The average price per m² in Vierzon is 988 €/m² for an apartment, within a range of 0,8 to 1,1 k€ per m², based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. Over the period, the market rose 29 % over 5 years and rose 1,7 % over the last 12 months, with about 65 transactions per year.
Illustration of Vierzon, at the confluence of the Cher and the Yèvre, between the Sologne and the Berry.
Apartments in Vierzon sell at an average price of around 988 €/m², based on prices actually recorded (DVF data, the French notarised sales database). This is one of the lowest levels in France for a town of more than 25 000 inhabitants. Prices run from around 882 €/m² in Le Colombier to 1 059 €/m² in the Villages district, a gap of only 20 %: the Vierzon market is a very narrow one. Houses, at 1 119 €/m², trade 13 % above apartments.
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 766 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Vierzon reaches 988 €/m² in 2026, around +29 % 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 Vierzon covered by Immover, ranked from the most expensive to the most affordable.
The Vierzon market has been recovering for five years, and faster than one would expect of a town in demographic decline. The average apartment price went from 766 €/m² in 2021 to 997 in 2025, a rise of 29 % over the period, and it gains a further 1,7 % over the last twelve months. The path is not a straight line: 2023 marks a low point at 864 €/m² before a clear recovery in 2024 and 2025. The starting point was so low, however, that this progression still leaves Vierzon among the most affordable towns in France.
Two features mark this market. The first is its low geographical spread: 20 % separates the dearest district from the most affordable, where a comparable town sits nearer 30 to 40 %. In Vierzon, the district counts for less than the condition of the property. The second is the inverted size gradient, with a studio 38 % dearer per square metre than a 4-room flat. A third point deserves to be set out, because it bears on every purchase decision here: with 2 342 empty dwellings out of 15 110, available stock remains greater than demand, and that shows first on properties needing renovation, which sell badly.
Vierzon compared with the major French cities, on the average price per m² for an apartment.
Vierzon is a town of confluences. The Cher and the Yèvre meet here, the Barangeon and the Arnon join them in turn, and the canal de Berry runs through it all. It is that position, on the boundary between the Sologne and the Berry, that made the town: first the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Pierre, founded in 843 at Dèvres and moved to Vierzon in 903, of which nothing remains but foundations buried under the town hall car park; then the belfry, the former gatehouse of the castle, standing since the twelfth century, which houses the town clock and served in turn as a night shelter and as a prison. The belfry and the church of Notre-Dame have been listed historic monuments since 1926.
Industry did the rest, and it explains the shape of the town. Porcelain arrived from 1816 and employed 1 500 people by the end of the nineteenth century; the last workshop closed in 1997. In 1847 Célestin Gérard opened a workshop facing the station, which became the Société Française de matériel agricole et industriel, a maker of farm and industrial machinery, bought by the American firm Case at the end of the 1950s and closed for good on 15 December 1995. The glassworks ran from 1860 to 1957, the ceramics works until 1975. Each of those factories built its own workers' estates around it, and it is that scattering of works and estates, more than the old centre, that shapes the Vierzon of today.
The town as we know it in fact dates from 8 April 1937. Until then, four separate communes shared the territory: Vierzon-Ville on the right bank of the Cher, Vierzon-Villages all around it, Vierzon-Bourgneuf on the left bank, detached from Vierzon-Villages in 1887, and Vierzon-Forges to the east, independent since the end of the 1900s. An order from the prefecture, the arm of the French state in each department, put an end to that, and Georges Rousseau became the first mayor of the unified Vierzon after the elections of 2 May 1937. The four names have stayed in use, and the five municipal district councils take them up almost unchanged. On Immover, two of them have no page of their own: Bourgneuf records only three apartment sales a year and Les Forges none at all. These are areas of houses, and we do not publish an apartment price where there is no market to describe.
The most important property fact about Vierzon is neither its history nor its geography, it is its housing stock. The town has 15 110 dwellings, 12 469 of which are occupied as main homes, which leaves 2 342 empty ones and a vacancy rate of 15,5 %, when the national average runs at around 8 %. The population, meanwhile, fell from 33 775 inhabitants in 1968 to 25 068 in 2023. A stock that is not shrinking and a population down by a quarter in fifty-five years: that gap is what holds prices at the level they are, and it is what Action Coeur de Ville, the national town-centre regeneration programme, and the urban renewal contract signed in 2017 are trying to correct.
Vierzon is a market for first-time buyers and small-budget investors, and the figures say so plainly: at an average of 988 €/m², a 65 m² apartment comes to around 64 000 €. Three profiles meet here. Local households who become owners for the price of a rent, in a town where 57,8 % of occupants already own their home. Investors drawn by yields that few towns still offer, but who have to face the vacancy squarely: with 15,5 % of homes empty, the choice of address and the condition of the property count for more here than elsewhere. And buyers who come for the rail position, Vierzon being one of the few junctions where the Paris-Toulouse radial line crosses the Nantes-Lyon cross-country line, with Paris 1 h 35 away. The point to keep in mind before buying is the size gradient: a studio trades at 1 086 €/m² while a 4-room flat or larger falls to 785, a gap of 38 %. The large apartment is the cheapest thing per square metre in Vierzon.
The average price in Vierzon is 988 €/m² for an apartment (actual DVF transactions, notarised sales), within a range of 771 to 1 131 €/m² depending on the district. Property portals show asking prices, 10 to 20 % above the prices actually recorded.
Two causes combine. The population fell from 33 775 inhabitants in 1968 to 25 068 in 2023, a drop of a quarter, while the housing stock did not shrink. The result is a vacancy rate of 15,5 %, against around 8 % nationally: supply lastingly exceeds demand. To that is added deindustrialisation, with the closure of the Société Française, the farm machinery works, in 1995 and of the last porcelain workshop in 1997.
No, and that is a received idea worth correcting. No ranking places it first. It is among the most affordable medium-sized towns in the country, and it is cheaper than Saint-Étienne, often cited as the cheapest large city in France. Within the Cher department it comes second by land value, behind Bourges.
The Villages district, at 1 059 €/m², 7 % above the town-wide average. It is the former commune of Vierzon-Villages, the suburban ring that surrounded the centre before the merger of 1937. The gap with Le Colombier, the most affordable at 882 €/m², is only 20 %: the Vierzon market is one of the narrowest we measure.
Because there is no apartment price to publish for them. Les Forges, the former commune to the east with its own station and its glassworkers' estates, records no single-lot apartment sale at all over five years. Bourgneuf, the left bank of the Cher, records three a year, with no single usable year. These are two areas of detached houses. We prefer to say so rather than calculate a price on almost nothing.
The gap is the widest in the stock: studios and 1-room flats come out at 1 086 €/m² while 4-room flats and larger fall to 785, which is 38 % less. For an investor, the small unit holds its value far better per square metre. For an owner-occupier it is the other way round: the large apartment offers the most floor space per euro, in a town where a 4-room flat often trades below 70 000 €.
Start with the actual condition of the property and its energy performance: in a market where 15,5 % of the stock is empty, a home needing renovation sells far less easily than elsewhere, and the discount is steep. Then look at the floor area, whose effect is large, 38 % between a studio and a large apartment. The district itself weighs little: only 20 % separates the most expensive from the most affordable. The Immover valuation tool draws on the sales actually recorded 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).