The average price per m² in Vanves is 6 508 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 10 002 €/m². About 317 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of Vanves, in the Hauts-de-Seine.
The average price recorded in Vanves stands at 6 508 €/m². That average covers a stock that is almost entirely made up of flats, where the apartment accounts for the bulk of sales. The old centre, around the church of Saint-Rémy and the market, mixes prewar buildings and recent renovations, while the Plateau, to the north, lines up residential blocks of the 1960s and 1970s. The municipal territory does not exceed 1,56 km², which limits new supply and concentrates transactions on the existing stock. The amounts come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries, and not the prices displayed in listings.
House : 10 002 €/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 7 133 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Vanves reaches 6 508 €/m² in 2026, roughly -9 % over the period.
The first driver of the Vanves market is its position as a municipality bordering Paris. The town touches the 15th arrondissement and the exhibition centre of the porte de Versailles, and adjoins the employment hub of Issy-les-Moulineaux. It works as a direct extension of the capital, at a lower price level, for households looking for extra floor space without moving away. According to INSEE, the average household size there fell between 2012 and 2023, which feeds continuous demand for small and medium units, in a municipality where half the dwellings are occupied by tenants.
The second driver lies in transport and in the scarcity of land. Line N of the Transilien puts the Vanves-Malakoff station a few minutes from Montparnasse, and the works on Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express, the new regional metro network, are preparing a Clamart station on the edge of the municipality, interchanging with that same Line N. That prospect of a new orbital service supports demand in the south of the territory. Against that, supply remains constrained: the territory of 1,56 km² is built up almost everywhere, most sales concern the existing stock and the renewal of the stock happens piecemeal.
Vanves sits well below Paris levels and those of Boulogne-Billancourt, while remaining above municipalities further out in the south of the department such as Bourg-la-Reine. Its position as a municipality bordering Paris explains most of that gap.
The name of the municipality appears in the form Venva in a text of 999, then as apud Vanvas in 1203, before settling as Vanves in 1801. The site was occupied far earlier: excavations carried out in 1999 in the rue Gaudray brought to light Gallo-Roman baths of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. In the Middle Ages the territory belonged to the abbey of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, mentioned as lord of the place in 1163; the inhabitants obtained their enfranchisement in 1247. The church of Saint-Rémy, which still structures the old centre, dates back to 1419 and remains the oldest landmark of the town.
At the start of the 18th century, Claude Le Bas de Montargis, lord of Vanves, entrusted his father-in-law Jules Hardouin-Mansart with the laying out of the estate: the château was built in 1698 and the park drawn in the French formal style. The property was sold in 1717 to the prince de Condé, who received the young Louis XV there in 1721. Declared national property in 1792, it was acquired in 1798 by the Prytanée français, then from 1853 housed the elementary classes of the lycée Louis-le-Grand. Having become too cramped, it was enlarged by the architect Louis-Joseph Duc. It is today the cité scolaire Michelet, surrounded by a park of 17 hectares listed as a historic monument.
The 19th century redrew the municipal boundaries. The reform of 1860 attached part of the territory to the 15th arrondissement of Paris. The opening of the station on 1 October 1883, on the line from Paris-Montparnasse to Versailles, went with the separation of Malakoff, which became an independent municipality that same year. Vanves then found itself reduced to a narrow strip of 1,56 km². The 20th century brought it intense urbanisation: the market gardens of the Plateau filled with blocks of flats, and the municipality left the department of the Seine for the Hauts-de-Seine in 1964. The result is a compact town, built up to its limits and without any land reserve.
Vanves has 28 622 inhabitants on 1,56 km², a density close to 18 000 inhabitants per square kilometre. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the stock comprises close to 15 800 dwellings, of which around 92 % are apartments and a little under 7 % houses. Again according to INSEE, close to 88 % of these dwellings are main residences, and occupancy is split almost evenly between owners, around 47 %, and tenants, a little over 50 %. The average household size has fallen from 2,11 people in 2012 to 2,02 in 2023. Buyers are above all working households employed in Paris or in the office hub of Issy-les-Moulineaux, and families looking for floor space impossible to find in the 15th arrondissement.
The average price recorded in Vanves is 6 508 €/m², all sales taken together. That figure comes from the DVF database, which records the transfers actually registered before notaries, and not online listings. It is a municipal average: between an apartment of the 1960s on the Plateau and a renovated property in the old centre, the gap can be wide. The storey, the lift, the aspect and the distance to the station also count. A valuation address by address remains necessary before setting a sale price.
The municipality fits into 1,56 km², but it reads as two wholes. The old centre, arranged around the church of Saint-Rémy, the town hall and the market, brings together the shops and the oldest buildings. The Plateau, to the north, takes in postwar residential blocks, often larger, with open views towards Paris. The south of the territory is taken up for a large part by the park of the cité scolaire Michelet, which makes housing supply scarce there.
The Vanves-Malakoff station, opened in 1883, is served by Line N of the Transilien and places the municipality about four minutes from Paris-Montparnasse, with up to four trains an hour. The Malakoff-Plateau de Vanves station, on Line 13 of the metro, serves the north of the territory. Several RATP bus lines, among them the 59, 89 and 126, complete the network. That immediate closeness to Paris explains a large share of buying demand in the municipality.
It is possible, but supply is narrow. INSEE counts a little over 1 000 houses for close to 15 800 dwellings, less than 7 % of the stock, mainly in the narrow streets of the old centre and on the edges of the Plateau. House sales come out at around 10 002 €/m², clearly above the municipal average: the gap owes to the scarcity of the product and to the value of the land in a town built up to its limits. For most projects, the search therefore turns to the apartment.
Few, and in small operations. With 1,56 km² of which a large part is taken up by the park of the cité scolaire Michelet, the railway land and the already built fabric, the municipality has no land reserve. New building therefore goes through added storeys, demolition and rebuilding and a few isolated blocks, rarely through whole districts. A buyer aiming for Vanves should expect to buy in the existing stock, with the usual questions of co-ownership, façade renovation and energy performance.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).