The objective of this interministerial State policy, with the assistance of the Banque des Territoires (Caisse des dépôts Group), Action Logement and Anah, is to bring residents, businesses, services and activities back to city, to fight against urban sprawl and to work towards a more natural and attractive city setting. For this, it prioritizes in particular the renovation of old housing, sustainable construction, the requalification of public space, nature in the city and active mobility.
As part of its public service mission, since 2018 the High Council of Notaries has provided the National Directorate of the ACV program with a series of relevant and reliable real estate indicators: number of transactions, median selling price per m² and evolution of the Energy performance diagnosis (EPD) of goods sold.
After the first two barometers, it is now possible to analyze in more detail the real estate trends at work since the launch of the national Action Cœur de Ville program in the beneficiary cities and their agglomerations and to assess the dynamics of their market. real estate, witness to their attractiveness.
The complete results for the year 2021 will be detailed in the 3rd Barometer which will be presented on June 21 at a press conference.
To remember :
- A trend between 2018 and 2021 revealing the new attractiveness of ACV cities, with a 17% increase in sales and 20% in all ACV agglomerations.
- A post-Covid recovery that is confirmed, with a 12% increase in sales volume in 2021 compared to 2020, i.e. 14 additional transfers in the ACV cities studied.
- All regions are affected by this increase in sales volumes in the cities benefiting from the program between 2020 and 2021
- This increase in sales volume is coupled with an increase in real estate prices in 137 cities (out of 200 studied) over the period 2018-2021. In 2021, the median price per m2 is €1 for apartments and €557 for houses.
- A median price per m² which is still much more affordable than that of large cities, for properties with a larger surface area.
A dynamic real estate market in 2021 in the cities of the national Action Cœur de Ville program
While it has experienced positive and constant development since 2018 in line with the aspirations of our fellow citizens, the attractiveness of medium-sized ACV cities was confirmed in 2021 with a 20% increase in sales in Action Coeur de Ville agglomerations, compared to 14,5 .17% nationally over the same period. In the central cities benefiting from the program, sales increased by 2018% between 2021 and XNUMX.
It is above all a user market that offers households the possibility of accessing quality goods, larger in size and at more affordable prices than in the big cities. The dynamism of the real estate market in these cities therefore confirms an increasingly sustained desire to live, work and evolve in cities on a human scale offering a pleasant living environment and an offer of accessible housing.
Central cities that carry the real estate market in their agglomerations
Sales volumes have increased since 2018: +52 sales (actual old and new volumes combined) between 540 and 2018 in Action Cœur de Ville conurbations and +2021 between 36 and 130. By way of comparison, before the pandemic, between In 2020 and 2021, there were +2018 sales in these Action Cœur de Ville agglomerations.
Table of changes in sales volume
The real estate market in medium-sized cities remains dynamic, in particular thanks to the ACV central cities which continue to attract and represent more than 50% of sales volumes in 2021 in these agglomerations. In these central cities, the increase was thus +14 sales between 560 and 2020, compared with +2021 sales between 11 and 140, before the health crisis.
More specifically, outside Ile-de-France:
- 84 Action Cœur de Ville towns out of the 200 analyzed (i.e. 42%) are more dynamic than the rest of their EPCIs.
- Among these 84 towns, for 11% of the towns in the program, it is even the central towns that carry the local market in the face of a shrinking periphery.
- Conversely, for 24 of the towns in the program (88 towns), the outskirts remain more dynamic than the central town, which maintains or sees its market decline.
- Finally, 28 cities (14%) have a similar development with the rest of the territory of their EPCI.
A regular increase in median prices per m² continues, a sign of the vitality of the market and the real attractiveness of medium-sized towns
Since 2018, the median price per m² for apartments has increased steadily in ACV cities, rising from €1/m² in 353 to €2018/m² in 1, i.e. an increase of 557% and more particularly of 2021 % between 15 and 7,5, similar to that observed at the national level.
Between 2020 and 2021, there is both an increase in real estate prices and an increase in the volume of sales in 109 cities of the program. Over the period 2018-2021, 137 cities out of the 200 studied are experiencing this movement, proof of a renewed dynamism of the local real estate market.
While the President of the Republic announced last September the extension of the Action Coeur de Ville program over the period 2023-2026, Rollon MOUCHEL-BLAISOT, director of the national ACV program, affirms: “The results of this third Barometer reflect the first impacts of the national Action Coeur de Ville program which aims to support the sustainable development of medium-sized towns exercising an irreplaceable role of centrality, and this by investing as a priority in the revitalization of town centres”. There is undeniably a new residential and economic attractiveness of “medium-sized” cities which are increasingly recognized for what they offer: more spacious and accessible housing, a pleasant living environment and essential amenities nearby. The requalification of city centers is therefore more than ever a burning obligation to pursue in order to meet the growing aspirations of our fellow citizens to live in a city on a human scale”.
David AMBROSIANO, president of the CSN declares: "The partnership with the ANCT is based on the quality of the indicators of the notarial real estate databases and their reliability and is a natural part of the public service mission of the notariat and the objectives of the 1st Convention of objectives that the CSN has signed with the State on October 8, 2020. At the national level, 2021 was an "abnormal" year for real estate with post-lockdown catch-up in the first months and an anticipation effect for 2022. The French have, in their globally, accelerated the realization of their projects. This 3rd Barometer of Real Estate in Medium-Sized Towns of the Action Coeur de Ville program makes it possible to follow the evolution of the market in the 234 participating municipalities and to measure their attractiveness. »