Real estate: these cities where you can still become a owner for less than 150,000 euros

Although half of the French spend more than 200,000 euros to buy a main residence, there are many very correct accommodation between 60,000 and 150,000 euros, provides the Optimhome real estate network.

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More than 200,000 euros. It is the budget paid by 52% of the buyers of a main residence In the past three years, according to the results of a survey published on April 10 by Harris Interactive on behalf of the network of Optimhome real estate advisers. But that average budget takes into account a “”Surrepresentation of Ile-de-France and CSP+ (“superior” socio -professional categories) “which weigh respectively 79% and 66% in this majority of French people who bought their main residence more than 200,000 euros, nuance Olivier Colcombet, president of Optimhome.

In fact, no less than 48% of respondents spent less than 200,000 euros to acquire their accommodation. 13% of them have even become owners for less than 100,000 eurosand 10% for a budget less than 150,000 euros. “Goods worth between 60,000 and 150,000 euros, there are many in France. And these are not nanars but very correct accommodation ”assures Olivier Colcombet. The leader insists on “The regionalization of real estate price in the country, where they are anything but homogeneous ”.

Cheaper cities but not disaster victims

This is evidenced by the 2025 ranking of the most expensive cities and the most affordable municipalities, produced by the site of real estate ads. While The average price per square meter exceeds 9,000 euros in Paris And tangent the 4,000 euros in Lyon and Bordeaux, it drops to 1,336 euros in Saint-Etienne (Loire). For 150,000 euros, you can offer yourself 112 square meters in the least expensive metropolis in France. In Perpignan and Limoges too, the average price per square meter is less than 2,000 euros.

Certainly, “For these prices, we get out of the 12 largest metropolises“Concends Olivier Colcombet. “The cheapest cities do not have the same attractiveness as Paris or Bordeaux, they do not have the same services, the same demography or the same job market”echoes Pap. But “Cheaper does not mean to be disaster!”protests the advertising site. Heritage, opening on the sea, research centers, industries … This is what these cities can offer to French people wishing to live in an urban environment but at affordable prices “.

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About 65 m2 for 150,000 euros in Brest and Clermont-Ferrand

HAS Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), where the average price per square meter does not exceed 2,277 euros, which allows you to acquire 65 square meters for 150,000 euros, real estate buyers can thus count on an industrial basis which remains a major job vector, in particular thanks to the presence of the Michelin tire manufacturer. Ditto Brestwith its world -renowned marine world research center, and where an average price per square meter of 2,216 euros allows you to afford 67 square meters for 150,000 euros.