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Montreuil, town of workshops and gardens

Montreuil, Île-de-France

Île-de-France · Seine-Saint-Denis

Apartment finder in Montreuil

The great eastern town turned desirable: line 9 links the town hall to Nation within minutes, former factories have become artists’ studios, and garden houses cover whole quarters. In Montreuil the house is not an exception, it is a market: 222 sales in 2025, a case apart in the inner ring.

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Montreuil at a glance

111,000
residents, the second city of Seine-Saint-Denis
Murs à pêches
a protected site, relic of the orchards that fed Paris
1937
line 9 reaches the town hall of Montreuil
Line 1
the château of Vincennes, to the east, a few minutes on foot
Studios
a town of artists, hundreds of studios in former factories
93
Seine-Saint-Denis, the great eastern gate of Paris

01The market

Where does the property market in Montreuil stand in 2026?

In 2025, 1,233 sales were recorded in Montreuil: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.

The median for apartments has moved -13% since 2021 and +2% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.

Apartments trade at a median of €6,200/m², ahead of houses (€6,200/m²).

At a €6,200/m² median on flats in 2025, Montreuil remains the gateway to eastern Paris: half the price of Saint-Mandé, for ten more minutes of commute. The town layers three stocks: houses and garden pavilions, industrial lofts, period flats to renovate around line 9.

The volume is huge for the ring: 1,011 flat sales and 222 house sales in 2025, a liquid market where the median has slipped by about thirteen percent since 2021. Parisians come for the space the 20th no longer gives, families for the garden, artists for the studio.

The Montreuil house trades at the same median as the flat, €6,200/m², an almost unique case: the price is judged on the garden, the condition and the street. Two vigilance points: the ring-road noise to the south, and period co-ownerships sometimes late on façade works.

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The median price over time

€7,100/m² €7,100/m² €6,700/m² €6,100/m² €6,200/m² 20212022202320242025
Curve of the median price per square metre, year by year
Year Median Sales counted
2021 €7,100/m² 0
2022 €7,100/m² 0
2023 €6,700/m² 0
2024 €6,100/m² 0
2025 €6,200/m² 0

Median for apartments, year by year. A year without enough sales at the threshold is not published: the curve skips the year rather than inventing a point.

Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property. Updated: October 2026. The full survey, as open data

These prices are the registry’s. What your budget really buys in Montreuil, address by address and condition included, is the first thing Home Select tells you at the first conversation.

Describe your project in Montreuil

A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.

02The neighbourhoods

Where to buy in Montreuil, neighbourhood by neighbourhood?

Four pieces of town: Bas Montreuil, Croix de Chavaux, La Boissière and the murs à pêches.

  • 01 Bas Montreuil artists’ studios, former factories, cafés

    The quarter of conversions: industrial yards turned studios, artists’ courtyards open to the public twice a year, cafés and concert venues. The address of the last decade, still moving.

  • 02 Croix de Chavaux market, metro 9, shops

    The square and its metro: the market several times a week, shops spilling onto pavements, period buildings above busy ground floors. The town’s living centre.

  • 03 La Boissière pavilion village, the heights

    Around its namesake street, a village within the town: pavilions, lanes, planted passages. Houses here often sell between neighbours, and line 9 stays ten minutes on foot.

  • 04 The murs à pêches the listed site, the orchards of old

    Hectares of stone walls, relics of the peach-growing that supplied Paris markets: a protected site the town skirts and respects, at the gates of the Saint-Antoine quarter.

Which property for your project?

  1. 01 The lower Montreuil studio

    In the former factories and courtyards of the lower town, artists’ studios and converted industrial volumes: glass roofs, heights, rooftop terraces. The creative heart of Montreuil, to be examined with the history of subdivisions.

  2. 02 The house by the murs à pêches

    Around the listed site, stone pavilions and protected orchard walls: the living heritage of the town. Houses with gardens to renovate with care, in a confidential market where the neighbourhood sets the price.

  3. 03 The Croix de Chavaux one-bedroom

    Around the market and line 9, old buildings and small residences offer genuinely affordable one-bedrooms: a first purchase or a rental investment, fifteen minutes or so from République by direct metro.

