The average price per m² in Hôtel de Ville (Vichy) is 2 055 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 1,5 to 2,5 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 27 % over 5 years and rose 6,1 % over the last 12 months, with about 99 transactions per year.
The Hôtel de Ville district, the retail and administrative heart of Vichy.
Apartments in the Hôtel de Ville district, in Vichy, sell at an average price of around 2 055 €/m², based on prices actually recorded (DVF transactions, notarised sales). Between 1 537 and 2 534 €/m² covers half of all sales, the gap depending on the floor, the presence of a lift, the condition of the property and its energy rating. Five-year change: +27 %.
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 1 613 €/m² in 2021, the average price in the Hôtel de Ville district in Vichy reaches 2 055 €/m² in 2026, around +27 % over the period.
The rue de Paris, the rue Maréchal-Foch and the covered passages, the main retail hub of the town.
Town hall, public services, cultural facilities of the centre.
A dense town-centre fabric, covered shopping arcades, immediate proximity to the thermal area.
The Hôtel de Ville district, in the centre of Vichy. Google Maps.
The Hôtel de Ville district is the retail heart of Vichy, and its most active market: ninety-nine apartment sales a year, the highest volume in the town. It is organised around the place de l'Hôtel de Ville, the place Charles-de-Gaulle and the rue de Paris, the main shopping street of the town.
Its architectural signature lies elsewhere than in monuments: it is the covered passages, a series of shopping arcades inherited from the spa town, among them the passage du Commerce, the passage de l'Élysée, the passage de la Comédie and the passage du Sélect. The building stock is dense, made of town-centre blocks with shops at street level, from every period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The name of the district rests on two foundations: it is the one used by official statistics, but it is above all a real place name, with the square, the forecourt and the boulevard de l'Hôtel de Ville all three inside the perimeter. On the other hand, the name of the municipal district committee, 'Coeur de Ville Jaurès-Victoria', should be avoided, as it spans three different statistical areas: the rue Jean-Jaurès in fact belongs to Lac d'Allier and the avenue Victoria to Champ Capelet. One street was checked by point-in-polygon, the place Charles-de-Gaulle, and sales are concentrated on the rue de Paris, the avenue des Célestins, the boulevard Carnot and the avenue du Président-Doumer.
The district sits at 2 055 €/m², 5 % above the town average. It gains 27 % over five years, the second strongest rise in the town, and 6,1 % over the last twelve months. The area around the place Charles-de-Gaulle falls within Coeur d'Agglo, an inter-municipal priority neighbourhood shared with Cusset.
Hôtel de Ville is the most liquid district in Vichy, with ninety-nine apartment sales a year, and that is what makes it the natural entry point to the market. What is bought here is centrality: the shops of the rue de Paris, the covered passages, the town hall, and a thermal district five minutes away on foot. The price, 2 055 €/m², sits between the top of the town and its outer ring, and the wide range, from 1 537 to 2 534 €/m², points to a very mixed housing stock where the floor, the lift and the condition make all the difference. It is also the area that has risen the most after Les Garets, 27 % over five years, which reflects a genuine catching-up of the retail centre. The point to watch is the Action Coeur de Ville programme, the national town-centre regeneration scheme, which will bring around one hundred and twenty refurbished town-centre dwellings back onto the market: good news for the quality of the stock, and also new supply to factor in.
The average price in Hôtel de Ville is 2 055 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 1 537 to 2 534 €/m² depending on the building, the floor and the condition.
It is the most liquid area in Vichy, with ninety-nine apartment sales a year, which makes resale easy to read. Rental demand is driven by the retail centrality and by the immediate proximity of the thermal district. Studios and T1 flats trade here at 2 308 €/m², against 1 745 for a T2: small units hold their value well.
Not exactly, and the distinction matters. 'Coeur de Ville Jaurès-Victoria' is the name of a municipal district committee whose perimeter spans three separate statistical areas: the rue Jean-Jaurès in fact belongs to Lac d'Allier and the avenue Victoria to Champ Capelet. This page covers the retail and administrative heart, around the place de l'Hôtel de Ville and the rue de Paris.
They are shopping arcades inherited from the spa town, and they form one of the signatures of the town centre: the passage du Commerce, the passage de l'Élysée, the passage de la Comédie and the passage du Sélect. They are one of the features that set the retail fabric of Vichy apart from that of an ordinary mid-sized town.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).