The average price per m² in Vaugneray is 3 359 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 14 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Vaugneray, a canton seat of the Monts du Lyonnais, west of Lyon.
The average price recorded in Vaugneray stands at 3 359 €/m². This average covers a market dominated by detached housing: according to INSEE, the French statistics institute, more than 72 % of the municipality's dwellings are houses, against less than 28 % apartments. The old village centre clustered around the church, the hillside housing developments built since the 1960s and the few recent apartment buildings in the centre do not sell at the same level. The pace of transactions remains measured, around fifteen sales a year on the retained basis, which makes each property fairly decisive in the average. The figures come from DVF data, the French notarised sales database, which lists the transactions actually registered with 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 Vaugneray market depends first on property pressure in Lyon. When prices rise in Lyon and its inner ring, some buyers turn to western Lyon and the Monts du Lyonnais, where houses with land can still be found. Vaugneray benefits from this movement, with demand regularly exceeding the number of properties available. This imbalance supports prices, but the low volume of transactions, around fifteen sales a year, makes the average sensitive to the features of the few properties sold each year.
Two factors will weigh on the coming years. On one hand, the municipality remains sought after for its setting and its position, both rural and close to Lyon, which limits falls. On the other, the cost of credit and the energy renovation requirements for older housing bring stronger selectivity: renovated, well-located houses sell without difficulty, while energy-hungry properties face discounts and longer selling times. With buildable land remaining limited, new supply stays contained.
A municipality of the Monts du Lyonnais further from Lyon than the hubs of the inner ring, Vaugneray sits below Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, which is better served and closer to the city. The gap is more measured with Brignais and with its immediate neighbour Grézieu-la-Varenne.
Vaugneray lies in a valley on the eastern side of the Monts du Lyonnais, crossed by the Yzeron, some twenty kilometres west of Lyon. The site has been occupied for a long time: the Romans mined veins of silver-bearing lead in the surrounding area, and two branches of the Yzeron aqueduct, built under Augustus to supply Lugdunum, passed through this territory. The name of the municipality is thought to derive from Latin, around the idea of a dark valley, echoing the wooded slopes or the dark rock known as vaugnérite, a local granite that gave its name to the village. The church of Saint-Antoine, rebuilt in the 19th century, retains elements of it.
For more than a century, the population remained stable, at around 2 100 to 2 200 inhabitants, in a rural village economy geared to farming, textiles and the laundries that worked for Lyon. As a canton seat, Vaugneray also hosted the fairs and the market of the area. The turning point came in the 1960s: the municipality moved into Lyon's residential orbit and its population more than doubled, driven by the arrival of new households rather than by an excess of births. On 1 January 2015, Vaugneray absorbed the neighbouring municipality of Saint-Laurent-de-Vaux. It now has around 6 300 inhabitants and works first and foremost as a commuter municipality, with a large share of its working residents employed outside its territory.
According to INSEE, Vaugneray has around 6 300 inhabitants and nearly 2 500 dwellings, most of them main residences; second homes are marginal, a sign of a municipality of permanent residents rather than a holiday destination. Houses account for more than 72 % of the stock and owner-occupiers are a large majority, around seven households in ten, with tenants making up the rest. Buyers are mainly households from the Lyon area looking for a greener setting and more space without moving too far from the city: families looking for a house with land, working people commuting to western Lyon or to Lyon itself, and buyers already settled in the canton who move to another property locally. Demand often exceeds the available supply, which supports prices despite a limited number of sales.
The average price recorded is 3 359 €/m², calculated from the transactions registered by notaries and published in the DVF database, with a very similar median. This is a municipal average, which combines varied properties: an old village house, a detached house in the hillside developments and a recent apartment in the centre do not belong to the same segment. The condition of the property, the size of the plot, the aspect and the view over the valley explain a good part of the differences around this average.
The market is first and foremost a market for houses. According to INSEE, houses account for more than 72 % of the municipality's dwellings, against less than 28 % apartments. The supply of houses, from the old village to the detached houses on the slopes, is therefore the most plentiful, while apartments remain limited and concentrated in a few developments in the centre. For an apartment, the choice is narrower and points of comparison fewer, which sometimes makes the search longer.
The closeness of Lyon plays the main role. Located some twenty kilometres from central Lyon, in a rural and hilly setting of the Monts du Lyonnais, Vaugneray attracts households who want a house with land while keeping access to the metropolitan area and its jobs. This commuter-belt demand, combined with limited land and a low volume of sales, keeps prices above those of more rural municipalities further inland, without reaching the level of the towns of the inner ring.
The municipality is linked to Lyon and western Lyon by road, supplemented by coach lines of the departmental network. Most working residents drive to work, a large share of jobs being located outside the municipality. This dependence on Lyon makes Vaugneray a market of permanent residents: buyers weigh travel time against quality of life, and the best-served properties or those close to the village services sell more easily.
In a housing stock largely made up of old houses or houses built between the 1960s and the 1990s, the energy performance certificate and the state of the insulation deserve close scrutiny, as they now weigh in negotiations. The relief of the Yzeron valley makes aspect, the slope of the plot and access significant from one property to another. Finally, it is useful to consult the local urban development plan and the rules applying to plots, as well as any risks linked to watercourses, before committing.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).