Real estate: discover the time required to sell accommodation in large cities

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Finally, are we finally heading for a real estate crisis? According to the latest Se-Loger barometer/Best Agents, real estate prices go back up with an increase of +0.3% in March, since the start of the year. This increase in prices is explained by a return of buyers to the market, in particular due to the drop in mortgage rates, which fell from a point since the start of 2024. This good news allowed buyers to win +7% of real estate purchasing power between March 2024 and March 2025, according to Seloger/Best Agents. These last twelve months, demand has thus increased by +16% on average in the ten largest cities in the country when the supply was reduced at the same time by -7%.

As you can see, real estate finds more easily leaning in this spring 2025, compared to last year. Consequently, the sales deadlines, that is to say the time elapsed between putting the announcement and the sales compromise online, are down in most major French cities. In Paris, where the average price per square meter is by far the highest in the country (9,418 euros in April 2025), housing is sold on average in 75 days in April 2025, against 78 days last January. In Montpellier, the request has soared in recent months since the average sale period in the Hérault prefecture has dropped 10 days since the start of the year, reaching 80 days in April 2025.

Sales deadlines that should continue to retreat

To a lesser extent, buyers are also back in Lyon (-2 days since the start of the year), Marseille (-1 day) or La Rochelle (-2 days). Note that Seloger/Best Agents have identified an impressive increase in the number of buyers over the last twelve months in Bordeaux (+33%), Toulouse (+27%) and Strasbourg+24%). Sales times should therefore continue to retreat in the coming weeks in these three cities.

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If the trend is generally downwards in this spring with regard to sales times, a few cities are still an exceptional figure, with buyers who are still waiting. In Cannes, a property remains for example on average 97 days on the market in April 2025, an increase of two days compared to January. Same trend in Brest (+10 days), Angers (+2 days) or Le Mans (+15 days).