Three buying profiles to place your own in Montreuil. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.

Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Montreuil, or between an apartment and a house? Home Select compares them for you, sale by sale and on video pre-viewings, before having you travel.

Describe your project in Montreuil

A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.

03Living and buying

Why live and buy in Montreuil?

Montreuil is lived by bike and on terraces: the Croix de Chavaux market in the morning, concerts in former factories at night, shared gardens behind the murs à pêches, and the Bois de Vincennes to the east on Sundays.

The town grew fast and keeps its marks: large estates to the north, pavilions in the centre, converted industries to the south. Associational life is denser than almost anywhere, from artists’ studios to neighbourhood kitchens.

Three projects, three markets

Investing in Montreuil for the long term

Montreuil is the makers’ market: over 200 houses sold a year, industrial lofts, garden pavilions, and young rental demand following the workshops and production studios. The median, identical for house and flat, tells the place’s singularity. The audit concerns the converted wasteland: use, surveys, neighbourhood.

Long-term investment: the Home Select method

A second home in Montreuil

Montreuil is a first-purchase, project-led market: the garden house bought for the family, the loft kept as a Parisian workspace. Intermittent use takes free forms here, artist’s residence as much as pied-à-terre. Line 9 and the Vincennes proximity make the link: check it at peak hour.

Second home: the Home Select method

Settling in Montreuil year-round

Living in Montreuil is a town of hills and villages: the peach walls of the heights, the Croix-de-Chavaux market, the schools and the shared gardens. Line 9 crosses, métro 1 waits at Vincennes’ gate. Families and makers share the town: the trade-off is a layout still uneven from quarter to quarter.

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04From abroad

How to buy in Montreuil from abroad?

Reaching Montreuil

Montreuil is reached on line 9, from Croix de Chavaux to the town hall, which crosses Paris to République, the grands boulevards and the Opéra; line 1 is caught at Porte de Vincennes, at the bottom of the town, on the Paris side. The Vincennes RER A and the tramway complete the service at the gates. Paris is fifteen minutes away, Roissy and Orly about half an hour from the centre. For a buyer from afar, Montreuil is discovered through its slopes: the lower, working and creative town, and the villa-dotted heights looking over all of Paris.

The international community in Montreuil

Montreuil is the capital of artists: hundreds of studios, film and animation workshops, musicians from across Europe and mixed families who made the town a creative village. The international community is young, notably English- and Spanish-speaking, renting before buying. The murs à pêches, remnants of the old orchards, structure the heritage. Bilingual schools remain rare, the associational life makes up for it. Home Select works here for buyers charmed by houses with gardens, two hundred and twenty-two sales a year, extremely rare this close to Paris.

When to visit, when to buy?

A thousand and eleven flat sales and two hundred and twenty-two house sales a year: a deep market, the most house-heavy of the near ring. Spring, when the gardens prove their point, is the season for houses; the September restart the one for flats. The open-studio weekends in autumn bring back a creative crowd that sometimes turns buyer. The frankest negotiations happen between November and February, on homes to renovate in the lower town.

Property finder in Montreuil

Everything above, Home Select reads for you. Everything below, its property finders do for you.

A property finder in Montreuil works for the buyer, and the buyer alone: searching, viewing, checking and negotiating on your behalf. The six steps of the search, access to properties that never appear in listings, and Home Select’s two offers are detailed below.

05The service

What your property finder’s service in Montreuil includes

A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select in Montreuil.

  1. 01

    What your finder does

    They search on your behalf and for you alone, from the written brief to the checking of every document up to the final deed: the six steps are detailed below. Home Select works for the buyer, never for the seller.

  2. 02

    For which project?

    A main home, a second home, a pied-à-terre or a long-term wealth purchase in Montreuil, whether you are on site or abroad: the search is run remotely, video viewings included, up to the decisive viewing.

  3. 03

    On which terms?

    Home Select runs two offers, with the same full service: the Exclusive offer, an exclusive mandate, 2.5% of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT, at every budget; the Confidential offer, a simple mandate reserved for projects of €2m and above, 1.5% of the net purchase price, dedicated to off-market properties. In both cases, nothing is due until you have bought.

