Real estate: these 7 large cities where you can buy more square meters than 5 months ago

While the prices of old housing are starting to go up in many cities and the drop in credit rates slows down, here are seven metropolises where you can buy larger than in January.

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You live Clermont-Ferrand and look for a larger apartment, your 16-month-old baby is now running everywhere. Good news, the Puy-de-Dôme prefecture is one of the seven major cities where Real estate purchasing power increases The plus since the start of the year! A household of two adults can now acquire an apartment of 82 square meters in Clermont, that is Three more square meters than in JanuaryCalculate the Seloger real estate advertisement portal. A calculation based on median income in the city, determined by INSEE, a credit monthly payment representing 33% of income, an average rate of 3.35%, noted by the broker borrowed for loans over 20 years, and a square price of 2,139 euros on June 1.

The other six metropolises where purchasing power has increased by three square meters since January are Nîmes, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Calais, Colmar and Amiens. It must be said that, like Clermont-Ferrand, they saw The prices of old apartments continue to decrease Since the beginning of the year, -2.4% for Roubaix at -3.8% for Colmar, after already two years of a fall caused by the outbreak of credit rates in 2022 and 2023. Rates that fell from a 4% peak in the fall of 2023 to just over 3% in June, which contributes to the revival of purchasing power of the ownership of ownership. In total, out of the 51 main cities in France, 21 see the property purchasing power to improve since January 1.

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Falling property purchasing power in 17 cities

However, it stagnates in 13 cities and Decreases even in 17 others. Starting with Mulhouse, where a couple can no longer buy “only a” apartment of 131 square meters today, five square meters less than in January. In Le Mans, forgotten the 90 square meters to which it was possible to dream at the very beginning of the year! A household must now be satisfied with 86 square meters. In Rouen, it is on three square meters that must now be made a cross. Normal, because The prices of old apartments have already started up In these three cities, thanks to the timid resumption of real estate transactions. They climbed 4.3% in Mulhouse since the start of the year, almost 5% in Rouen and 5.7% in Le Mans!

A trend that is generalized, the prices of old housing increasing an average of 0.2% in the 51 largest cities in France since January. At the same time, the drop in credit rates, which started over a year ago, slows down, rates stabilizing for two months around 3%. This is not very good omen for the property purchasing power.