The average price per m² in Vernon is 2 693 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 2,3 to 3,2 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 10 % over 5 years and rose 0,9 % over the last 12 months, with about 132 transactions per year.
Illustration of Vernon, on both banks of the Seine, at the gateway to Giverny.
Apartments in Vernon sell at an average price of around 2 693 €/m², based on prices actually recorded (DVF data, the French notarised sales database). That is well above the average for the Eure department, and the reason comes down to one thing: the station, which puts Paris-Saint-Lazare forty minutes away. Prices run from around 2 253 €/m² in Vernonnet to 2 964 €/m² in Saint-Lazare, a gap of only 32 %, one of the tightest markets we measure. Houses, at 2 581 €/m², trade slightly below apartments, which is unusual.
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 2 455 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Vernon reaches 2 693 €/m² in 2026, around +10 % over the period.
Change in the average price per m² over twelve months, district by district, based on the most recent DVF sales.
The average price per m² for an apartment in each district of Vernon covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Vernon market rises steadily. The average apartment price went from 2 455 €/m² in 2021 to 2 704 in 2025, a rise of 10 % over the period, with no marked dip, and it is flat over the last twelve months, at 0,9 %. With 132 apartment sales a year, the volume makes those figures solid. The commune has also gained 5,94 % more residents since 2017, when the Eure gained 0,14 %: this is a commune that attracts, and it shows in the vacancy rate too, which falls from 12,5 % in 2018 to 10,7 % in 2023 even as the stock gained nearly nine hundred homes.
Two features set this market apart. The first is its low dispersion: 32 % separate Saint-Lazare from Vernonnet, where a comparable commune sits closer to 50 %. In Vernon, the property counts for more than the district. The second is the reversal of the house-apartment ratio, flats selling 4 % above detached houses, which comes from the housing stock and from the new build of the Fieschi eco-district. A third point deserves stating: despite the immediate proximity of Giverny, the second most visited tourist site in Normandy, the share of second homes is only 1,4 % against 6,3 % for the Eure. Vernon is a town of residents, not a holiday destination.
Vernon compared with the major French cities, on the average price per m² of an apartment.
Vernon was born of a border. The treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, in 911, between Charles III the Simple and Rollo, made the town a frontier post of the duchy of Normandy, where the roads from Paris to Rouen and from Évreux to Breteuil crossed. Contrary to what is sometimes written, Rollo did not found the town: the first known mention in a manuscript dates from 1049. It is that position as a lock on the Seine which explains everything that follows, starting with the tour des Archives, a quadrangular tower of 1123 attributed to Henry Beauclerc, replaced by a round tower twenty-two metres high under Philip Augustus, and listed as a historic monument as early as 1840.
The collégiale Notre-Dame is the other founding monument. Construction began at the end of the eleventh century, the church was dedicated around 1072, a college of sixteen canons was founded there in 1160, its facade dates from the fifteenth century and the works ran from 1360 to 1610. Two spires of seventy metres, a nave of twenty-two metres, a listing in 1862 on the first register of historic monuments. Claude Monet painted six canvases of it between 1883 and 1894. He also painted the Vieux-Moulin, the timber-framed house set on two piers of the former medieval bridge of the twelfth century, dated 1600, whose canvas now hangs in the New Orleans Museum of Art. On the left bank, the château de Bizy, bought in 1721 by the duke of Belle-Isle, grandson of the superintendent Fouquet, earned the town its nickname of the little Norman Versailles: stables for sixty horses built from 1741 to 1743 by Contant d'Ivry, a visit from Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour on 21 September 1749.
The war erased part of all that. The German bombing raids of 8 and 9 June 1940 killed forty-seven people. In 1944 the town suffered thirty-four air attacks between April and August: the railway viaduct was destroyed on 7 May, two hundred and thirty-nine houses were hit, one hundred and seven civilians were killed in four months, and 10 % of the population had to be rehoused. The collégiale lost all its stained glass. Liberation came on 25 August 1944 with the British troops of Montgomery, who crossed the Seine from 25 to 28 August. The rebuilding left one remarkable witness: the îlot Pasteur, built in 1948 by Henri Pottier and Jean Tessier, carrying the Patrimoine du XXe siècle label, whose claustra screens recall the work of Auguste Perret in Le Havre.
