The average price per m² in Trouville-sur-Mer is 5 816 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 205 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Trouville-sur-Mer, a fishing port and resort on the Côte Fleurie.
In Trouville-sur-Mer, the average price stands at 5 816 €/m². That average covers a stock in which the apartment dominates widely: small units in the centre and along the quays, but also upper floors with a view in the buildings that line the beach and the Planches boardwalk. The half-timbered villas of the corniche and of the hamlet of Hennequeville, larger and more rarely on sale, pull part of the transactions upwards, while the dwellings of the heights, away from the shore, remain more affordable. This figure comes from the DVF data, that is the transactions actually registered before notaries.
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 Trouville-sur-Mer market answers first of all a demand for second homes, very much in the majority in the stock, and not a local employment area. The resident population has been declining since 1968, but pressure on housing is not easing, carried by buyers from the Île-de-France whom the train puts a little over two hours away. Facing them, supply barely moves: the built front of the seafront has been in place since the end of the 19th century, the slopes that overlook the town are steep and constrained, and the Coastal Act frames new building on the rest of the territory.
The second driver is tourism, spread over a good part of the year. The fishing port is still working, the fish market of the quays and the market draw a weekend clientele out of season, and the casino and the thalassotherapy centre support winter visitor numbers. That activity sustains demand for furnished tourist rentals, with buyers who let for part of the year. It also makes the market seasonal: properties often come up for sale after the summer, which lengthens negotiation times on dwellings without a view or outside space.
Like the other resorts of the Côte Fleurie, Trouville-sur-Mer sits well above the neighbouring Norman urban markets. Its price level compares more with that of the coastal resorts of the Manche than with that of the large cities of the region.
The name of Trouville is recorded in the Latinised form Torouvilla between 1220 and 1223. It joins a Scandinavian personal name, Thorulfr or Turold, to the Latin villa, which denotes a rural estate: the trace of a settlement of Norman origin established at the mouth of the Touques. The site was first of all a strategic crossing point, and Henri V of England landed there on 1 August 1417 before his campaign to conquer Normandy. Until the first third of the 19th century, Trouville remained a fishing village organised around its port, on the right bank of the river, with nothing of the holiday resort that would later make its name.
The coming of artists changed that destiny. The painter Charles Mozin discovered the site in 1825 and made it known through his canvases, Alexandre Dumas stayed there in 1831, and Gustave Flaubert met Élisa Schlésinger there during the summer of 1836. The municipality absorbed the neighbouring village of Hennequeville in 1847, the year of its first casino, then acquired in 1852 a town plan drawn up by Louis Jean Célinski de Zaremba. The opening of the Trouville-Deauville station, on 1 July 1863, brought Paris abruptly closer and set off the building of the half-timbered villas that still line the seafront. The hôtel des Roches Noires opened in 1866, and the pier promenade was laid out in 1890.
In 1860, the duc de Morny launched the resort of Deauville on the other bank of the Touques, a separate municipality that would become its direct rival: the two towns face each other but do not merge. Trouville, long nicknamed the queen of beaches, pursued its growth with the present casino, with its Empire-style front, opened in June 1912. Elected mayor in 1934, Fernand Moureaux had the neo-Norman fish market of the quays built, listed as a historic monument in 1991, destroyed by fire in 2006, then rebuilt identically and reopened in 2011. The population, which peaked at 6 429 inhabitants in 1968, has since fallen back to 4 619.
Trouville-sur-Mer has 4 619 inhabitants for a stock of 9 289 dwellings. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, 70,1 % of these dwellings are second or occasional homes, against 28,1 % main residences and only 1,7 % vacant dwellings. Blocks of flats clearly prevail: 64,3 % apartments for 35,2 % houses. Among main residences, 46,9 % of households are owners and 50 % tenants, with a social housing stock of 704 dwellings that sets Trouville apart from most coastal resorts. Buyers are therefore mostly households from the Paris region and from Normandy looking for a pied-à-terre a little over two hours from Paris, joined by retired people who settle year-round.
The average price recorded in Trouville-sur-Mer is 5 816 €/m². That value is calculated on the sales actually registered before notaries and published in the DVF database, not on asking prices in listings. A given property may depart from it sharply depending on the storey, the view over the bay, the condition of the older fabric and the distance to the beach. Our online valuation refines that average from the features of your dwelling.
Three sectors stand out. The seafront and the Planches, with the apartments looking directly over the beach, concentrate the highest values. The quays, around the fishing port and the fish market, form the historic heart, lively all year round and sought after for its older buildings. The corniche and the hamlet of Hennequeville, on the heights, offer villas and larger plots, but call for a car day to day.
These are two separate municipalities, divided by the Touques, with opposite histories. Trouville is an old fishing village that became a resort, with a working port, a market and shops open out of season. Deauville was created from nothing from 1860 onwards by the duc de Morny, on a regular plan, and turned towards a more fashionable tourism. The two markets follow each other, but their housing stocks and their atmospheres are not alike.
The Trouville-Deauville station, set on the other bank of the Touques, is within walking distance of the centre of Trouville. Nomad trains link it to Paris Saint-Lazare in a little over two hours, by way of Lisieux, Bernay and Évreux, with extra services at weekends and in summer. Lisieux is about thirty minutes away. By car, the A13 then the A132 lead to the foot of the town, and Deauville-Normandie airport is very close.
The residence tax no longer applies to main residences, but remains due on second homes, which make up 70,1 % of the municipality's stock according to INSEE. On top of it comes the property tax, whose rates are voted each year. Municipalities located in tight housing areas may raise the residence tax on second homes: check with the town hall or the public finance office on the situation in force before buying.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).