House prices in many French cities showed significant fluctuations in the second quarter of 2025 with annual changes ranging from increases of up to 18% to declines of as much as 7%, according to new data from notaires.
Prices stabilised in many larger cities but Lyon showed a significant slump of more than -7% and a fall of -2% is also registered in several other locations.
Many smaller and mid-sized locations saw larger changes, including a +18% increase in the south of Corsica.
The information comes from the central body of the Notaires de France and is the most comprehensive available as it covers all property sales.
This article focuses on the sale prices of non-new build houses (those at least five years old which have had a previous owner).
Due to the time it takes to compile the data the rollout is delayed, with the latest information covering the period up to June 30, 2025 compared with the same time period in the previous year.
However, the notaires also use more recent preliminary data to predict current trends.
This includes overall sales figures between August 2024 and August 2025 of 916,000 homes.
This is considerably higher than averages between August 2006 - 2017, but still lower than the years before the Covid-19 pandemic.
The percentages below show the change in house price of a city and its suburbs between April-June 2024 and April-June 2025. Prices are a median of all sales.
Ad
Large increases in Corsica, Caen and Grenoble
As seen previously Corse-du-Sud is an anomaly and saw a large +18.3% increase in house prices.
This comes after previous rises as high as +25%, even during the height of the post-Covid property slump.
The north of the island saw the second highest increase, at +8.5%.
Outside of this, cities across several other regions performed well:
Caen (Calvados): +8.2%
Grenoble (Isère): +7.7%
Reims (Marne): +7.4%
Saint-Etienne (Loire): +5.7%
Châteauroux (Indre): +4.6%
However several cities continued to record falling prices.
While there is no clear geographic pattern, larger cities were among the biggest fallers, including Lyon (Rhône) -7.5% and Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) -5.1%.
Marseille/Aix-en-Provence (Bouches du Rhône): €380,300
Lyon (Rhône): €370,500
Note that Paris is included in the wider Île-de-France area (due to the low number of ‘houses’ as opposed to flats in the city), and other cities that are predominantly filled with flats, such as Nice, are not included in this data-set.
Data from the notaires shows that in the same period, flat prices in Paris increased by +0.2%, and in the inner suburbs +0.3%.
The list of lower priced locations has also remained largely unchanged:
