The average price per m² in Saint-Memmie is 1 229 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 1 876 €/m². About 20 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Saint-Memmie, at the gates of Châlons-en-Champagne.
In Saint-Memmie, the reference price stands at 1 229 €/m² for apartments. This average covers a stock dominated by the detached house, inherited from the town's single-family development along the Marne, while apartments are concentrated in a few residences near Châlons-en-Champagne. The market stays narrow, some twenty sales a year, which makes every area sensitive to the properties sold. Houses and villas sit at a higher level, around 1 876 €/m². These figures come from the DVF database, which lists transactions actually recorded by notaries (DVF is the French notarised sales database).
House : 1 876 €/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.
The Saint-Memmie market follows first the momentum of the Châlons-en-Champagne conurbation, of which it forms the residential frontage. Demand comes above all from families and working people employed in the prefecture town, drawn by houses with gardens at more measured prices than in the Châlons core. The stability of the population, around 5 400 inhabitants, keeps a steady but limited flow of transactions. In this context, the market moves without jolts, carried by local buyers more than by outside pressure, which explains the relative moderation of apartment prices.
The second driver lies in the make-up of the stock and the low number of sales. The dominance of the detached house concentrates trade on single-family housing, while the few apartments count for little in the yearly volume. With some twenty transactions a year, each atypical property can bend the average, which is why it helps to read the trend over several years. The nearness of Reims and the rail access of Châlons-en-Champagne are background supports, without causing the surges seen in tighter markets.
Saint-Memmie shows more affordable prices than its neighbouring prefecture town and well below those of the most sought-after Champagne hubs, which places it in the lower part of the local hierarchy.
The site of Saint-Memmie was occupied well before the year one thousand: digs carried out near the Chemin des Dats yielded Gaulish remains, including a bird-shaped vase dated to the 5th century BC. The commune takes its name from Memmie, held by tradition to be the first bishop of Châlons in the 3rd century and the region's first evangeliser. According to legend, this Roman citizen was sent to Gaul to convert its peoples. He is said to have been buried on what is now the commune's territory, founding the lasting link between the village and the figure of the saint.
Around the tomb, an Augustinian abbey rose in the Middle Ages, known as the abbey of Saint-Menge-lez-Chaalons, dedicated to Memmie of Châlons. For a long time, the life of the town was organised around this religious house and its lands, in a chalky plain geared towards farming and the Champagne vine. The present church, built in the second half of the 19th century, keeps the saint's tomb and period stained glass. This religious heritage explains the old layout of the centre, tightened around the building, before the recent spread of housing towards the outskirts.
In the 20th and 21st centuries, Saint-Memmie became a residential town in the suburbs of Châlons-en-Champagne, part of its conurbation. The former seminary was converted into the town hall, a sign of the shift from a religious town to a community of more than 5 400 inhabitants. Spread over close to thirteen square kilometres, the commune saw housing estates and facilities multiply, while keeping its ville fleurie (town in bloom) label. Its community life, carried in particular by the women's club Saint-Memmie Olympique, goes with this identity of a suburban town leaning on the prefecture of the Marne.
According to INSEE (the national statistics institute), Saint-Memmie has 5 441 inhabitants, a stable population that makes it one of the main towns of the Châlons-en-Champagne conurbation. The market is aimed first at families and working households employed in the nearby prefecture town, looking for a house with a garden a few minutes from the centre. Primary residences clearly dominate the stock, owned by their occupiers for a large part, which limits the number of properties put back on the market each year. Apartments, fewer in number, attract first-time buyers and a few local investors targeting a clientele of salaried tenants.
The reference price for an apartment in Saint-Memmie is 1 229 €/m². This amount is the average of recent sales registered in the notaries' DVF database (the French notarised sales database). Houses and villas, which are in the majority in the commune, trade at a higher level, of the order of 1 876 €/m². The real price of a property depends on its condition, its floor area and its location within the commune.
Yes, very directly. Saint-Memmie forms the immediate residential suburb of Châlons-en-Champagne and is part of the same conurbation. Many buyers work in the prefecture town and choose the commune for its single-family setting a few minutes from the centre. Prices there remain more affordable than in several Châlons districts, however, which feeds steady demand from families looking for a house without moving away from services and jobs.
The stock is dominated by the detached house, the product of the town's single-family development over its thirteen square kilometres. You find above all houses with gardens built through the 20th-century housing estates. Apartments, rarer, are concentrated in a few residences near Châlons-en-Champagne. This dominance of the house explains the price gap seen between apartment blocks and detached housing in the commune.
No, the market stays narrow, with some twenty transactions a year across all property types. This low volume means that a handful of atypical sales can move the average from one year to the next. It is therefore wise to analyse the price over several years rather than a single one. A valuation based on the precise features of the home gives a more reliable picture than a simple town-wide average.
The commune benefits from the immediate nearness of Châlons-en-Champagne and its stations, which put Reims less than an hour away and Paris around an hour and a half away by train. This accessibility, combined with measured prices, supports the interest of households working in the conurbation. It remains, nonetheless, a commune where the car dominates for daily trips, which matters when choosing an area within the village.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).