  4. 04

    How long does it take?

    Home Select completes a search in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on average instead of more than 40, and gives a first answer within one working day.

The six steps of your hunt

  1. 01

    The brief

    Everything starts with a thorough conversation: the use of the property, the real budget, the non-negotiable criteria, the calendar. This written framing becomes the roadmap of the hunt, and avoids the months lost viewing beside the point.

    A written brief, and a search launched within the week.

  2. 02

    Sourcing, off-market included

    Home Select covers the whole market: published listings, and above all what is never displayed anywhere. Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.

    Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties from its network every day.

  3. 03

    Pre-visits

    Every lead is verified, visited or analysed for you: commented video, technical sheet, first figures. You only travel for properties that truly match the brief.

    Home Select arranges only 3 viewings on average, instead of 40.

  4. 04

    Negotiation

    The offer is drafted and defended by Home Select, complete file in hand. The negotiation covers the price, but also the conditions, the timelines and the works revealed.

    Home Select negotiates 6% off the asking price on average.

  5. 05

    Securing

    Preliminary contract read line by line, surveys, co-ownership rules, charges, easements: every document is checked before you commit. Local points of vigilance, from the coast to the mountains, are in Home Select’s checklists.

    Every document checked before you commit.

  6. 06

    The keys

    Home Select stays by your side through to the signing before the notaire, and after: contractors, formalities, moving. Its work ends when you are settled in, not when the deed is signed.

    Home Select takes a search from the brief to the authentic deed in 45 days on average.

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Searching alone or with a property finder in Montreuil?

Searching alone or with a property finder in Montreuil?
Searching alone With Home Select
Viewings 40+ viewings 3 viewings on average
Search duration 6 months 45 days on average
Your time invested 150 hours 15 hours

Plus a negotiation led for you: Home Select secures 6% off the asking price on average.

What negotiation weighs

On a €800,000 purchase

€48,000
secured on average off the asking price (6% of €800,000)
€20,000
in fees at most, Exclusive offer (2.5% of €800,000), paid on completion
45 days
of search on average, before completion

Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.

Buying in Montreuil: three finder’s reflexes

  1. 01 Measure the garden before the house

    At the same price per square metre as a flat, the house is judged on its plot: orientation, access, easements and buildability change everything, and the technical file is never enough.

  2. 02 Listen to the town before offering

    The ring road to the south, the busy central streets, the venues: come back on a weeknight and on a Saturday, windows open, before committing to anything.

  3. 03 Target already-renovated façades

    Period stock to renovate abounds, but a voted façade works push the bill up: a renovated building with controlled charges often beats a low price followed by a levy.

Describe your project in Montreuil

A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.

06Off-market properties

How do you reach off-market properties in Montreuil?

A share of the finest sales in Montreuil completes without ever being listed. Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before publication, and also approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.

These properties are not online: they are shown against a written brief, never a listing. Yours begins with a conversation.

Describe your project in Montreuil

Understand Home Select’s off-market access

07Fees

Two offers, paid on success

2.5% of the net purchase price
Exclusive offer The full service, at every budget. Minimum €10,000 incl. VAT.
1.5% of the net purchase price
Confidential offer The same service, dedicated to off-market properties. Reserved for projects of €2m and above.

Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.

Which offer fits your project?

Property finder in Montreuil: which offer for your project?

Up to €2m
The Exclusive offer: the full service, whatever the budget.
From €2m
The Exclusive offer, or the Confidential offer: a simple mandate dedicated to off-market properties, with the same full service. The choice is made at the first conversation, once the project is understood.
In both cases
The fees are settled at the notary, on the final deed. Nothing is asked for beforehand: no application fee, no retainer.

08Client reviews

They entrusted their search to Home Select

  • Nous à été très très satisfaits des services de Sophie. Elle a été efficace, disponible, et très fine pour sentir précisément nos besoins et envies. Grâce à elle, nous avons réalisé un achat qui nous va, et nous avons trouvé en 3 mois alors que nous cherchions depuis 1 an et demi. Un très très grand merci et nous vous la recommandons chaleureusement !