Vernon today rests on two things that nothing brought together. The first is the station: 2 046 451 passengers in 2024, the fourth busiest in Normandy, terminus of the Transilien line J, Paris-Saint-Lazare forty minutes away over sixty-six kilometres. That is what makes Vernon a commune in the outer ring of the Paris urban area as defined by INSEE, the French statistics institute, and what explains a price per square metre well above the average for the Eure. The second is space: on the plateau of the right bank, the former ballistics and aerodynamics research laboratory, opened in 1946 and closed at the end of 2012, has become the Campus de l'Espace, seventy hectares where ArianeGroup runs the largest test centre in Europe for liquid-propellant propulsion.
Vernon is a commune in the outer ring of the Paris urban area, and its market has to be read from there. The station puts Saint-Lazare forty minutes away, the A13 puts La Défense forty minutes away through a free double interchange, and the commune has gained 5,94 % more residents since 2017 while the Eure gained 0,14 %. The dominant profile is that of households who work in the Paris region and buy here what they can no longer buy in Mantes or Poissy. To them are added buyers drawn by the setting, the Seine, the cliffs of the right bank and Giverny four kilometres away. Three things to know before buying. The first is that the market is very tight, only 32 % between the most expensive district and the most affordable, which means that the property matters more here than the address. The second is that an apartment sells for slightly more than a house, 2 693 against 2 581, which is unusual and comes from the housing stock, 58 % flats, and from the new build of the Fieschi eco-district. The third is the vacancy rate, 10,7 %, down from 12,5 % in 2018 even though the stock has gained nearly nine hundred homes over the period.
The average price in Vernon is 2 693 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 2 294 to 3 157 €/m² depending on the district. Property portals show asking prices, 10 to 20 % above the prices actually recorded.
No, Giverny is a separate commune of 430 residents, 3,5 kilometres away as the crow flies and about four kilometres by road, within the same conurbation. The house and gardens of Claude Monet, open to the public since 1 June 1980, drew 750 000 visitors in 2023, which makes them the second most visited tourist site in Normandy after the Mont-Saint-Michel. A shuttle links Vernon-Giverny station to the village from April to November. Vernon does own two paintings by Monet, at the musée Blanche Hoschedé-Monet.
Saint-Lazare, to the north between the centre and the Seine, at 2 964 €/m², 10 % above the town-wide average. It carries the Fieschi eco-district, the conversion of the former barracks closed in 1998, whose new build mechanically pulls the average up. Le Parc follows close behind, at 2 890 €/m², but on a volume of only nine sales a year.
The department average runs at around 1 800 €/m², and Vernon stands at 2 693, some 50 % above. The reason lies in the transport links: Vernon-Giverny station is a terminus of the Transilien line J and puts Paris-Saint-Lazare forty minutes away, while the A13 puts La Défense forty minutes away via the A14. INSEE, the French statistics institute, indeed classes Vernon in the outer ring of the Paris urban area.
This is one of the rare communes where an apartment sells for more than a house per square metre, 2 693 against 2 581, a gap of 4 %. Two reasons: the housing stock is 57,9 % flats, and the Fieschi eco-district brings in new build that pulls the collective segment up. Watch the calculation convention: the price per square metre of a house covers the built floor area, whereas the price paid includes the land.
Because they record no single-lot apartment sale over five years. That is the case for Les Valmeux, Les Blanchères and Les Boutardes, the three components of the priority urban policy area of the commune, whose stock is overwhelmingly social housing: social housing units are not sold one by one. It is also the case for Bizy, to the west, which counts 1 081 houses for 164 apartments. We do not publish an apartment price where there is no market to describe.
Start with the walking time to the station, which is the number one factor here. Then look at the period of construction: between the fabric rebuilt in 1948, the interwar suburban housing and the new build of the Fieschi eco-district, the gaps are wide. The district itself weighs less than elsewhere: only 32 % separate the most expensive from the most affordable. The Immover valuation tool draws on the actual sales closest to your address.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).