Paris 4e, Île-de-France
Île-de-France · Paris
Two islands and a Marais: the 4th brings together the reopened cathedral, Place des Vosges and a maze of private mansions the listing saved from demolition. Few arrondissements offer so much scenery for so little housing, 28,324 residents, and the 607 sales of 2025 often trade privately.
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Paris 4e at a glance
01The market
In 2025, 607 sales were recorded in Paris 4th: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for apartments has moved -3% since 2021 and +1.2% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.
Sales range from €8,900/m² to €19,600/m²: address and condition make the price.
The median stands at €13,000/m², between a first decile at €8,900/m² and a ninth at €19,600/m²: a view over the roofs of the île Saint-Louis or the arcades of Place des Vosges doubles the bill of a courtyard flat. The stock, 66% predating 1919, does not expand: it is handed down.
607 sales in 2025 and an average time to sale of 54 days: the 4th sells more slowly than its neighbours because the homes are atypical. Duplexes under the roof, old subdivisions, rooms in private mansions: every sale needs a prepared buyer, and the discount is negotiable.
Vigilance concerns tourist saturation, strictly regulated short-term rental and busy pedestrian streets, damp in the period fabric, and co-ownerships sometimes a century old with hard-to-read accounts. Here a serious survey precedes any offer.
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| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €13,400/m² | 0 |
| 2022 | €13,400/m² | 0 |
| 2023 | €13,400/m² | 0 |
| 2024 | €12,800/m² | 0 |
| 2025 | €13,000/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 Paris 4th, address by address and condition included, is the first thing Home Select tells you at the first conversation.
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02The neighbourhoods
Two islands and a Marais: the 4th concentrates the postcards and hides, behind the carriage gates, a tiny residential stock.
Around the reopened cathedral and the quays, very little housing, almost all expensive when it appears: living on the island is a privilege, crowds included.
The northern Marais, between the Centre Pompidou and the Hôtel de Ville: narrow streets, private mansions, boutiques. Buildings run deep, courtyards abound, surfaces are carved up.
Behind the town hall, the most classical 4th: stone, staircases, through flats. The arrondissement’s most stable quarter, where sales often happen between neighbours.
From Place des Vosges to the village Saint-Paul, galleries, antique dealers and arcaded façades: the romantic heart of the Marais, loved by international buyers, sells rarely and dearly.
Quai des Orfèvres or boulevard du Palais, a few flats look over the Seine and its bridges: small-paned windows, beams, unexpected calm above the tourist flow. A rare property, to be weighed against the state of the roof and the charges of a listed building.
Under the arcades of the oldest square in Paris, the Arsenal quarter keeps duplexes with exposed beams and views over the linden trees. For a literary pied-à-terre, with an often small co-ownership and rules to be read line by line before the offer.
On the Beaubourg and rue de Rivoli side, top floors offer attic studios with terraces above the Centre Pompidou. Small areas, steep stairs, but a light and a panorama that explain some of the highest prices per square metre in the city.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Paris 4th. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Paris 4th, 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.
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03Living and buying
On Sundays the Marais opens while all Paris shuts: shops, tea rooms, galleries. Place des Vosges serves as a garden, the quays as a promenade, and the reopened cathedral has given the island its neighbourhood life back.
Rue des Rosiers and its traditions, the BHV for DIY, the children’s market on Wednesdays: the 4th draws more visitors than it houses, and residents quickly learn the quiet streets behind the axes.
Three projects, three markets
The 4th is a summit of the Paris market: the Île Saint-Louis, the place des Vosges, private mansions, an offer handed down as much as it is sold. Demand, French and international, is permanent, and the fine homes circulate before the listings. The technical survey is decisive: old fabric, roof timbers, small co-ownerships. Home Select briefs on the building before the viewing.
An address on the Île Saint-Louis or the place des Vosges is the pied-à-terre you keep for life: a few rooms under the roof, the Seine at the end of the street, an easy lock-up. Parking and the lift, often absent, structure the value. Short-stay demand is lively: intermittent use combines well.
