Lyon, Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes · Rhône
France’s second heritage market, Lyon lines up very different micro-markets: the noble floors of Ainay and the Presqu’île, the avenues of the 6th around the Parc de la Tête d’Or, the reinvented canuts of La Croix-Rousse and the properties of the western suburbs. Fine addresses first circulate through professional word of mouth.
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The essentials
Home Select, a property finder in Lyon founded in 2011, searches for apartments and houses exclusively on behalf of the buyer. Its hunters give access to off-market properties, from the noble floors of Ainay on the Presqu’île to the avenues around the Parc de la Tête d’Or, with fees 100% on success.
Lyon at a glance
On the ground
In 2025, 7,165 sales were recorded in Lyon: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for apartments is down -12% since 2021 and -1% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.
Sales range from €2,800/m² to €6,000/m²: address and condition make the price.
Lyon is a sum of micro-markets more than a city: the noble floors of Ainay compare neither with the canut floors of La Croix-Rousse nor with the houses of western Lyon. Each has its own rules of value, its streets to avoid and its addresses that go within days.
On fine bourgeois surfaces, the market moves fast: a well-distributed through apartment in the 6th, free of heavy works, finds a buyer before the first open viewing. Preparation of the file and daily monitoring make the difference between proposing and enduring.
Western Lyon, from Sainte-Foy to Tassin and the Monts d’Or, works by network: a significant share of the houses sells without publicity, between neighbours, notaires and professionals. And Lyon’s old buildings, traboules and co-ownership included, demand a technical eye that passing buyers often lack.
| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €5,000/m² | 8,444 |
| 2022 | €5,100/m² | 8,293 |
| 2023 | €4,800/m² | 6,611 |
| 2024 | €4,500/m² | 6,031 |
| 2025 | €4,400/m² | 6,968 |
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.
| Date | Type | Street | Area | Price | Price per sqm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Montée Saint Barthelemy | 61 m² | €217,000 | €3,600/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Quai Des Etroits | 121 m² | €950,000 | €7,900/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Rue Juiverie | 68 m² | €287,000 | €4,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Rue Gilibert | 18 m² | €59,000 | €3,300/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Cours Bayard | 31 m² | €194,000 | €6,300/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Grande Rue De La Guillotiere | 20 m² | €64,000 | €3,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Allée Du Parc | 51 m² | €240,000 | €4,700/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Rue Professeur Paul Sisley | 79 m² | €375,000 | €4,800/m² |
Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices. Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property.
Micro-markets
From the Presqu’île to the canut slopes, Lyon reads hill by hill: each has its own light, its volumes and its loyalties.
The bourgeois heart of the Presqu’île, between Bellecour and Perrache: Haussmannian and Belle Époque buildings, noble floors with parquet, mouldings and fireplaces, the volumes that make the Lyon safe value. Quality through apartments are counted and go fast.
The 6th between the Parc de la Tête d’Or and the central schools: quiet avenues, large bourgeois surfaces, the address of Lyon families. Demand is permanent and supply scarce: faultless properties go within days.
The canut quarter, on the slopes and the plateau: high ceilings, stone walls, artists’ workshops and terraces overlooking the city. A character market, where light, floor level and the condition of the building create every value gap.
Western Lyon, the house with a garden ten minutes from the centre: Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Écully, Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, Charbonnières and its spas. A family market that largely trades by private agreement, where the network and the knowledge of quarters surface the best addresses.
The largest Renaissance ensemble in Europe, classified with the rest of the peninsula: galleries, traboules, ceremonial staircases, and the plunging views from the Fourvière gardens. A connoisseurs’ market, demanding on the condition of the building and on works permits.
Targeting precisely
Ainay and the Presqu’île (2nd): a bourgeois flat steps from the shops and the riverbanks, for intermittent or business use.
Foch and Tête d’Or (6th), Sainte-Foy, Écully and Tassin: fine buildings, parks and schools, quiet and close to the centre, for year-round use.
Croix-Rousse (1st and 4th) and Vieux Lyon (5th): silk-weavers’ workshops, slopes and old streets, for those after character rather than polish. Check access and staircases before the offer.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Lyon. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Art de vivre
Living in Lyon means a morning at the Halles Paul Bocuse or the Saint-Antoine market on the banks of the Saône, lunch in a bouchon on Rue des Marronniers, then a walk up the Presqu’île to the Musée des Beaux-Arts on Place des Terreaux. The city is lived on foot: the traboules of La Croix-Rousse, the courtyards of the Grand Hôtel-Dieu, a terrace on Place Sathonay. A city that has kept the habit of doing things slowly, and well.
