The average price per m² in Vernouillet is 3 652 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 21 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Vernouillet, in the bend of the Seine.
In Vernouillet, the average price stands at 3 652 €/m². This municipality of the bend of the Seine, forming a continuous urban area with Verneuil-sur-Seine, has a stock dominated by the detached house, completed by more recent apartments. The average covers gaps between sectors: the old centre, the residential slopes and the low-rise areas close to the station do not show the same values. The figure is calculated from the DVF data, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries, and not from advertised asking prices. It is a benchmark, not the precise value of your property.
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 Vernouillet market rests on its status as a well-connected residential municipality. The rail service towards Paris-Saint-Lazare, the closeness of the Poissy employment area and of the western Paris region, and a supply still dominated by the house attract families in search of space. The continuous urban area with Verneuil-sur-Seine and Médan widens the offer of services and shops. These assets sustain steady demand, in particular for houses, in an area where available land is becoming scarce as the bend of the Seine fills in.
The population, in slight recent decline despite a young age structure, reflects a municipality already largely built rather than a loss of appeal. The pace of sales depends above all on the Paris-region economy and on the cost of credit, which weigh on the capacity of first-time buyers. The price position, more affordable than in the central Yvelines, partly shields the municipality from the sharpest downturns. For a seller, the condition of the property, closeness to the station and the presence of a garden remain the decisive criteria, which the municipal average alone cannot convey.
Vernouillet sits in the middle of the municipalities of the bend of the Seine: more expensive than the most working-class towns of the area, but below the best-valued hubs. Its neighbours make that position clearer.
Vernouillet occupies the left bank of the Seine, in the bend that stretches north-west of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, less than thirty kilometres from Paris. A rural village in the Middle Ages, the municipality long lived from the vine: the vineyard covered the slopes facing the river, an activity that shaped the landscape before it declined. Its inhabitants, the Vernolitains, formed a modest farming community. The closeness of the Seine, an old trading route, and the quality of the land fixed settlement very early on this hillside, away from the floods of the river.
The heritage keeps the memory of that past. The Saint-Étienne church, built in the 12th and 13th centuries then restored in the 19th century, overlooks the old centre. The château de Vernouillet, a classical-style building put up in the 18th century, has been converted and today houses a retirement home. It was in its grounds that a notable episode took place: on 25 September 1870, during the siege of Paris, the balloon Ville de Florence, one of the first to leave the besieged capital, landed after some thirty kilometres, its occupants helped by local people to escape the Prussian troops.
The 20th century made Vernouillet a residential municipality of the outer suburbs of Paris. The arrival of the railway, with the Vernouillet-Verneuil station on the Paris-Saint-Lazare line, brought the area closer to the capital and drew working households. Low-rise housing estates and retail areas developed along the Seine, while the old centre kept its lanes around the church. The municipality now forms a continuous urban area with Verneuil-sur-Seine and Médan, in a catchment turned both towards Poissy and towards the Cergy conurbation, on the other side of the river.
Vernouillet has 9 699 inhabitants according to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, a young population since more than four inhabitants in ten are under thirty. The housing stock is dominated by the detached house, which accounts for around six homes in ten, against a little more than a third of apartments. Owner-occupiers are in the majority and almost all homes are main residences, with no holiday market. Buyers are above all Paris-region families in search of an affordable and well-served house, along with first-time buyers drawn by prices more measured than in the central Yvelines. That profile sustains steady demand for houses.
The average price recorded in Vernouillet is 3 652 €/m², according to the DVF data drawn from the sales registered before notaries. That average hides gaps depending on the type of property and the sector: an old house in the centre, a recent house near the station and an apartment do not sit at the same level. It is a market benchmark, to be refined according to the precise features of the home.
Yes. The Vernouillet-Verneuil station, on the Paris-Saint-Lazare line, serves the area directly and reaches the capital in about thirty minutes. The municipality is also close to Poissy and its transport interchange, as well as to the main roads of the bend of the Seine. That service, faster than the distance suggests, is one of the main arguments for buyers who work in Paris or in the western Paris region.
Yes, very largely. Around six homes in ten are detached houses, according to INSEE, and demand goes first to houses with a garden. The supply of apartments, more limited, is concentrated in recent schemes and near the station. Family houses remain the core of the market, which explains a degree of pressure on that segment, while apartments offer a more affordable way into the municipality.
The municipality combines an old centre organised around the Saint-Étienne church, low-rise residential neighbourhoods on the slopes, and more recent areas close to the station and the Seine, where you find shops and small blocks of flats. Closeness to transport, quiet and the presence of a garden are the criteria that make prices vary from one sector to another. Each neighbourhood answers a different buyer profile.
The price level in Vernouillet remains more measured than in the municipalities of the central Yvelines close to Versailles or Saint-Germain-en-Laye. That relative affordability, combined with a good rail service, makes it a municipality sought after by families and first-time buyers looking for a house in the western Paris region without the budget of the most expensive towns of the department. The market nevertheless remains supported by residential demand.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).