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Real estate: the boom in country houses in Ile-de-France and Oise

2021-04-27T14:27:29.494Z


The greater crown is not only attractive for its main residences. More and more Parisians and inhabitants of inner suburbs are ac


Go green on weekends in a beautiful stone house with a garden, meet up with family or friends during the holidays, all at 1 hour - 1:30 from Paris… These are images that make you dream of many Parisians or suburbanites.

After the first confinement, a quarter (26%) of Ile-de-France residents were thinking of buying a second home according to an Orpi survey (June 2020).

If the health crisis has indeed led to departures to the greater suburbs (Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne, Val-d'Oise), Oise and even beyond for the purchase of main residences, it has also gave a boost to the purchase of second homes, often with the hybrid status of bi-residentiality. “We have 10 to 20% more demand since the Covid, loose Stéphane Chaillé, head of the Orpi agency in Magny-en-Vexin (Val-d'Oise). I have just sold a house in Magny of 240 square meters with 450 square meters of land for 400,000 euros to a couple of Parisians. Their two children will go to school there and they keep a pied-à-terre in Paris, where they continue to work. The rise of teleworking has changed everything and since we have fiber, it suits them. "

Others buy to spend the weekend there like this couple from La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis) who have just acquired a building of 100 square meters in La Roche-Guyon (Val-d'Oise), classified "Most beautiful village in France", with a breathtaking view of the loops of the Seine for 230,000 euros.

An impact on prices

Obviously, demand has an impact on prices: + 5% according to him for the price range of 250-300,000 euros. The Vexin atypical spaces agency sold a property for 708,000 euros without negotiation when it was estimated at 550,000 euros in January 2020! A runaway that is not necessarily found at the regional level. According to the LPI-Se Loger barometer, the average amount of goods purchased in Ile-de-France for a second home in the first quarter of 2021 amounted to 362,900 euros, an increase of 1.35% compared to 2020.

According to a study by the Atelier parisien d'urbanisme (Apur) in November 2020, 163,000 Parisian households * (14%) had a second home in 2017. 13.6% in Ile-de-France, 5% in the outer suburbs .

“The 2010s were marked by the boom in tourist rental which had weakened interest in country houses.

The Covid has probably reshuffled the cards, ”said Stéphanie Jankel, director of studies.

"We are in short supply"

Seine-et-Marne is one of the flagship departments. “We have a lot of requests from Parisians. Ideally, they want a farmhouse, stone, a garden, no nuisance and be able to get there in 1 hour - 1 hour 15 minutes. The market existed before, but not with as much force », estimates Céline Parente, of the agency from the Château to Egreville (Seine-et-Marne), between the Gâtinais and the Bocage. She sold two small longères (70 and 90 square meters of living space with 200 and 500 square meters of land) for around 200,000 euros. "We are in the fields and more in the countryside than Nemours, but it is well served because we have three highways (A77, A6 and A19)", continues the professional. On the other hand, on the transport side, it takes twenty minutes by bus to connect the RER stations of Souppes-sur-Loing or Nemours.

A colleague confirms the enthusiasm: “It goes very quickly, even the houses that were hanging around to be sold.

There is a shortage, ”says Séverine Peudevin, head of the Gâtinais agency at Chapelle-la-Reine.

Even the barns are leaving!

A Parisian couple bought one from Fromont for 65,000 euros to retype it.

In Grisy-sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne), one of the cities where there are the most second homes in the outer suburbs (34%), a bourgeois house sold for 165,000 euros, or 1,300 euros per square meter, without negotiation because the two buyers, a local and a Parisian, were fighting for it.

The local won, but some inhabitants of the upper suburbs are enraged by the competition of "Parisians who sweep everything".

In the Yvelines, the search for a country house is exceptional: "People come for a main residence", we say in Rambouillet and Chevreuse. On the other hand, demand does exist in Essonne, especially in Milly-la-Forêt: "There was a revival between two confinements and it continues", notes a negotiator from the Laforêt agency. A 270 square meter house with 400 square meters of land cost 545,000 euros. Please note, it takes ten minutes by car to connect to the Maisse RER station then 1 hour and 20 minutes to reach Gare de Lyon. "It preserves the countryside side", slips the professional.

The Oise is also very popular.

"Before the Covid, demand tended to fall, but with the health crisis it has regained strength", points Sylvain Cuyer, head of the Sylvain real estate agency in Songeons.

Parisian customers represent half of the calls.

The area benefits from the attraction of Gerberoy, classified among “the most beautiful villages in France” with its half-timbered houses.

In Escames, a Parisian couple bought an 80 square meter farmhouse to restore with 4000 square meters of land for 85,000 euros.

Another paid 280,000 euros for a beautiful stone property with a park of 2,500 square meters in Saint-Quentin-des-Prés in the Epte valley.

* Source: Insee Ile-de-France demographic file of fiscal origin on housing and people (Fideli), 2017.

Source: leparis

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