The average price per m² in Suresnes is 6 670 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 8 795 €/m². About 444 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Suresnes, between the hillsides of the Mont-Valérien and the banks of the Seine.
The average price for apartments in Suresnes stands at 6 670 €/m². That average covers a very mixed stock, spread over six neighbourhoods with distinct profiles: the recent buildings born of the conversion of the factories along the Seine, the older fabric of the Centre-ville and République, the brick of the cité-jardins on the plateau, and the houses clinging to the hillsides of the Mont-Valérien and Liberté, where the slope and the view over Paris make values vary widely. Houses and villas come out at an average of 8 795 €/m². These figures come from the DVF database, which records the sales actually registered before notaries, and not from listings.
House : 8 795 €/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 7 145 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Suresnes reaches 6 670 €/m² in 2026, roughly -7 % over the period.
The Suresnes market is driven first of all by employment. The municipality borders La Défense, the leading business district in Europe, and has itself converted its former industrial land along the Seine into office buildings. Buyers are looking for a short commute without the prices of Neuilly-sur-Seine or Boulogne-Billancourt. With 48 956 inhabitants on a territory hemmed in between the river and the Mont-Valérien, new supply remains limited: recent schemes come mainly from urban renewal operations on plots that are already built, rather than from extensions.
The second driver is transport. The absence of a metro long penalised the municipality against neighbours directly connected to the Paris network. The tramway T2 and lines L and U of the Transilien now provide the links to La Défense and Paris Saint-Lazare, and work has begun on the Rueil-Suresnes Mont-Valérien station, on Line 15 West of the Grand Paris Express, the new regional metro network. The sectors within walking distance of that future station and of the T2 stops are where demand is most clearly concentrated.
Suresnes sits clearly above Rueil-Malmaison, its neighbour to the west, at a level very close to Courbevoie, and appreciably below Boulogne-Billancourt.
The name Suresnes appears in 884, when King Carloman II granted lands known as Surisna to an abbey. The parish was constituted around 1070. For centuries the village lived off the vines planted on its south-facing hillsides and off fishing in the Seine; the wine of Suresnes was sold in Paris. The raising of a calvary on the Mont-Valérien in 1633 drew pilgrims, and with them inns and then open-air dance halls. The landscape changed in the 19th century: the fort of the Mont-Valérien was built from 1841 as part of the fortified ring around Paris, and the first bridge over the Seine, opened in 1842, finally connected the village to the capital.
From the 1890s, factories settled along the river and turned the wine-growing village into a working-class town. Alexandre Darracq founded his motor company on the quai de Suresnes in 1896; the firm became Automobiles Talbot in 1922 and occupied the site until after the war. Aviation followed, with Blériot, Nieuport and Farman, alongside the manufacturers Unic and Saurer. The population rose quickly and building spread up the heights. That industrial imprint explains the present layout of the town: large plots of land along the Seine, converted since the 1980s into offices and housing, and a denser suburban fabric behind the quays.
Henri Sellier, mayor from 1919 to 1941, made Suresnes a laboratory of social urban planning. In 1921 he launched the cité-jardins on the plateau of la Fouilleuse, a set of low-rent dwellings with gardens and collective facilities, completed in stages until the end of the 1950s, and had the open-air school of Beaudouin and Lods built, opened in 1935. The Mont-Valérien, a place of execution under the Occupation, received in 1960 the Mémorial de la France combattante, inaugurated by General de Gaulle. The gradual closure of the factories after 1945 gave way to a mixed fabric of offices and housing, in the extension of La Défense.
Suresnes has 48 956 inhabitants. The market here is first of all that of a year-round residential municipality: according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the town totals around 23 300 dwellings, of which nearly 21 600 are main residences, against 2 % second homes and 5 % vacant dwellings. The stock is very largely collective, with more than 20 000 apartments for fewer than 2 600 houses. Tenants outnumber owners: around 37 % of households own their home. Buyers are mainly working people employed at La Défense or in Paris, and families looking for the floor space and the green space that the capital no longer offers them.
The average price for apartments in Suresnes stands at 6 670 €/m², and that for houses and villas at 8 795 €/m². These values are calculated from the DVF database, which lists the sales actually signed before notaries. They are municipal averages: the storey, the view over Paris or over the Seine, the year of construction and the distance to the tramway stops make the price vary appreciably from one property to another.
The town is divided into six neighbourhoods: Centre-ville, République, Écluse-Belvédère, Liberté, Mont-Valérien and Cité-jardins. The hillside sectors, Mont-Valérien and Liberté, hold most of the houses and the open views over Paris. Centre-ville and République form a denser, more urban fabric, close to the shops. Écluse-Belvédère runs along the Seine and concentrates a share of the schemes born of the conversion of the former industrial land.
Suresnes is not served by the metro. Journeys go through the tramway T2, which links La Défense in a few minutes from the Belvédère and Suresnes-Longchamp stops, and through the Suresnes Mont-Valérien station on lines L and U of the Transilien, which lead to Paris Saint-Lazare and to La Défense. The future Rueil-Suresnes Mont-Valérien station, on Line 15 West of the Grand Paris Express, is under construction.
Supply is unbalanced: according to INSEE, the municipality has more than 20 000 apartments for fewer than 2 600 houses. The houses are concentrated on the hillsides of the Mont-Valérien and Liberté, and in the low-rise detached sectors inherited from the interwar years. That scarcity shows in prices: the average for houses and villas comes out about a third above that for apartments. Search times are logically longer.
Launched in 1921 by mayor Henri Sellier and continued until the end of the 1950s, the cité-jardins occupies the plateau of la Fouilleuse with its brick buildings, its terraced houses and its collective facilities. It remains largely a set of social rented housing, which reduces by as much the volume of properties available for sale in that sector. Its built heritage is showcased by the museum of urban and social history located on the site.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).