"I didn't even know where the Oise was before": they left Paris to change their life

It still resonates a little, this Saturday, in the living room of Émeline and Nicolas.

The young couple, 22 and 23, moved into their new home just a week ago.

A first rushed real estate purchase, after confinement in 30 square meters in Mareuil-en-France (Val-d'Oise).

" Never again!

»They sum up together.

It is in the Oise, in Andeville, that they found their happiness: a pavilion of 95 square meters, in the middle of a garden of 1000 square meters.

After a week, Émeline and Nicolas are already feeling the benefits of life outside the Paris region.

“When the keys were handed over, the former owners had warned us:

.

We confirm, it's incomparable!

We sleep better, it's much less stressful.

"

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Both on permanent contracts, Émeline and Nicolas obtained their loan of 260,000 euros without difficulty.

“We started looking in the upper Val-d'Oise but it was really out of budget.

Here, the prices are lower ”, summarizes the young woman.

The couple represents the typical profile of buyers who are currently jostling in real estate agencies in the Oise.

"We only have that," smiles Mathieu Smetryns, from the You Immobilier agency in Méru, whose clientele is 80% from the Ile-de-France region.

A house for the price of 36 square meters in Val-d'Oise

“Here, we can hope to have an old house with two or three bedrooms and a small piece of land for 175,000 euros, or the price of 36 square meters in L'Isle-Adam, summarizes the manager.

So the Ile-de-France residents are coming back up!

“Since May 11, You Immobilier has been working just in time.

“When a house comes in, it comes out immediately.

"

The confinement, Julien and Marie spent it, them, in the Oise, in Apremont, with the in-laws of Madame.

It did not take more to convince them to settle, in turn, in the department.

With hindsight, they would have done better to take the plunge a little earlier.

“We started looking at the end of 2019 and the market was calm, but the confinement put us in competition with ten times as many Ile-de-France residents who literally went crazy, remarks Julien.

We ended up with a lot less offers.

"

In Raray, Julien, Marie and their baby are enjoying their garden far, far from their old little apartment in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.

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The couple left the capital for Raray on June 21, with their 6-month-old baby boy.

They swap their apartment in the 19th arrondissement of Paris for a freestone house in this charming village located 10 km north of Senlis.

“Going from the 19th century to a town of 150 inhabitants is a big change,” smiles the couple, who enjoy 100% of their garden and the “beautiful country roads” that Julien walks on his motorcycle.

The car, the other side of the coin

For now, they have decided to rent.

"The idea is not to rush, to identify the best advantages and disadvantages to buy in not too long ago," they predict.

First observation: it is better to be conveyed.

“The downside of living in the Oise is that the journey times can be a little longer.

We quickly travel 15 km to go shopping, but that's the price to pay, ”explains Julien.

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What Charlotte confirms.

This Parisian has swapped Montmartre for Coye-la-Forêt, where she has been renting a house with a garden since June.

“The magic aspect is that there is a TER.

The disadvantages, I knew them: the frost in the morning, the car that does not start in winter, but I need nature so much… On the other hand, I have a 9-year-old daughter and I had not taken it well. take into account the difficulty of caring for a child.

In Paris, you quickly find a baby-sitter.

Here it was more difficult.

Unannounced visits or evenings, I forget.

But to choose is to give up! ”

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There are those who buy in the countryside, those who rent to be sure of their choice, then Élodie, who has found a compromise: to buy, but in Creil.

25 minutes by train from Gare du Nord in Paris, the city mixed all the criteria of what it was looking for.

“Becoming an owner, for me in Paris, was impossible.

"

This Tuesday, she signs her loan application for a red brick workers' house, extended by a pretty garden.

“I buy a 98 square meter house while in Paris I rent a 45 square meter apartment, and I will save 500 euros per month.

So it was quickly seen.

"And above all ..." It's a house, a house!

No neighbors neither below nor above ”, insists Élodie,“ amazed to see that there was this type of property within 60 km of Paris ”.

The real estate stock of Oise is therefore rediscovering its colors, and a new clientele, thanks to deconfinement.

“A year ago, I didn't even know where the Oise was,” says Élodie.

When you live in Paris, when you work in Paris, you have Ile-de-France in mind.

This confinement opened up possibilities for me.

"

"They are looking for the perfect property less than an hour from Paris"

What type of property are Parisians looking for when they want to move into the Oise?

Brice Collard, real estate agent.

It's very simple: almost all of them are looking for the cliché of the small family house in the middle of nature.

A stone house of character whose price is the equivalent of that of the apartment they sell in Paris or in Val-d'Oise.

But be careful, they don't want it to be too wasted!

In fact, they are looking for a property with a garden, a little isolated but still close to a train station… The perfect property, less than an hour from Paris!

Has the Ooisian real estate market changed?

There is a resurgence of interest in homes that would have taken some time to sell before confinement, and which today find buyers very quickly.

For example, I very quickly sold a house near Cires-lès-Mello which would not have found buyers so quickly before.

If you had one piece of advice for these Ile-de-France residents targeting the Oise, what would it be?

By moving to the Oise, we are about to change our life.

It is necessary, for example, to accept to switch to a daily newspaper while in the car.

I have had clients who have found themselves dreaming during confinement and who, in the end, change their mind.

Better not to go too fast.