The seasons set the tempo: the Nuits de Fourvière in the Roman theatres in summer, the Fête des Lumières in December, the first evenings on the banks of the Rhône in spring. Sundays climb to the rose garden of the Parc de la Tête d’Or or head for the Monts d’Or and the Beaujolais, vines and golden stone at the gates of the city. Paris stays 2 hours away by TGV: near enough for a day return, far enough to feel away.
Non-resident buyers
Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport, France’s fifth busiest, serves 135 destinations across 42 countries, including London, Amsterdam, Madrid and Montreal, and is 30 minutes away on the Rhônexpress shuttle. The TGV links Paris in about 2 hours, as little as 1 h 42 on the fastest services, and runs direct to Geneva, Brussels and Barcelona. Few French cities are as easy to fit into a regular international calendar.
Lyon hosts an established international community, supported by its universities, corporate headquarters and several international schools. Formalities and settling in still take time when run from abroad, and the Lyon market reads building by building: the floor, the courtyard, the co-ownership make the difference. Home Select works in French and English and checks those points before you travel.
The market is active from February to July, then in September and October, with a spring peak when characterful stock moves quickly. For a remote buyer, March-May and September combine a wider choice with quieter viewings, outside school holidays. Summer and late December bring the classic slowdown, suited to negotiation but with thinner inventory.
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Three projects, three markets
The same market does not read the same way depending on what you have come for. Here is what each of the three projects means on the ground.
Lyon is the second heritage market in France and one of the safest for a year-round investment: universities, healthcare, corporate headquarters and demand that depends on no season. Older stock on the Presqu’île and the Croix-Rousse calls for a serious survey of the building: facade works, lift, communal heating, energy performance. That is where the return is won or lost.
A Lyon pied-à-terre is bought for the city itself: Ainay, the Presqu’île, the 6th around the Parc de la Tête d’Or. Fine floors are rare and circulate first by word of mouth. For occasional use, the lift, the aspect and the quiet of the courtyard matter more than the floor area advertised.
Lyon offers what few French cities combine: employment, international schools, two hours from Paris by TGV and an international airport. Families weigh the 6th, the Croix-Rousse and western Lyon, from Sainte-Foy to Écully, for a house with a garden. The decisive criterion remains the school run and crossing the bridges at peak hours.
Off-market
A share of the finest sales in Lyon completes without ever being listed. The Home Select network of 15,000 professional partners surfaces more than 100 properties every day before publication, and Home Select also approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.
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What Home Select changes
Plus a negotiation led for you: 6% obtained on average on the asking price.
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What negotiation weighs
Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
Price up my search in LyonThe method
Six precise movements, the same for every search, from the brief to the handover of the keys:
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.
We cover the whole market: published listings, and above all what is never displayed anywhere. Our network of 15,000 professional partners surfaces more than 100 properties for us every day before they go on sale, and we approach owners directly when the setting calls for it.
More than 100 off-market properties surfaced every day by the network.
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.
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.
6% obtained on average off the asking price.
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 our checklists.
Every document checked before you commit.
We stay by your side through to the signing before the notaire, and after: contractors, formalities, moving. Our work ends when you are settled in, not when the deed is signed.
45 days on average from the brief to the authentic deed.
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Advice from Home Select
On the family surfaces of the 2nd and the 6th, sellers choose the safest file, not merely the highest offer. Financing validated by the bank, a notaire appointed, the ability to sign quickly: everything is settled before the first visit.
In La Croix-Rousse as on the Presqu’île, value plays out in the common parts: the structure of canut buildings, roofs, façades, meeting minutes and voted works. Have these documents read before entering negotiation, not after.
Within the classified perimeter, from Vieux Lyon to the slopes, visible works go through the Architecte des Bâtiments de France: windows, air conditioning, openings. Verify the feasibility of your project before the offer: delays and refusals carry a real cost.
Our offers
Exclusive search mandate
2.5% of the net purchase price Minimum €10,000 incl. VAT · every budget
The full service: framing, hunting the whole market including off-list, qualified viewings, negotiation, guidance through to the notaire.
