The average price per m² in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois is 3 065 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 2,4 to 3,7 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 2 % over 5 years and fell 4,8 % over the last 12 months, with about 135 transactions per year.
Illustration of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, from the keep to the Orthodox church.
Apartments in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois sell at an average price of around 3 065 €/m², based on transactions actually recorded (DVF data, the French notarised sales database). Set in the Orge valley, 24 km south of Paris and served by RER line C, the commune shows wide gaps from one district to another. Prices run from around 2 362 €/m² in Le Parc Pierre to 3 722 €/m² in the town centre. Les Aunettes, which carries close to a quarter of the sales, sits at 2 871 €/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 3 014 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois reaches 3 065 €/m² in 2026, roughly +2 % over the period.
Change in the average price per m² over twelve months, district by district, based on the most recent DVF sales.
The average price per m² for an apartment in each district of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Sainte-Geneviève market is that of an outer-suburb commune whose supply is very evenly split between detached houses and large estates. With an average price of around 3 065 €/m² for an apartment, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois sits in the middle of the Essonne, level with Savigny-sur-Orge and below Athis-Mons. Volume runs at 135 apartment sales a year, a modest figure for the population, the commune being largely made up of detached houses.
The gap between districts reaches 58 %, from the town centre to Le Parc Pierre. The commune eases back by 4,8 % over twelve months, a movement driven by two districts: the town centre, which loses 14,3 % on 21 annual sales after a high point in 2024, and Le Perray, which loses 7 % over twelve months and 15 % over five years, the sharpest fall in the commune. Conversely, Cocheris gains 13,8 % and Le Parc Pierre 10,7 %, but on volumes of only 14 and 10 annual sales, which call for caution.
With an average price of around 3 065 €/m², Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois sits at the level of the French regional cities, far behind Paris. Its RER line C service and its fabric of detached housing make it an outer-suburb commune with a steady market.
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois was long a village of the Orge valley, overlooked by a castle of which the medieval keep survives. The name of the commune is today known well beyond the Essonne for another reason: its Russian Orthodox cemetery, opened in 1926, and its church consecrated in 1939, one of the most visited sites of the Russian emigration in western Europe.
Urbanisation came with the railway, on the Paris to Bordeaux line, then in successive waves: interwar detached housing estates in Le Perray and to the north, large estates of the 1960s and 1970s in Les Aunettes and Le Parc Pierre, extension of the south-east along the route de Corbeil. The Croix-Blanche retail park, to the south, has become the largest retail park in the Paris region.
The geography of prices follows that history. The town centre, around the town hall, holds the top of the market at 3 722 €/m², followed by Cocheris and Victor Hugo, between 3 490 and 3 557 €/m². Liers sits at the level of the commune. Les Aunettes, Le Perray and Le Parc Pierre, where 1960s and 1970s flats dominate, close the ranking between 2 362 and 2 871 €/m². The gap between the most expensive district and the most affordable reaches 58 %.
The Sainte-Geneviève market is that of an outer-suburb commune served by RER line C, half an hour from Paris. Buyers are first of all first-time buyers and families from the Essonne or the inner suburbs looking for affordable floor area, often a detached house, sometimes a three or four-room flat in the large estates. Investors find yields here above those of the inner suburbs, carried by the rental demand tied to the RER and to the employment areas of Croix-Blanche and the Orge valley.
The average price in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois is 3 065 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 2 405 to 3 720 €/m² depending on the district. Property portals show asking prices, 10 to 20 % above the prices actually recorded.
No, the gap reaches 58 %. The town centre shows the highest average price, around 3 722 €/m², while Le Parc Pierre sits at around 2 362 €/m². Between the two, Les Aunettes sits at 2 871 €/m² and Liers at the level of the commune, at 3 065 €/m².
The commune combines a direct link to Paris on RER line C, a broad fabric of detached housing, the proximity of the Francilienne ring road and the largest retail park in the Paris region at Croix-Blanche. Prices there remain markedly lower than in the inner suburbs, for appreciably larger floor areas.
Over five years, the average price gains around 2 %. Over the last twelve months, the commune loses 4,8 %. The movement is not uniform: Cocheris and Le Parc Pierre gain markedly while the town centre and Le Perray ease back.
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