Trained in Lille at the start of the school year, here you are looking for a rental. Good news, the capital of Flanders is one of the metropolises where a person winning the Average net salary in France Can hope to rent a more spacious accommodation than a year ago. On the basis of this average net salary, valued at 2,735 euros monthly By INSEE, you are now possible for you to rent 61 square meters in Lille, compared to 53 square meters a year earlier, calculates Manda company, specializing in the administration of real estate, in a study published this Thursday, July 17.
Either A gain of 8 square meterswhich almost corresponds to a room. Or an office, practical for teleworking. With this surface gain, you change the typology of housing, around sixty square meters corresponding to a three room while a fifty square meters is equivalent to a T2. To achieve this result, Manda analyzed some 20,000 rental announcements and based on rent representing 35% of the average net salary, that is to say the effort rate it observes in its tenants.
Supervised rents and increasing salary
You do not move to Lille but under the sun of Marseille? Never mind! In the Marseille city too, you gain square meters compared to last year. Still with a net monthly income of 2,735 euros, you can rent a three room of 67 square meters, against 62 square meters in July 2024. 5 square meters gainas in Toulouse, where, in July 2025, you can claim 75 square meters. And what about Nantes! In the space of a year, you have earned 10 square meters, this same average net salary of 2,735 euros today giving you access to a 68 square meter T3.
In Nantes, as in Lille, rents are supervised, while the average net salary has climbed almost 4% in a year in France. Hence an improvement in the purchasing power of tenants in these cities. Improvement to put on the account, in Toulouse, to “”the arrival of new dwellings related to the construction of line C of the metro»»explains Manda.
New tenant, rent increase? Please note, it is prohibited in these 1,000 cities!
No more than 23 square meters in Paris
And at Pariswhere the rents are also supervised, can you rent larger than a year ago, with a net salary of 2,735 euros per month? The answer is “no”, you must always settle for a studio of 23 square metersas in July 2024. “Very expensive, very tense (with much fewer accommodation offers than requests), the Parisian market remains a separate case, little reactive to income fluctuations” Tenants, explains Manda.
There is still worse: in Bordeaux and Lyon, the tenants have lost purchasing power in the last 12 months. With an average net salary of 2,735 euros, you can rent 64 square meters in Bordeaux, 2 square meters less than a year earlier. HAS Lyonyou have to make a cross over 11 square meters! With the average net salary in France, you can only rent a T2 of 49 square meters In the capital of Gaul, against a 60 square meter T3 a year ago. It must be said that in Lyon, where Foncia manages 30,000 rental homes, “Only 200 are available, a vacation rate of only 0.7%”recently sighed Zahir Keenoo, one of the managers of the real estate agency network.
A T3 for executives, a T2 for employees
In detail, with an average net salary of 3,375 euros per month in 2025, against 3,250 euros in 2024, the executives are “One of the rare categories to be able to rent a 3 -piece in almost all major cities”underlines Manda. In Bordeaux, they can access a T3 of 85 square meters (against 76 square meters a year earlier), in Lyon at a T3 of 77 square meters (+11 square meters), and in Toulouse at a T3 of 89 square meters, as a year earlier. “Even in Paris, their rental power remains unique”insists Manda, since they can rent a 35 square meter T2 there, 17 square meters more than an employee.
With 2,055 euros per month on average, the employeesthey can rent a T2 in most metropolises. In 2025, the accessible surface reached 44 square meters in Bordeaux (+6 square meters compared to 2024), 45 square meters in Nantes (+2 square meters) or 51 square meters in Toulouse (−4 square meters). In Paris, it falls at 18 square meters.
