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South of France property market: what the 2025 DVF data shows
The full 2025 DVF release is in. Volume is back across all six departments, prices are calmer than the headlines suggest, and the regional picture matters more than the national one.
Read →Alpes-Maritimes: two markets behind one name
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat trades at 34,444/m2 while Le Mas trades at 945. The department median is meaningless. Here is what the commune-level data actually tells you.
Read →The Var: where Saint-Tropez meets the quiet interior
The Var runs from 26,373/m2 in Saint-Tropez to 1,339 in Trigance. The inland villages that buyers keep overlooking, and the coastal premiums they keep paying.
Read →Bouches-du-Rhone: Marseille, Aix, and the Cassis outlier
A flat year for the department at 4,112/m2, but Cassis at 10,724 and Eygalieres at 7,926 tell a different story. Where the value is and where it is not.
Read →Herault: Montpellier's gravity and the inland opportunity
The coast and the Montpellier periphery drive volume, but the real story is inland Herault where stone villages trade under 1,000/m2. The widest range in the south.
Read →Vaucluse: the Luberon is back
Gordes at 6,512/m2, Goult at 6,149, and the department posting the strongest year-on-year recovery in the south at +3.2%. What is driving it and where the quieter value sits.
Read →The Gard: Pays d'Uzes holds while everything else stays flat
The most stable market in the south. Median at 2,577/m2, exactly flat year on year. But inside that flatness, the Pays d'Uzes cluster trades 40 to 60% above the department median.
Read →Best places to buy in the South of France in 2026
Eight specific regions, each with a different price-to-lifestyle trade-off. Not a ranking. A map of where to look depending on what you want.
Read →Why we built Adresse.ai
We bought French property and hit the same wall every buyer hits. The data exists. The product did not. So we built it.
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