Living in the 4th means inhabiting historic Paris: Notre-Dame reopened, the Centre Pompidou, the quais on foot, and real neighbourhood life behind the facades. Families are fewer, large surfaces rare. The trade-off is between exceptional stone and the comfort of a newer arrondissement, taken with full knowledge.
04From abroad
Between the two banks, the 4th covers the Île de la Cité and the heart of the Marais: lines 1, 4, 7 and 11 cross it, from Hôtel de Ville to Sully-Morland, and Châtelet touches the western corner with its RER A, B and D. Line 4 links directly to the Gare du Nord and Gare Montparnasse, line 1 runs from Bastille to the Champs-Élysées, and Roissy stays about half an hour from the centre. This is the most central of all arrondissements: from any Paris station, a quarter of an hour is enough to set a suitcase down by quai de l’Hôtel de Ville.
Few year-round residents, about 28,000, but a world-famous address: around Notre-Dame and Place des Vosges, the international community is made of second-home buyers, diplomats at the end of their careers, Franco-foreign couples charmed by historic stone. Private concierge services, many of them, manage the absences; bilingual schools sit in the neighbouring arrondissements. Foreign demand is constant, and quality homes trade between discerning buyers whom Home Select represents.
Only six hundred and seven sales a year: supply is scarce and prices stretch from 8,900 to 19,600 euros per square metre. In spring and September the finest homes go within days, often without public listing. In summer the crowds complicate daytime viewings: early slots remain the most workable. The calmer winter opens serious discussions on homes to refresh on the Marais side.
Property finder in Paris 4th
Everything above, Home Select reads for you. Everything below, its property finders do for you.
A property finder in Paris 4th 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
A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select in Paris 4th.
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.
A main home, a second home, a pied-à-terre or a long-term wealth purchase in Paris 4th, whether you are on site or abroad: the search is run remotely, video viewings included, up to the decisive viewing.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 | 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
Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
In the Marais a street-facing flat loses the exchange: foot traffic, noise, filtered light. The courtyard or inner garden reverses the hierarchy, sometimes at the same price.
Between the regulation of tourist lets and watchful co-ownerships, short lets in the 4th are a regulatory obstacle course: plan before buying.
Accounts, voted heavy works, lifts impossible to install: charm has a collective cost, to be checked in the minutes of the last three general meetings.
A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.
06Off-market properties
A share of the finest sales in Paris 4th 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.
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08Client reviews
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Mélanie B. Trouvé en 3 mois après 18 mois seuls
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09Your project
The questions common to every city (purchase costs, remote search, choosing your finder) are gathered on one page: all the frequently asked questions.
Because the local market has its own rules. Place des Vosges and its arcades: a seventeenth-century ensemble with no equivalent in Paris. 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.
Based on actual recorded sales (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales), the median price in Paris 4th stands at €13,000/m² for an apartment. These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
The median stands at €13,000/m² on 2025 sales: a 40 sqm one-bedroom trades around €520,000, and half of the sales fall between €8,900 and €19,600/m² depending on the building and the view.
The island plays absolute scenery, with the constraints of foot traffic and scarce surfaces; the Marais offers more choice, more neighbourhood life and more amenities. The medians meet, the uses do not: it is a lifestyle choice before a price choice.
In 2025, 607 sales were recorded in Paris 4th: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments has moved -3% since 2021 and +1.2% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.
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 Paris 4e, the exact calendar depends on how rare the target property is: it is framed at the brief, then held.
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 Paris 4e, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Notre-Dame, then Saint-Merri. That is often where the unfindable property is.
On the main streets, yes: rue de Rivoli, the quays and Place des Vosges beat to the rhythm of sightseeing. But the residential streets, rue du Trésor or rue de Jarente, regain a village calm in the evening. The quarter belongs to those who know its folds.
Place des Vosges, symmetry and arcades, plays the monument with the constraints of the listing; Saint-Paul, more patched together, mixes workshops, courtyards and boutiques. Two ways of living in the same Marais.
No, and it even penalises: narrow streets, scarce parking, weekend crowds. Four metro lines and the riverside buses suffice, cycling does the rest.
On a stock 66% predating 1919: roof timbers, damp, electrics and soundproofing, all under heritage constraint. We cost everything before the offer.
Home Select, a property finder in Paris 4th, 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.
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