The knowledge of rents represents a major challenge in the conduct of national and local housing policies. This is why the Ministry of Housing has put online this Monday, December 26 a series of interactive maps, updated with official data, in order to allow professionals in the sector but also tenants to have a standardized estimate of rental prices in each municipality in France. It allows you to know the price per square meter, charges included, throughout the territory, for houses and apartments in the private rental stock. There are four cards depending on the type of property: one for typical apartments, one for 1-2 room apartments in the private rental stockone for apartments with 3 rooms or more, and one for typical houses.
Rent prices in France: the result of a partnership with Leboncoin and SeLoger
The Directorate General for Planning, Housing and Nature (DGALN) launched the “rent map” project in 2018 by joining forces with an economics research team from Agrosup Dijon and the Institut national agricultural research (INRAE), SeLoger and Leboncoin. The project was taken over in 2020 by the National Agency for Information on Housing (ANIL), which therefore published a new version of the map. These partnerships have made it possible to compile an impressive database with more than 7 million rental advertisements based on a methodology for estimating indicators, at municipal level, of rent (including charges) per square meter for apartments and houses. For municipalities that have no rented accommodation, the rent indicator is estimated on neighboring municipalities with similar characteristics.
“Until now, no rent indicator covered the entire national territory with a transparent calculation methodology “, explains the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion. “For the Ministry in charge of the City and Housing, it makes it possible to evaluate the devices and to design tools better adapted to the realities of the territories.” Anyone can use these cards: State services, local authorities, real estate professionals, as well as private landlords and tenants. To From 2022, they will be updated and published every year by ANIL.
According to the data collected, the monthly rent in France is on average 8.20 euros per square meter for a house, compared to 9.38 euros for an apartment. Unsurprisingly, it is in the Paris region that the rent per square meter is the most expensive. The rent per m2 of a house reaches a maximum of 28.35 euros per month in the 16th arrondissement of Paris as well as in six municipalities in the Hauts-de-Seine department (92): Garches, Vaucresson, Marnes-la-Coquette , Ville-d’Avray, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Boulogne-Billancourt. But it is in the 4th arrondissement of the capital that rents peak, with an average of 33.07 euros for standard apartments. It is in the town of Darney, in the Vosges (88), that rents are the lowest, whether for houses or apartments, with prices of 5.20 and 5.75 euros per square meter. . Haute-Marne (52) is also one of the departments with the cheapest rents.
