The average price per m² in Villiers-sur-Marne is 3 892 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 211 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of the low-rise residential districts of Villiers-sur-Marne.
The average price recorded in Villiers-sur-Marne stands at 3 892 €/m². That average blends two distinct markets: a fabric of low-rise detached housing inherited from the interwar estates, which still accounts for more than a quarter of the stock, and large collective housing estates built in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the new town of Marne-la-Vallée. Recent apartment blocks and detached houses close to the old centre sit above it, the buildings of the Hautes-Noues clearly below. The figure comes from the DVF database, which records sales actually registered before notaries.
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 first driver of the local market is demographic. Villiers-sur-Marne has gained inhabitants over the recent period and counts 33 162 residents on a territory of a little over four square kilometres, which makes it a dense municipality despite its low-rise heritage. That growth comes from Paris-region families leaving costlier municipalities of the inner suburbs of Paris, and from the internal reshaping of the Val-de-Marne. The town lies some fifteen kilometres from Paris, in a sector where price levels stay below those of the municipalities along the Marne, which keeps demand steady on family apartments.
The second driver lies in infrastructure and in the works under way. The building of the Villiers-Champigny-Bry station and the urban renewal project of the Hautes-Noues, under way since the 2009 agreement, have transformed several sectors: demolitions, rebuilding, new roads and new-build programmes. These operations widen the range on offer and open the gap between recent dwellings and the 1960s and 1970s apartment blocks left as they were. The timetable for bringing line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express into service, put back several times, remains the main factor of uncertainty, for buyers as for sellers.
Villiers-sur-Marne sits in the lower part of the range for its sector, just above Champigny-sur-Marne and behind Noisy-le-Grand. The gap is wider still with Le Perreux-sur-Marne, a municipality on the banks of the Marne and closer to Paris.
The name Villiers comes from the Latin villare, which denotes a rural estate. It appears in the form Villarium in the 13th century, then in variants such as Villare ad Matronam, added to tell the place apart from its many namesakes. The first written record of the village is held in the registers of the abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and goes back to 1024: it is that document the town celebrated in 2024 when it marked its thousandth year. The village was then organised around an agricultural seigneury set on the plateau, away from the banks of the Marne, in a landscape of fields and woods that would stay rural until the middle of the 19th century.
Two events then drew the municipality into the orbit of Paris. The Villiers-sur-Marne - Le Plessis-Trévise station opened in 1857 on the Paris-Est to Mulhouse line and put the village within direct reach of the capital. Thirteen years later, from 30 November to 2 December 1870, the plateau was the scene of the battle of Champigny, an attempt by the French army to break out of the Prussian siege of Paris. The fighting, waged in a frost of minus ten degrees on snow-covered ground, left some 9 000 dead on the French side and 3 000 on the German side. The memory of that episode remains attached to heights that are now entirely built up.
Urban growth took two successive forms, still legible in the town plan. In the 1930s, estates of detached houses carved up the former farmland, in particular at the Bois de Gaumont, and drew narrow streets lined with single-family homes. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, Villiers-sur-Marne was taken into sector 1 of the new town of Marne-la-Vallée: the districts of the Hautes-Noues, the Boutareines, the Luats and the Portes de Villiers went up in a few years and changed the scale of the municipality. The Hautes-Noues, classed as a priority district in 2015, have since been the subject of an urban renewal project whose agreement was signed on 29 June 2009.
Villiers-sur-Marne has 33 162 inhabitants. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the municipality holds about 15 100 dwellings, of which 95,3 % are main residences and only 1 % second homes: people settle here to live year-round. The stock is mostly collective, with 70,9 % apartments, but it keeps 27,6 % houses, a clearly higher share than in the Val-de-Marne municipalities bordering Paris. Still according to INSEE, 46,8 % of households are owners and 52 % tenants. Buyers are therefore largely Paris-region families looking for a detached house or a large apartment that is still affordable, and first-time buyers drawn by the rail service.
The average price recorded in Villiers-sur-Marne is 3 892 €/m². That average is calculated from the sales registered in the DVF database, which lists the transactions actually completed before notaries. It aggregates studios, family apartments in the large housing estates and detached houses on estate plots, whose values differ widely. Your property may sit away from it depending on the district, the condition, the storey, the presence of a garden or of parking.
The low-rise fabric remains the best valued segment, in particular the Bois de Gaumont and the residential streets close to the old centre and to the boundary with Le Plessis-Trévise. Recent apartment blocks a few minutes from the station follow. Conversely, the large estates of the 1960s and 1970s, first among them the Hautes-Noues and the Boutareines, trade below the municipal average, with gaps that owe as much to the condition of the buildings as to their location.
The Villiers-sur-Marne - Le Plessis-Trévise station has been served by the RER E since 30 August 1999 and links Gare de l'Est and Haussmann-Saint-Lazare in about twenty minutes. Several bus routes provide connections to Champigny-sur-Marne, Noisy-le-Grand and Le Plessis-Trévise, and the A4 motorway runs south of the territory. The Villiers-Champigny-Bry station, on line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express, is due to open at the end of 2026.
The Villiers-Champigny-Bry station, set at the junction of Villiers-sur-Marne, Champigny-sur-Marne and Bry-sur-Marne, will link the municipality to the orbital route of the Grand Paris Express without going through Paris. An interchange with a new RER E stop is planned for a later stage, around 2030. The surroundings of the station concentrate the development schemes and the new-build programmes. The real effect on prices is measured over time, station by station, rather than anticipated.
More easily than in most Val-de-Marne municipalities close to Paris: according to INSEE, 27,6 % of dwellings are houses. They are mostly detached houses from the estates of the 1930s and the decades that followed, on often narrow plots. The volume available stays limited and properties in good condition sell quickly. Allow for a longer search than for an apartment, and have the roof and the insulation checked on pre-war buildings.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).