Real estate: here are the rare cities where prices are still falling in 2025

The prices of old apartments go back to the 50 largest cities in France in February 2025, while they accused decreases at the same time in 2024 and 2023, according to Seloger.

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If you plan to buy a accommodation in Caen, Bourges, Nantes or Metz, you have a hollow nose. With Saint-Etienne, Perpignan and Avignon, these municipalities are among the rare cities to accuse more price reductions Relatively significant, from -0.7% to -1.1%, in February, compared to January, according to data published by the real estate advertisement portal this Monday, March 3. More than half of the 50 largest cities in France have seen the prices of old apartments go back last month, so that this category of municipalities has a total of 0.1% of prices in February. An increase certainly very light but which “Tends to confirm that The worst is behind us“, After two and a half years of real estate crisis, estimates Seloger. The prices were indeed down in the first 50 French municipalities in February 2024, as in February 2023.

Other “Strong signal” From this start of the release of a drop in prices started two years ago, they start up in five of the 10 largest cities in France, when all had seen their prices retreat or, at best, stagnate, in February 2024, underlines the real estate ad. Strasbourg and Montpellier Arrive at the top of the peloton with prices up 0.6%in February, compared to January, followed by Lyon (+0.5%) and Toulouse (+0.4%). HAS Niceprices increase less clearly, but by +0.1% all the same. And, even for half of the 10 largest cities in France which see their prices continue to decrease in February, “The time is optimistic”assures Seloger, falling under a lower declines that a year ago. In Rennes, for example, prices fell by only 0.4% in February 2025, against -0.6% in February 2024. Ditto in Bordeaux, with a drop brought from -0.7% to -0.5% in the space of a year, and in Lille, where prices drop only 0.1%, against -0.9% in February 2024.

The Nantes exception

“In this context of gradual market recovery, Nantes is an exception»»observe Seloger. With prices down 0.7% in February, bringing their decrease to 1.3% since the start of the year, “Nantes is the only large metropolis in France who continued to sink”notes the real estate advertising portal. Some large cities, which had seen theEurs prices Bonding between 2016 and 2022when the very low credit rates encouraged the French to buy, undoubtedly have not finished with the drop started since mid-2010, recently warned Loïc Cantin, president of the National Real Estate Federation (FNAIM), citing precisely the case of Nantes, where prices had jumped 55% between 2025 and 2022.

More generally, the boss of FNAIM warned that the drop in prices of old real estate in France, to which the sellers had ended up resolving themselves, in the face of buyers disolved by the outbreak of the rates between the beginning of 2022 and the end of 2023, “Seemed now stopped”. An observation shared by Charles Marinakis, president of the network ofreal estate agencies Century 21 France, for whom “The drop in prices for old real estate is (already) finished in 2025!”. Thanks to the resumption of real estate transactions, under the effect of price reductions and credit rates, it even provides A price increase of 2 to 3% in 2025for all of France.