The average price per m² in Villejuif is 4 881 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 6 464 €/m². About 302 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Villejuif, in the Val-de-Marne.
The average price recorded in Villejuif stands at 4 881 €/m². That average covers a stock that is overwhelmingly collective, where more than eight dwellings in ten are apartments. It blends the post-war housing estates built from the 1950s onwards, such as les Lozaits, a residual low-rise detached fabric that trades higher, at around 6 464 €/m², and the recent developments that have come out of the ground around the Campus Grand Parc. The distance to a metro station opens the gaps from one sector to another. The amounts come from the DVF database, which records sales actually registered before notaries.
House : 6 464 €/m²
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 5 342 €/m² in 2021, the average price in Villejuif reaches 4 881 €/m² in 2026, roughly -9 % over the period.
The first driver of the Villejuif market is hospital and scientific employment. The institut Gustave-Roussy, the Paul-Brousse hospital and the Paul-Guiraud hospital group employ several thousand people in the municipality and draw in care staff, researchers and health students. That population feeds a continuous rental demand, in a municipality where close to two households in three are tenants according to INSEE. The development of the Campus Grand Parc, around the parc des Hautes-Bruyères, extends that specialisation by taking in research activities and new housing.
The second driver is the transformation of transport links. For forty years, Villejuif lived with the terminus of ligne 7, opened in 1985, then with the tramway T7 from 2013. The arrival of ligne 14 in January 2025 and the announced opening of ligne 15 Sud change the position of the municipality in the southern inner suburbs of Paris, by linking it directly to the centre of Paris and to the neighbouring poles. The surroundings of the two stations concentrate most of the new schemes, while the neighbourhoods away from the metro keep more moderate price levels.
Villejuif sits above its immediate neighbour Vitry-sur-Seine, but below municipalities in the south of the Hauts-de-Seine such as Bourg-la-Reine, and far short of Paris levels. Its position as a municipality bordering Paris and the arrival of the metro explain most of these gaps.
The name Villejuif appears for the first time in a papal bull of 27 November 1119, in the form Villa Judea. That mention is the oldest written trace of the town, set on the plateau that overlooks the valley of the Bièvre south of Paris. The territory stayed rural throughout the Ancien Régime: vines, wheat land and stone quarries sat side by side, and its position on the road to Fontainebleau made it a place of passage. On 30 April 1871, the redoubt of the moulin Saquet, held by the fédérés, was taken by the Versailles troops during the Paris Commune. That episode remains the best known feat of arms of the municipality.
Villejuif became, at the turn of the 20th century, a town of public health. A departmental asylum opened there in 1890, followed in 1913 by the Paul-Brousse hospital. It was in that hospital that Professor Gustave Roussy set up in 1921 the first French consultation reserved for cancer patients. The conseil général of the Seine turned the initiative in 1925 into a regional cancer treatment centre for the suburbs of Paris. The building of new premises on the plateau des Hautes-Bruyères was decided in 1964 and the institut Gustave-Roussy was opened there in 1980. These three establishments still take up a large part of the municipal territory.
Settlement followed industrialisation. Working-class estates were built between 1890 and 1920, then the post-war housing estates came out of the ground from the 1950s, notably les Lozaits, Robert-Lebon and Alexandre-Dumas. Transport links were long the weak point: the horse-drawn tramway of 1876, electrified in 1907, was withdrawn in favour of buses in 1933, and it took until 28 February 1985 for the metro to arrive with the extension of ligne 7 to Villejuif Louis-Aragon. The tramway T7 came into service on 16 November 2013, then the extended ligne 14 reached Villejuif Gustave-Roussy on 18 January 2025.
Villejuif has 60 183 inhabitants over about 5,3 km², a density of the order of 11 000 inhabitants per square kilometre. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, 81,4 % of dwellings are apartments and 89,2 % of the stock is made up of main residences: second homes are marginal. Still according to INSEE, 33,5 % of households own their home, against 63,9 % of tenants, of whom 28,9 % are housed in the social housing stock. Buyers are therefore above all working households employed in Paris or in the local hospital and research poles, along with first-time buyers looking for floor area outside the capital.
The average price recorded in Villejuif is 4 881 €/m², all sales combined. That figure comes from the DVF database, which records the sales actually registered before notaries, and not the prices shown in listings. It is a municipal average: between an apartment in les Lozaits and a new-build property close to the Gustave-Roussy station, the gap is wide. A valuation address by address remains necessary before setting a sale price.
The municipality stretches from north to south along the avenue de la République. The north, around Villejuif Léo-Lagrange and the boundary with Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, gains from being immediately next to Paris. The centre, around the town hall and Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, concentrates the shops. The south, towards Louis-Aragon and the plateau des Hautes-Bruyères, is the sector that has moved the most since the arrival of ligne 14.
The municipality hosts two stations of the Grand Paris Express, the new automated regional metro network. Villejuif Gustave-Roussy has been served by ligne 14 since 18 January 2025 and is to become an interchange with ligne 15 Sud, whose opening is announced for 2026. Villejuif Louis-Aragon will be the second station on that ligne 15 Sud, with an underground interchange with ligne 7 and the tramway T7. These openings cut journey times and support demand in the sectors concerned.
The market is first of all an apartment market, which accounts for 81,4 % of the stock according to INSEE. Houses, around 15,5 % of dwellings, are concentrated in the low-rise detached streets inherited from the estates of the early 20th century. They trade at around 6 464 €/m², clearly above the municipal average, because of their scarcity and the value of the land. Selling times there are often longer, for want of comparable supply.
The Campus Grand Parc is the development operation unfolding around the departmental parc des Hautes-Bruyères and the institut Gustave-Roussy, with housing, offices and activities tied to health and research. It brings a supply of new housing to a sector that lacked it, which creates a double market: recent schemes sold above the municipal average and a neighbouring older stock that stays more affordable.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).