Full fee detail
Simple search mandate
1.5% of the net purchase price Reserved for projects of €2m and above
The same full service, entirely dedicated to off-market properties: only confidential opportunities are presented to you.
Full fee detailPublished fees, no surprises: rare on this market, and deliberate.
Client reviews
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Frequently asked questions
Because the local market has its own rules. A fast market on rare properties: large faultless surfaces go within days. A property finder works for you alone, on the buyer’s side: daily monitoring, access to off-market sales around Ainay and the Presqu’île (2nd) and Foch, Tête d’Or (6th), 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, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025), the median price in Lyon stands at €4,400/m² for an apartment and €5,300/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in our survey: Foch et Tête d'Or (6e), €5,400/m² median. These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
In 2025, 3 rooms traded at a median of €4,400/m² per sqm, on a median surface of 69 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €304,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Notaire fees first: around 7 to 8% of the price on an existing home, 2 to 3% on a new build, paid on the day of signing. Then the finder’s fee, due on success only, and depending on the property the taxe foncière, service charges and a works budget. Home Select prices the whole picture before the offer: the asking price hides nothing. Our notary fees calculator gives the order of magnitude in one line.
Yes: Sainte-Foy, Écully, Tassin, Charbonnières and, depending on the project, the rest of the metropolis and the Monts d’Or.
Your search is run by our national desk and relies on our network of 15,000 partners, including Lyon professionals. Viewings are organised and qualified before you travel.
In 2025, 7,165 sales were recorded in Lyon: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments is down -12% since 2021 and -1% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.
Our searches complete in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40 and about fifteen hours of your time. In Lyon, the monitoring covers Ainay and the Presqu’île (2nd) and Foch, Tête d’Or (6th) from day one, and the calendar, framed at the brief, is held.
Yes, it is Home Select’s daily routine: 30% of its clients are expatriates or international buyers. Video brief, remote shortlisting and commented pre-visits, viewings grouped into a single trip to Lyon, and the team works in French and in English.
Through the network and direct approach: Home Select’s 15,000 professional partners surface more than 100 properties every day before they go on sale, and Home Select also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In Lyon, the monitoring covers Ainay and the Presqu’île (2nd) and Foch, Tête d’Or (6th) first: that is often where the unfindable property is.
Both schools coexist. The noble floor in Ainay or the 6th offers volume, ceiling height and period features, with very steady value. The top floor, on the slopes of La Croix-Rousse especially, brings light and views, sometimes a terrace, at the price of extra vigilance on the roof and the lift. The choice is settled by use: entertaining on one side, privacy on the other.
Ainay and the Presqu’île carry the Haussmannian apartments and noble floors, Lyon’s safe-haven value; Foch and Tête d’Or, the large bourgeois family flats; la Croix-Rousse, the former silk-workers’ lofts and the terraces; Sainte-Foy, Écully and Tassin, the family houses of the West, with parks and schools. Many Lyon journeys start in an apartment and end in the West: the hunt can follow that thread.
The building as much as the flat: traboules and shared courtyards, old co-ownership rules, charges and voted works, the state of the common parts that tells the building’s future. The classified site of Fourvière adds its own constraints. On rare properties the market moves fast: a file ready before the first viewing makes the difference.
It is fast on rare properties: large flawless flats go within days, and a share of the West’s houses sell without publicity, through networks. The market is held by the city’s families, joined by Parisians moving down. Daily watching and knowledge of the local networks show what never reaches a listing.
Lyon carries one of France’s most solid rental markets: students, professionals and families sustain year-round letting, quarter after quarter. A noble floor in Ainay or a Croix-Rousse loft lets fast and well. Short lets are regulated as everywhere: the co-ownership rules are read before the offer, they make the real yield.
Two hours by TGV: Lyon is the easiest big city to hunt from Paris. One day covers the Presqu’île and Croix-Rousse, a second the West. We group viewings by quarter, video filters upstream, and the offer can follow the same day: on rare properties, speed wins.
The buildings of the 2nd and 6th sometimes hide heavy charges and old rules: the minutes are read like the technical survey. La Croix-Rousse’s lofts ask for structure and light. On Fourvière, the classified site frames the facades. Our building and co-ownership audit always comes before the apartment viewing.
To hunt in Lyon, check four points: a search mandate on the buyer’s side only, published fees due on success, a written method, proof that lasts. Home Select answers all four: founded in 2011, 1,200+ buyers guided, 4.8/5 on Google (130+ reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select 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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