In Île-de-France, houses are popular but apartments are resisting. Of course, the crisis Covid-19 confirms the slow decline of collective housing, which began in 2017. Five years ago, 70% of housing sold in the Paris region were apartments, according to the notaries of Greater Paris. But today, the rate is still around 68%. For 5 years, the share of houses in Île-de-France, a region which has been said to have attracted, during the health crisis, many households, wishing to buy larger and cheaper housing, has not therefore increased by only 2 points, from 30% in 2017 to 32% in 2021.
For Me Thierry Delesalle, notary in Paris, “the desire for a house confronted the financial reality». «Not everyone can afford a househe points out. Some households have fallen back on an apartment, most in the Petite Couronne, others in the Grande Couronne because they are cheaper than in the Petite Couronne and can have a small exterior“. But suddenly, they are more eccentric.
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This 32% of houses sold in Ile-de-France is a record but which has already been established in 2020, a year marked by two confinements which pushed the French to sell their apartment to buy a house, and especially well before the health crisis. , in 2016. The rush towards individual housing already seems to have taken a hit. The number of houses sold between 2020 and 2021 has certainly increased by 8.5% but, with an increase of 7.7% over the same period, apartments are not doing so badly.
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With 56,000 properties sold in Île-de-France in 2021, houses are close to the historic record for 2019 (nearly 57,000) but, with 121,000 transactions, so are apartments… Not bad for properties that were supposed to have much less rating in Île-de-France for two years. For Me Charles Flobert, notary in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (94), the explanation comes from the evolution of the Ile-de-France park. “Over this period, thousands of apartments were built while at the same time, houses were destroyed in the Petite Couronne, in particular to build collective housinghe deciphers. In the Grande Couronne, few houses have been built, at least less than apartments. This mechanically leads to more sales of apartments than of houses.»
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Twice as many apartments as houses changed hands last year in the Paris region. Where houses are much more popular is in the Grande Couronne. They weighed more than 50% of sales on average in 2021: from 46% in Yvelines (78) to 61% in Seine-et-Marne (77), a department which “covers half of the surface of Île-de-France and allows less dense housing“, underline the notaries of Greater Paris.
On the other hand, in the Petite Couronne, collective housing dominates: 88% of sales in Hauts-de-Seine (92), 75% in Val-de-Marne (94) and 69% in Seine-Saint -Denis (93). As for Paris, the share of houses is, unsurprisingly, starving: less than 1% of the 36,000 homes sold in 2021.
