If you have bought an apartment In Paris between December 2023 and May 2025, you had a hollow nose. During this period, the prices of old housing stagnated about 9,500 euros per square meteralmost 15% below their peak of 11,000 euros reached in the summer of 2020. A dive caused by the fall in transactions following the quadrupling of mortgage rate Between 2022 and 2024. But it was enough for rates to settle down, going from more than 4% at the end of 2023 to just over 3% for a few months, so that purchases are leaving, and the prices too.
At 9,530 euros currently, the average price per square meter in the capital has increased by 1% in the space of one year, under the effect of a 9% rebound in sales over the period from March to May, according to figures published by the notaries of Grand Paris this Thursday, July 31. And, on the basis of sales promises signed between March and May, they anticipate A price per square meter at 9,750 euros in Paris in Septemberan increase of 2.5% over 12 months. “At the end of March, prices were still under the symbolic bar of the 10,000 euros per square meter in 11 arrondissements. There are only 10 in this case today ”also observes the network ofreal estate agencies Laforêt. Another proof that the Parisian market becomes more favorable to sellers, the negotiation margin Price dropped 1.67 points between the first half of 2024 and the first half of 2025, to 2.9%.
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Apartments at more than 5,000 euros in small crown
Paris is not an isolated case in Ile-de-France. In a small crown (Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis), the notaries count on increases in the prices of ancient apartments similar to those of the capital for September, that is +2.7%, which would bring them back Above the 5,000 euros mark. In large crown (Yvelines, Essonne, Val d’Oise, Seine-et-Marne), notaries provide even higher increases, 4.1% on average, but it is true that prices are lower than in Paris and in the suburbs, at 3,180 euros currently.
As in the capital, these price increases scheduled for September testify to a clear acceleration in a small crown, where the prices of the old apartments increased by only 0.3% from March to May, over a year. In large crown, it is even a Trend reversalsince the prices were still – slightly – downward oriented between March and May (-0.1%). These upcoming price increases, the notaries of Greater Paris put them on the account of “The anticipation (by sellers) of a now more sustained demand”.
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Anticipation of the increase in notary fees
In fact, the number of sales rebounded 15% in Ile-de-France from March to May, with 29,910 goods that changed hands. A lower volume of “Only 6% in terms of two years ago”in full rise in credit rates, underline the notaries. This rebound is not only the drop in rates but also to anticipation, by buyers, of the rise in so -called notary feesintervened on April 1 in five Ile -de -France departments. Including Paris, which has a departmental competence.
