The average price per m² in Sartrouville is 3 735 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 5 977 €/m². About 276 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Sartrouville, in the loop of the Seine in the Yvelines.
The average price recorded for an apartment in Sartrouville stands at 3 735 €/m². That average covers a very contrasted stock: the blocks of flats of the Plateau and of the Cité des Indes, built for the most part between 1960 and 1975, sit alongside more recent developments around the station and the town centre. Houses, everywhere in the vast low-rise detached area of the Dix-Arpents, the Plaine and the Vaudoire, trade at a distinct level, around 5 977 €/m². These values come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries.
House : 5 977 €/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 Sartrouville market owes first of all to its position in the loop of the Seine, a few kilometres from La Défense, and to a double rail service that remains its main asset. The municipality has 11 559 jobs according to INSEE for close to 25 000 resident working people: a large share of the population works outside the town, which makes housing values very sensitive to the quality of the links. The redevelopment of the station and the announced arrival of tram T11 in the early 2030s are the two things to watch on that point.
The second driver is the renewal of the Indes district, begun after the demolitions of 2010. The scheme combines social housing and homes for sale, a residence for older people, a student residence and shops, with a new retail hub delivered in stages since 2025. A heat network fed by geothermal energy goes with that programme. These new deliveries bring a supply different from that of the housing estates of the 1960s and gradually change the reading of the north of the municipality, long cut off from the rest of the local market.
Sartrouville stays behind the residential municipalities of the west of the loop, while sitting above the most affordable hubs of the north bank. The contrast plays out over barely a few kilometres.
The name of Sartrouville appears in Latin texts of the early 11th century, in the forms Satorvilla in 1004 then Sartorvilla in 1007, before settling into its present spelling in the 13th century. Its origin is still debated between a Germanic personal name and a reference to winegrowers. The church keeps parts from the 12th and 13th centuries. In the 14th century, the fief of the Vaudoire belonged to Guillaume d'Aulnoy, a counsellor of King Charles VI, before passing through the hands of several noble families. Until the 19th century, the municipality lived mainly on the vine, grown on the slopes that overlook the loop of the Seine.
The arrival of the railway, on the Paris to Le Havre line, upset that balance. It put local wines in direct competition with those of the Midi, and phylloxera finished off the vineyard in 1902. The station lastingly shifted the centre of gravity of the town, from the Vieux-Pays towards the place des Fusillés, redeveloped in 2007. Sartrouville became an industrial municipality: the Jouët boatyard built boats there from 1873 to 1965, a hangar housed the airship Ville de Paris in 1904, and the Chantiers aéro-maritimes de la Seine assembled seaplanes there from the 1920s. The former château became the town hall in 1924. The railway bridge was bombed on 27 May and 24 June 1944.
Population growth followed that movement: 2 211 inhabitants in 1901, 17 866 in 1936, then 40 277 in 1968. The post-war years saw the building of the housing estates of the Plateau, among them the Cité des Indes, which came close to 8 000 inhabitants in 1970, while the largest low-rise detached area of the Yvelines spread between the Dix-Arpents, the Plaine and the Vaudoire. That double origin explains the present shape of the town: slab blocks and towers to the north, a fabric of detached houses to the south and west, and a Seine bank that has stayed little built up. In 2010, three towers of the Cité des Indes, that is 251 dwellings, were demolished under the national urban renewal programme.
Sartrouville has 52 763 inhabitants, which makes it the second municipality of the Yvelines by population. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the town totals 23 357 dwellings, of which 94,0 % are main residences and only 0,9 % second homes: this is a market of occupiers, not of holidaymakers. Apartments account for 64,7 % of the stock and houses for 34,7 %, and 58,0 % of households own their home. Buyers are largely families and working people employed at La Défense or in Paris, sensitive to the rail service, joined by owners already settled locally who change home without leaving the municipality.
The average price of an apartment in Sartrouville comes out at 3 735 €/m², according to the transactions registered in the DVF database. Houses sit clearly above, at around 5 977 €/m², a reflection of a very extensive low-rise detached stock. These values are municipal averages: the storey, the general condition, closeness to the station and the aspect make the price of one property vary markedly from another. An online valuation lets you place your home within that range.
The south and west of the municipality, taken up by the low-rise detached area of the Dix-Arpents, the Plaine and the Vaudoire, concentrate demand for houses. The Vieux-Pays, the historic core around the church, and the immediate surroundings of the station hold buyers who want short journeys. The Plateau, to the north, gathers the blocks of flats of the 1960s and 1970s and shows lower values, with wide differences from one development to another.
Sartrouville station is served by line A of the RER, on the Cergy and Poissy branch, and by line L of the Transilien, which reaches Paris-Saint-Lazare. That double service puts La Défense and central Paris within direct reach, with no change. The station is undergoing works on its accesses and its platforms. The extension of tram T11 towards Noisy-le-Sec, which is to reach Sartrouville, is expected in the early 2030s.
The two markets genuinely coexist, which is uncommon at this distance from Paris. Sartrouville holds the largest low-rise detached area of the Yvelines and houses account for more than a third of the dwellings, according to INSEE. The gap in price per square metre between houses and apartments reaches about sixty per cent there. Flats remain in the majority and offer more affordable entry tickets, in particular on the Plateau and its surroundings.
Yes. The riverside fringe of the Seine, to the east of the municipality, is exposed to floods and is governed on that account by a flood risk prevention plan. That constraint limits building rights and explains why the sector has stayed little built up, unlike the rest of the town. For a property within that perimeter, the statement of risks is compulsory at the sale and weighs in the negotiation.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).