marne, with their recent buildings and open views, form the most sought-after sector. The hillsides rising towards the plateau hold older housing, in places low-rise detached. The sector close to the Esquirol hospital and to Charenton mixes developments of the 1970s and social housing. These three settings do not sell at the same level.
Saint-Maurice touches Paris at the bois de Vincennes and the porte de Charenton. The municipality has no station on its own territory, but the Charenton-Écoles metro station on Line 8 and the RER A at Joinville-le-Pont are very close, putting the centre of Paris around twenty minutes away. The A4 motorway runs along the south of the territory: convenient for car journeys, it weighs on the other hand on the noise environment of certain sectors.
It is rare. According to INSEE, houses account for only 4,4 % of the dwellings in the municipality, against 93,4 % apartments. The few houses stand mainly on the hillsides and trade at a markedly higher level than flats. Sale references there are few, so that valuing a house depends above all on its condition, its plot and its view, rather than on the municipal average.
As across the whole Paris metropolitan area, letting a furnished tourist rental is regulated and requires a declaration to the town hall. Part of the land close to the Marne is exposed to flood risk: that information is to be checked in the planning documents and in the statement of risks before a purchase. Finally, the tax treatment of second homes is worth anticipating according to your plans.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).