The average price per m² in Thyez is 3 038 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 63 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Thyez, a municipality of the Arve valley, in Haute-Savoie.
Expect an average of 3 038 €/m² for an apartment in Thyez, based on DVF transactions registered with notaries. This level reflects a municipality of the Arve valley, where housing answers first a main-residence demand tied to the precision machining employment area, rather than a ski resort clientele. The average covers a varied stock: buildings and developments in the town, apartments in the valley-floor estates, houses and more recent properties on the slopes rising towards the heights. Floor level, aspect, the presence of a garage or outdoor space and the condition of the home make values vary. Set between Cluses and Bonneville, at the heart of a dense industrial fabric, Thyez keeps prices more measured than those of the neighbouring tourist municipalities, which makes it an accessible market for working people of the valley.
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 Thyez market is steady and little given to speculation, with a constant flow of apartment sales in the DVF data, in keeping with a municipality where property follows the economic life of the valley first. Demand comes mainly from people working in precision machining and services, which makes the market less sensitive to seasonal swings than that of the resorts. Supply grows at the pace of valley-floor schemes, land remaining constrained by the relief and the business parks.
Several factors frame this price level. The proximity of the Geneva employment area, motorway access and the industrial dynamism of the Arve valley support stable demand for main residences. Conversely, the absence of a tourist role, the industrial environment of the valley floor and competition from neighbouring municipalities keep Thyez at a level well below that of the ski resorts of the Faucigny and the Giffre.
Thyez sits above Cluses, its immediate neighbour on the valley floor, and at a level close to Bonneville, another gateway municipality of the Arve valley. It remains far below Les Gets, a ski resort whose prices belong to an entirely different segment, pulled up by second-home buyers.
Thyez is a long-settled site of the Arve valley. A Gallo-Roman settlement developed there from the middle of the 1st century BC until the end of the 3rd century, beside a secondary road linking the plain to the Great St Bernard pass. The municipality thus played a role in the ancient organisation of the territory and in controlling the passes of the massif, long before the industrial growth that would mark the valley.
The modern history of Thyez is inseparable from precision machining, a speciality of making precision parts born in the Arve valley at the end of the 19th century. From the workshops of Scionzier and Cluses, the activity spread to the neighbouring municipalities, including Thyez, which hosts many firms in the sector. Haute-Savoie today concentrates most of French precision machining, and the valley remains a leading industrial district, of which Thyez is one component.
A member of the Cluses Arve et Montagnes community of municipalities, Thyez occupies the valley floor, between the river and the wooded slopes of the Faucigny. The municipality combines business parks, a residential town and high-altitude hamlets. Its position on the route linking Geneva and Annecy to the upper Arve valley and the ski resorts makes it a place to live for working people, at a distance from both the large centres and the ski areas.
Thyez has 6 309 inhabitants. An industrial municipality of the Arve valley, it lives first to the rhythm of the precision machining employment area and attracts a year-round working population. Buyers are mostly households working in the valley, first-time buyers and families looking for a main residence close to their jobs, along with working people from the Geneva area drawn by prices more contained than in the Genevois itself. Second-home demand is marginal here, the municipality not being a resort: the market rests on the apartments of the town and the houses of the slopes, sought after for everyday use.
The average apartment price in Thyez is 3 038 €/m², based on DVF transactions actually completed before notaries. This average covers gaps depending on floor level, aspect, the presence of a garage or outdoor space and the condition of the property. A recent apartment with outdoor space and an older home in need of renovation do not trade at the same level.
Thyez is an industrial municipality on the floor of the Arve valley, not a ski resort. Its market answers a main-residence demand tied to the precision machining employment area, and not a tourist clientele. This vocation explains prices more measured than in the nearby mountain municipalities, whose values are pulled up by second homes.
Thyez lies in the Arve valley, in Haute-Savoie, between Cluses and Bonneville. The municipality is served by the A40 motorway, which links Geneva and Annecy to the upper Arve valley and to Chamonix. The nearest station, at Cluses, is on the valley railway line, which makes journeys towards Annemasse and Geneva easier.
No, very little. Thyez is not a resort and its demand comes essentially from working people of the valley looking for a main residence close to their jobs. This structure gives a more stable and less seasonal market than that of tourist municipalities, with steady turnover driven by job moves and family paths.
The benchmark price of 3 038 €/m² relates to apartments, well represented in the town and the valley-floor estates. Houses, on the slopes or in the hamlets, address buyers looking for space and outdoor room. The choice depends on the budget and the way of life, between proximity to services in the town and the quiet of the heights.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).