The average price per m² in Sevrier is 6 104 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 7 494 €/m². About 48 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of a lakeside municipality.
The average price in Sevrier stands at 6 104 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually registered before notaries (DVF is the French record of notarised property sales). The level exceeds that of Annecy, twelve kilometres away, although Sevrier is not a holiday municipality: second homes account for only 18 % of the stock. What sets prices here is a very narrow buildable strip between the lake shore and the slope of the Semnoz.
House : 7 494 €/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 5 400 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Sevrier reaches 6 104 €/m² in 2026, about +13 % over the period.
The Sevrier market is the product of a geometry. Over twenty square kilometres, most of the possible development fits into a narrow strip between the shore road and the lake; beyond it begins the slope of the Semnoz, within the perimeter of the regional nature park of the Bauges massif. That scarcity is not cyclical, it is topographical: it will not ease.
Demand, for its part, comes from Annecy and is not weakening: the population grew by 4 % between 2017 and 2023. The fact that second homes remain a minority is an important signal for a seller: buyers are households financing an everyday home, therefore more sensitive to credit conditions than a holiday clientele. The vacancy rate of 6 % also leaves a little more fluidity than in the tourist municipalities of the lake, where it falls below 2 %.
Placed back in its environment, Sevrier sits above Annecy and far above the Savoy valley towns, a direct effect of the scarcity of lakeside land.
The western shore of Lake Annecy has been inhabited since the Neolithic. Sevrier holds two pile-dwelling sites, those lakeside villages on stilts: the Mongets area, occupied between 1803 and 1766 BCE, with its log path and its two rows of dwellings, and the Crêt de Chatillon, an island now under the lake more than eight hundred metres from the shore, where a dugout oak canoe and traces of bronze metallurgy were found. These two sites are among the one hundred and eleven Alpine pile-dwelling sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list on 27 June 2011.
The Roman period left a milestone of 307, discovered in 1816 at Létraz, on the road that linked Annecy to Faverges. The village then organised itself in bands of altitude, from the lakefront to the hillside hamlets: Beau-Rivage, Létraz, Chuguet, Cessenaz, Les Choseaux. The neo-Gothic church of Saint-Blaise was built from 1876 and consecrated in 1881.
In 1989, the Paccard bell foundry, a company founded in 1796, moved its activity to Sevrier. More than one hundred and twenty thousand bells have been produced there in two centuries, including the Savoyarde, the heaviest bell in France. The Paccard museum, opened in 1984, makes it one of the few industrial and tourist facilities in the municipality.
Sevrier is a main-residence market, not a holiday one. Out of 2 659 dwellings, 2 015 are occupied year-round and only 483 are second homes. Buyers are households of the Annecy basin looking for a lakeside setting twelve kilometres from the centre, with direct access by the departmental road of the western shore and by the cycling greenway. Demand covers houses as much as apartments, with a price gap of about 23 % in favour of houses, which benefit from land and the view.
The average price of apartments is 6 104 €/m² and that of houses 7 494 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. That is above the level of Annecy, though only twelve kilometres away.
Because the physical constraint is stronger. The municipality rises from 440 metres, the level of the lake, to 1 287 metres on the Semnoz: the genuinely buildable strip between the shore road and the water is narrow. To this are added the loi Littoral, the French coastal planning act applicable to the shores of the large lakes, which limits building within a hundred metres of the water, and the perimeters of the UNESCO-listed pile-dwelling sites.
No, and that is what sets Sevrier apart from the lakeside holiday municipalities. Second homes account for only 18 % of the stock, against 76 % main residences. The market is driven by households who live there year-round and work in the Annecy basin.
No. The municipality is read in levels of altitude, from the lakefront at Beau-Rivage up to the hillside hamlets such as Cessenaz or Les Choseaux, by way of the village around the church. Closeness to the shore and the view over the lake make a significant difference in value, which the average price of 6 104 €/m² does not convey.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).