The average price per m² in Champ Capelet (Vichy) is 1 700 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,3 to 2,0 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 16 % over 5 years and rose 3,8 % over the last 12 months, with about 82 transactions per year.
Champ Capelet, the market and station district, in the east of Vichy.
Apartments in the Champ Capelet district, in Vichy, sell at an average price of around 1 700 €/m², based on prices actually recorded (DVF transactions, notarised sales). Between 1 320 and 1 953 €/m² covers half of all sales, the gap depending on the floor, the condition of the property, its energy rating and the distance to the station. Five-year change: +16 %.
Prices from the DVF file (Demandes de valeurs foncières, published by the DGFiP), transactions actually recorded at the notary, aggregated at district level using the IRIS zoning of INSEE. Cross-referenced with the Notaires de France - INSEE indices. Learn more about our methodology.
After 1 469 €/m² in 2021, the average price in the Champ Capelet district in Vichy reaches 1 700 €/m² in 2026, around +16 % over the period.
The Grand Marché covered market, six thousand eight hundred square metres open from Tuesday to Sunday, plus the shops of the rue de Paris.
Vichy station, local schools, everyday facilities.
Place Pierre-Victor-Léger, a mixed fabric of late nineteenth-century investment blocks and town houses.
The Champ Capelet district, around the market and the station. Google Maps.
Champ Capelet is the district of the Grand Marché covered market and of the railway station. The market, six thousand eight hundred square metres given over to food retailing, open from Tuesday to Sunday, was built by the Chaumény firm to plans by the architect Jean-Henri Mazon, facing the place du Catalpa, renamed place Pierre-Victor-Léger in June 1955. It is the leading focus of activity in the town after the thermal district.
The district also holds Vichy station, the second busiest in the former Auvergne region after Clermont-Ferrand, with an estimated million and a half passengers in 2023. It is served by the Intercités Paris-Clermont-Ferrand line, with compulsory reservation and seven return services a day on weekdays. This is therefore the arrivals district, and that weighs on its market.
The name of the area does not come from official statistics, which simply call it 'Marché', but from the municipal district committee and from the rue Capelet, which does lie inside the perimeter. Three streets were checked here by point-in-polygon: the rue de Paris, the boulevard Gambetta and the rue du Champ-de-Foire. Sales are concentrated on the rue de Paris, the avenue Victoria, the boulevard Gambetta and the rue Nicolas-Larbaud. The building stock is mixed, between late nineteenth-century investment blocks and town houses.
The district sits at 1 700 €/m², 13 % below the town average. It records eighty-two apartment sales a year, the second highest volume in Vichy. It gains 16 % over five years and 3,8 % over the last twelve months. The area around the place Jean-Épinat falls within Coeur d'Agglo, an inter-municipal priority neighbourhood under national urban policy.
Champ Capelet is the best compromise in Vichy between price and activity. At 1 700 €/m², it stands 13 % below the town average and 29 % below Vieux Vichy, while holding the Grand Marché covered market and the railway station, that is, the two busiest facilities in the town after the Parc des Sources. With eighty-two apartment sales a year, liquidity is good, the second highest in the town. The buyer profile is that of a first-time buyer or an investor looking for a yield without moving away from the centre: the station, a few minutes away on foot, feeds a rental demand that the plateau districts do not have. The size gradient here is steady and rising, from the studio at 1 546 €/m² to T4 and larger at 1 978, which is more conventional than in the rest of Vichy and is worth noting for an investor.
The average price in Champ Capelet is 1 700 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 320 to 1 953 €/m² depending on the building, the floor and the condition.
The station is inside the district. It is the second busiest in the former Auvergne region after Clermont-Ferrand, with an estimated million and a half passengers in 2023, served by the Intercités Paris-Clermont-Ferrand line at seven return services a day on weekdays. Paris-Bercy is around three hours away, Clermont-Ferrand 31 minutes.
'Marché' is the label used by official statistics, generic and borne by no street in the district. 'Champ Capelet' is the name of the town's official district committee, anchored by the rue Capelet, which lies well inside the perimeter. It is a name in real everyday use, independent of administrative nomenclature.
It is one of the best compromises in the town: 1 700 €/m², or 13 % below the town average, with the station and the Grand Marché covered market inside the district, and eighty-two sales a year to underpin liquidity. The size gradient is steady, from the studio at 1 546 €/m² to T4 and larger at 1 978, which leaves a choice of strategy.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).