Real estate: prices go upwards in Paris and Ile-de-France, a first for 4 years!

Purchase prices further fell by 2% over a year in Ile-de-France in January 2025, but the trend will be reversed in the coming months, according to the notaries of Grand Paris. In the capital, an increase of 2.1% is to be expected by May, slightly higher than that expected in the Paris region.

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Finally, good news for the Ile -de -France owners who wish to sell their accommodation … and a worse for candidates for purchase: “Price pressure is relaxing”announce the notaries of Grand Paris in a press release released this Thursday, March 27. And it was time since, close to the 11,000 euros per square meter in the summer of 2020, the prices of the apartments in Paris were, real estate crisis obliges, crushed to 9,480 euros on average in January 2025after a new decline of 1.9% over a year. Identical trajectory for the prices of collective housing in Ile-de-France, which were crumbling by 2% in 2024, at 6,090 euros per square meter. And even worse for individual houses, sold on average 325,900 euros in the Paris region in January 2025 (-3.3% compared to January 2024).

But this downward trend should therefore be of ancient history in May 2025, according to the projections of the notaries of Greater Paris. “In the coming months and according to our pre-contractthe trend would be reversed with an almost generalization of an upward tendency of prices in one year ”they anticipate. The square meter in the capital should for example appear, always on average, to 9,630 euros in May 2025increased by 2.1% compared to May 2024. “It has been 4 years that we had not experienced an annual price increase in Paris”notice the notaries.

A price increase of 3.5% for houses in Yvelines

The ascent will affect all of Ile-de-France, with the signing prices recorded by 1.6% for apartments, to 6,180 euros per square meterand 1.8% for old houses, at 333,100 euros. And this, even though sales volumes remain taped to the floor, the transactions having for example fell 7% in Paris between November 2024 and January 2025 and 4% over the same period for houses in Ile-de-France. “These developments, which intervene at the very moment when sales volumes only stabilize, show once again the tensions weighing on housing in Ile-de-France”explain the notaries of Grand Paris.

The only exception to sales erosion, the large crown – a very tense market where the volume of house transactions increased by 2% over three months in January 2025 – and which should take full advantage of the pricing. Starting with the Department of Yvelines (78), where the projections of the notaries of Grand Paris for May 2025 show a Average sale price of 409,300 euros3.5% more than a year earlier. On the apartments side, it is in Essonne (91) that the recovery will be the most spectacular, with a price per square meter at 2,840 euros (+2.7% over a year).