    Mélanie B. Trouvé en 3 mois après 18 mois seuls

  • Basé en province, l’accompagnement pour ma recherche d’un appartement a été à la hauteur de mes attentes : écoute, réactivité, disponibilité et tout cela sans pression. Merci Catherine..

    François D. Acheteur basé en province

  • Super expérience avec Home Select. Le professionnalisme, la disponibilité et l’écoute client de Gwenaelle nous ont permis de trouver un appartement en 2 mois. Son accompagnement et ses conseils ont été clés et parfaitement adaptés pour une recherche à l’international depuis Chicago. Nous recommandons vivement ses services.

    Stéphanie et Nicolas P. Recherche depuis l’étranger

Google reviews, gathered through fifteen years of searches. 4.8/5 on Google · 1,200+ buyers guided. Client reviews

09Your project

Property finder in Montreuil: your questions

The questions common to every city (purchase costs, remote search, choosing your finder) are gathered on one page: all the frequently asked questions.

Why use a property finder in Montreuil?

Because the local market has its own rules. 222 house sales in 2025: the leading garden-house market of the inner ring. A property finder works for you alone, on the buyer’s side: daily monitoring, access to off-market sales, strict shortlisting and negotiation. Since 2011, Home Select has run more than 1,200 searches with this method, rated 4.8/5 on Google.

What are property prices in Montreuil in 2026?

Based on actual recorded sales (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales), the median price in Montreuil stands at €6,200/m² for an apartment and €6,200/m² for a house. These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.

What budget to buy in Montreuil?

The 2025 median stands at €6,200/m²: a 40 sqm one-bedroom trades around €250,000, a 60 sqm two-bedroom around €370,000. At this level, the town house with garden becomes a serious alternative, at the same price per square metre.

Why do houses trade at flat prices?

Because supply follows: 222 houses sold in 2025, and the flow prevents a pavilion premium. A fifty-square-metre garden beats an extra floor: the trade-off is made at the viewing, plot by plot.

Montreuil or Bagnolet?

Bagnolet shows €5,200/m², Montreuil €6,200/m²: a thousand euros apart for line 9, a fuller centre and the murs à pêches. The choice is made station by station, street by street.

Is the property market in Montreuil active?

In 2025, 1,233 sales were recorded in Montreuil: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments has moved -13% since 2021 and +2% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.

How long does it take to buy in Montreuil with a property finder?

Home Select completes its searches in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40 and about fifteen hours of your time. In Montreuil, the exact calendar depends on how rare the target property is: it is framed at the brief, then held.

How do you reach off-market properties in Montreuil?

Through the network and direct approach: Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In Montreuil, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Bas Montreuil, then Croix de Chavaux. That is often where the unfindable property is.

Montreuil or the 20th arrondissement?

The 20th sells Parisian polish, Montreuil space and gardens: at equal budget, the Montreuil house has no equivalent inside Paris. The trade-off is paid in commute time, ten more minutes to Nation or République.

Can you still find a loft in Montreuil?

Yes: former industrial yards still feed the market, but volumes are thinning and the charges of factory-born co-ownerships must be checked lot by lot. The right loft often trades off-market, through networks.

Which quarters suit a family?

La Boissière and the central pavilion quarters offer gardens and village-scale schools; the south needs an acoustic check street by street. We map both against the school catchments.

Is line 9 enough for daily life?

It runs east to west through Mairie, Croix de Chavaux and Robespierre towards Nation and République, and line 1 can be joined on foot at the château of Vincennes: two lines, two uses, the rest runs on buses.

What are your fees in Montreuil?

Home Select, a property finder in Montreuil, charges 2.5% of the net purchase price (minimum €10,000 incl. VAT) on the Exclusive offer, or 1.5% on the Confidential offer for projects of €2m and above. Home Select is paid on success only: nothing is due until you have bought.

What happens next

  1. A property finder reads your request and answers within one working day.
  2. A first confidential conversation: how you will use the property, the real budget, the non-negotiable criteria, the timing.
  3. A written brief, and a search started within the week. Nothing is due until you have bought.

Your project in Montreuil

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Île-de-France

Around Montreuil

One maison, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Montreuil. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.

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