The average price per m² in Vélizy-Villacoublay is 4 243 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 6 667 €/m². About 136 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Vélizy-Villacoublay, on its plateau at the edge of the Meudon forest, in the Yvelines.
The average price recorded in Vélizy-Villacoublay stands at 4 243 €/m². That average covers a stock dominated by flats, inherited from the urban transformation of the 1960s and 1970s: the large estates of the plateau, the developments of the Mozart and Louvois neighbourhoods, and more recent buildings close to the shopping centre and the tramway. Houses, a minority and concentrated in low-rise detached sectors such as Le Clos, trade at a clearly higher level, around 6 667 €/m², which reflects above all their scarcity in the municipality. These figures come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries.
House : 6 667 €/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.
The Vélizy-Villacoublay market owes to its double nature of residential town and major employment hub. The immediate closeness of the plateau offices, the service by the T6 tramway and the main roads, together with the green setting on the edge of the Meudon forest, sustain steady demand. That demand comes both from employees working locally and from Paris-region households looking for a larger home than in Paris, within reasonable distance of the capital and of Versailles.
Supply is shaped by the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s: large blocks of flats whose energy performance is becoming an ever clearer point of negotiation, alongside recent estates and the rare houses, which hold at higher levels. As elsewhere in the inner suburbs of Paris, renovated properties with a good energy rating sell faster, while homes needing work see buyers negotiate. Against more expensive neighbouring municipalities of the Hauts-de-Seine, Vélizy-Villacoublay holds a more affordable position, which adds to its appeal.
Backing onto the Meudon forest, Vélizy-Villacoublay sits below its neighbours of the Hauts-de-Seine and of the Versailles area: its market remains more affordable than that of Meudon, Chaville or Versailles, while sharing the same wooded plateau setting.
An agricultural village on the plateau until the 19th century, Vélizy had only a little more than two hundred inhabitants in 1851. Its fate turned with the aviation adventure. As early as 1910, the comte de Lambert set up his Wright aircraft there, soon followed by the Breguet, Morane-Saulnier and Nieuport workshops. Louis Breguet enlarged his factory from 1914 by taking over former Michelin premises, and the Villacoublay airfield became one of the great centres of the emerging aviation industry, between production and flight testing.
The plateau also hosts a military air base, active since the 1910s and known today as air base 107 Sous-Lieutenant Dorme. At the turn of the 1960s, the cramped site and urban pressure put an end to civil testing: the base refocused on defence and transport missions. That aviation imprint remains part of the identity of the municipality, whose name brings together the two former hamlets of Vélizy and Villacoublay.
The town as we know it was born of a deliberate development scheme launched in 1962. In about a dozen years, vast housing estates rose from the ground and the population went from a few hundred to several thousand inhabitants. In 1972 the Vélizy 2 shopping centre opened, which today counts more than one hundred and seventy shops and services, and the plateau gradually filled with company headquarters. Vélizy-Villacoublay then saw itself as a new town, mixing housing, industry and offices.
Vélizy-Villacoublay has 23 011 inhabitants on a plateau of nearly 900 hectares, more than a third of it wooded, on the edge of the Meudon forest. The housing stock is mostly flats, marked by the estates built during the development of the 1960s and 1970s, with a more limited share of houses grouped in the low-rise detached sectors. Buyers are for many of them households working locally or in the neighbouring employment hubs, drawn by the immediate closeness of their office, the green spaces and the transport. You also find first-time buyers and families looking for a larger apartment than in Paris while staying close to the capital and to Versailles.
The municipal average comes out at 4 243 €/m², drawn from the sales registered before notaries and published in the DVF database. That figure aggregates very different properties, from the old studio in a large estate to the recent family apartment near the tramway. The address, the storey, the aspect, the year of construction and the energy rating explain most of the gaps. For a reliable valuation, it is better to rely on comparable sales than on the town average alone.
The municipality reads as several residential neighbourhoods, among them Le Clos, Le Mail, Louvois, the Mairie sector and the two estates of Mozart Est and Mozart Ouest. To these is added a vast office district, turned towards company headquarters and business premises. The low-rise detached sectors and the most recent estates generally sit above the average, while the older large estates pull values down. Each neighbourhood therefore has its own price range.
Since the end of 2014, the T6 tramway has served the town with several stops on its territory, linking Châtillon on one side and Viroflay on the other, where you can join the RER C. The municipality is also bordered by the A86 motorway and the N118 trunk road, which give fast access to Paris, to Versailles and to the rest of the Hauts-de-Seine. That service, both by road and by public transport, is one of the drivers of the residential appeal of the plateau.
Yes, that is one of the features of the municipality. The plateau concentrates a large office hub, attached to the northern part of the Paris-Saclay science and technology cluster, with many headquarters and corporate centres. The Vélizy 2 shopping centre and its one hundred and seventy shops form an employment area in their own right. That economic presence feeds housing demand from employees who want to live a few minutes from their work.
It is possible, but supply remains limited. Houses are concentrated in the low-rise detached sectors such as Le Clos and trade at a noticeably higher level than flats, around 6 667 €/m². Sale references being few there, the valuation of a house depends above all on its condition, the size of the plot and its location, more than on the municipal average. An opinion based on recent sales in the same sector is particularly useful here.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).