Real estate: these 15 cities where you can buy larger in 2025

Here is how many square meters you can acquire in the 50 main cities of France, depending on the local median income, the evolution of real estate prices and credit rates.

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Determined to jump for real estate purchase, you wonder about the filling of your search criteria on the ad sites. Question area, you would like to buy a hundred square meters. But do you have the means? The Seloger site has evaluated the Real estate purchase capacity of a couple in July 2025 in 51 Main cities in Franceon the basis of the median income in each municipality, of a mortgage over 20 years contracted at the rate of 3.35% and whose reimbursement monthly represents 33% of the median income. Last hypothesis, notary fees and agency fees are funded by the personal household contribution.

Good news for the inhabitants of 15 of these 51 citiestheir real estate purchasing power has increased in the past six months. Concretely, on the basis of median income in Nîmes, of 20,740 euros per person according to INSEE, a household of two adults can buy, in this month, an apartment of 69 square meters. Or 4 square meters more than in January! An increase in real estate purchasing power related to Fall of almost 6% of the average price Ancient apartments in Nîmes in the first half. The evolution of credit rates has played at the margins in improving purchasing power, the average rate of housing credits over 20 years having dropped by only 0.10 points between January and July, according to the borrowed broker, which Seloger uses the data.

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HAS Amiens and Colmar Also, households see their purchasing power climb 4 square meters in the first half of 2025, to 61 and 72 square meters, under the effect, there too, of price falls of 7.4% and 6.2%. Le Havre, Clermont-Ferrand and Tourcoing are not to be outdone, with surface gains of 3 square meters, at 82, 77 and 71 square meters. It must be said that these three cities have a decline of more than 4% of the average price of apartments since January 1.

A dozen other cities saw this purchasing power stagnate during the first half of the year. He therefore dropped in 24 other cities, almost half of the sample studied by Seloger! It was at Le Mans that he has the most unscrewed, 8 square meters, 62 square meters. Nothing but very logical, the average price of apartments that bounced more than 9% in the first half in Le Mans, thanks to the resumption of transactions after two and a half years of a real estate crisis caused by the outbreak of credit rates. HAS Saint-Etiennecandidates for real estate purchase must make a cross over 6 square meters. Despite the rise of 4.6% of the price of apartments in this city, one of the cheapest in France, they remain able to buy … 126 square meters on average.