Property prices in Arcachon in 2026

The table on this page details the apartment median by number of rooms, and it barely moves: one room €7,200/sqm (111 sales), two rooms €7,200/sqm (111 sales), three rooms €7,300/sqm (108 sales), four rooms €7,300/sqm (35 sales). The pied-à-terre studio and the family three-room flat sell at almost the same price per square metre: the gap comes from the line, the floor and the view, far more than from the size. With four-room flats, rarer, a handful of deeds is enough to move the median.

Houses follow their own curve: three rooms €7,500/sqm (28 sales), four rooms €8,100/sqm (36 sales), five rooms and more €7,400/sqm (74 sales). The large family house, the most sold, costs less per square metre but far more in total. These figures say nothing of the condition of the timber and the roofs, the damp, the exposure to the westerly wind or the voted works of a co-ownership on the Bassin front: the surveys, at the seller’s expense, are read before talking price.

The series of apartment medians, shown above, tells a round trip: €7,500/sqm at end of June 2022, a peak at €8,200/sqm at end of June 2023, then a three-year decline, to €7,900/sqm at end of June 2024, €7,700/sqm at end of June 2025 and €7,200/sqm over the 12 months to end of June 2026. Over one year, the median fell by 7%; since June 2022, it is down by 4%. The correction has wiped out the whole surge.

No forecast here: registered sales describe the past, not the year to come. They allow you to recognise a fair price when it appears, and not to pay the peak price in 2026. The correction reopens room for negotiation on properties listed too high; the scarcity of the fine addresses does not correct: the finest villas still change hands without appearing in an agency window.

The neighbouring sectors publish their own house medians, and they draw the geography of the Bassin: the peninsula level with Arcachon, everything else clearly below. To the south, Gujan-Mestras and Le Teich read at €4,100/sqm; to the east, Biganos, Audenge and Lanton at €3,300/sqm. The Pyla figure calls for a careful reading: it covers the whole commune of La Teste-de-Buch, and the villas of the corniche, which carry the highest values of the Arcachon market, trade well above it.

On this market, the search is run by the management of Home Select with its network of 15,000 partners; pre-viewings are done by video with the seller’s agent, and you travel only for the decisive viewings, grouped into a single trip. Fees are due 100% on success: 2.5% incl. VAT of the net purchase price with the Exclusive offer, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT; 1.5% incl. VAT of the net purchase price with the Confidential offer, reserved for projects of €2M and above, where only off-market properties are presented. Nothing is due before completion.