The average price per m² in Viroflay is 5 535 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. For a house or villa, it is 8 251 €/m². About 133 transactions are recorded each year.
Mood illustration of Viroflay, between Versailles and the forest of Meudon, in the Yvelines.
The average price recorded in Viroflay stands at 5 535 €/m² for an apartment. That average covers a stock mixing older buildings close to the two stations, collective residences built after the 1960s and more recent programmes. Viroflay also has a notable share of single-family houses, often millstone houses from the turn of the 20th century set on the hillsides: they trade at a clearly higher level, at around 8 251 €/m², a gap that reflects their relative scarcity and the appeal of the wooded setting. These figures come from the DVF database, which records the transactions actually registered before notaries.
House : 8 251 €/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.
The Viroflay market rests on a fairly particular combination: a very wooded setting at the gates of Paris, the immediate closeness of Versailles and a double rail service backed by the T6 tramway. That accessibility supports steady demand from Paris-region families looking for space, a garden or a house, without moving far from the capital. The tightness is concentrated on the millstone houses and on the large apartments close to the stations, the rarest and most contested properties.
Supply remains constrained by the modest size of the municipality and by the large share of forest land, which limits building plots. New-build programmes, few in number, pull apartment values upwards, while the older stock feeds most of the transactions. As everywhere in Île-de-France, energy performance has established itself as a negotiating criterion, in particular on the older millstone houses, which are costly to renovate. Bounded by municipalities such as Chaville, Sèvres or Versailles, Viroflay sits in the upper part of the range for this fringe of the Yvelines.
Backing onto the wooded massifs at the boundary of the Hauts-de-Seine, Viroflay sits in the upper middle of its valley: at roughly the level of Chaville, above Sèvres and Ville-d'Avray, but below nearby Versailles.
Viroflay takes its name from a Gallo-Roman villa, the Villa Offleni, the property of one Offlenus. Over the centuries the name slid from Villoflein to Viroflein, then Virofle, before settling as Viroflay. The municipality occupies a small valley in the south-western suburbs of Paris, about fourteen kilometres from the centre of the capital and three kilometres from the château de Versailles. Its territory remains heavily wooded: close to two fifths of its surface is covered by forest, between the Fausses-Reposes massif to the north and the forest of Meudon to the east.
Long attached to great landowners, the seigneury passed in the 17th century to the Aymery family, who shared it in 1661 with Michel Le Tellier, chancellor of France. On his death, his widow sold the estate to Louis XIV in 1695: Viroflay thus stayed within the royal domain until the revolutionary years, on the road linking Paris to Versailles. The church of Saint-Eustache, raised from 1543 on the ruins of an older chapel, is the oldest building in the municipality; it was made a royal chapel in 1715. The present conservatoire, for its part, occupies a former seigneurial house of the 17th century.
Until the middle of the 19th century, Viroflay lived mainly from its cereal crops and its vines. The arrival of the railway, around 1840, upset that village economy and started the shift into a residential municipality. The hillsides were gradually covered with villas and millstone houses, while the two railway lines lastingly anchored Viroflay in the orbit of Paris.
Viroflay has about 17 237 inhabitants on a compact and very green territory. The housing stock is mixed: apartments, concentrated around the stations and along the main routes, and a sizeable share of single-family houses, many of them millstone houses inherited from the residential boom of the early 20th century. Several sectors stand out, such as Viroflay Rive Droite, valued for its station and its shops, the Haras district and the edges of the forest, sought after for their quiet houses. Buyers are above all Paris-region families who have come looking for a wooded setting and schools nearby, households working in Paris or in Versailles, and purchasers drawn by the double rail service and the tramway.
For an apartment, the average price recorded is 5 535 €/m², calculated from the sales registered before notaries and published in the DVF database. It is a municipal average, which covers an older studio near the station as much as a recent apartment. The address, the storey, the aspect, the year of construction and the energy rating explain most of the gaps. For your property, a reliable valuation rests on comparable sales, not on the average alone.
Houses, often millstone houses set on the hillsides, trade at a higher level than apartments, at around 8 251 €/m². They are sought-after properties, limited in number, whose value depends greatly on the plot, the condition, the view and closeness to the forest. Since sale references are fewer than for flats, valuing a house calls for a case-by-case examination.
The municipality reads through several moods. Viroflay Rive Droite, around its station and its shops, forms a lively and well-served sector. The surroundings of the Haras and of the forest edge offer a more residential habitat, with fine quiet houses. Le Plateau, up on the heights, mixes houses and small apartment blocks. These sectors do not all sell at the same level, closeness to a station and to the forest counting for a great deal.
Viroflay enjoys a rail service that is rare for a municipality of this size. Viroflay Rive Gauche station is linked to the RER C and to line N of the Transilien, towards Paris-Montparnasse; Viroflay Rive Droite station serves line L, towards Paris-Saint-Lazare. Since 2016, the T6 tramway has also linked Viroflay to Châtillon, crossing Vélizy and the forest of Meudon, by way of two underground stops. The centre of Paris is reachable in about twenty minutes.
As in the Paris conurbation, letting a furnished tourist rental is regulated and involves formalities at the town hall. Since part of the municipality lies on the forest edge and on wooded hillsides, it is worth checking the planning documents and the risk statement before a purchase, in particular for sloping plots. The tax treatment applying to a second home is also worth anticipating, depending on your plans.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).