After two years of pandemic, we observe a slow loosening of metropolises, but no sweeping towards the campaigns. These flows are mainly retired, employees in teleworking and modest households who want to accommodate at least fresh.
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Has the health crisis really provoked an urban exodus? It is too early to measure it in statistics. However, from 2020 real estate agents and notaries had detected a post-Covid-19 residential dynamic. Now, it’s no longer big cities, starting with Paris, who pull up the price of the square meter, but rather the average cities, even rural areas.
Notaries’ data, published Thursday, February 24, confirm: in 2021, Paris prices fell 1.6%, when those of the Grande Crown grew by 3.8% for apartments and 6, 8% for houses. At the national level, the cost of the square meter of apartment was still in 2021, appreciated by 4.6% and that of the houses, of 9%, an unprecedented situation which testifies to the appetite for the houses and the gardens. In the municipalities of less than 10,000 inhabitants, the square meter is up 9.3%.
“The revenge of medium cities, really?”, Questioners of France Strategy in two studies published in February, after having auscultate the dynamic 202 average cities of at least 10,000 inhabitants, including the urban area of more than 20,000, located outside the attraction zone of France.
In total, 85 of these cities – some relatives of the coasts, in the West (Saint-Malo, La Rochelle, Vannes, Angers, and to Bayonne, in the South West), in the South Mediterranean ( Sète, Perpignan, Narbonne …), in the Rhone Valley (Avignon, Valencia …) or the Two Savies (Chambéry, Annecy, Albertville …) – Follow a favorable trajectory, with an increase in the population, prices of the real estate and job creations. Northern and eastern country are not yet concerned.
“Extension of the periurbanization”
“A rise in real estate prices does not mean the final installation of newcomers in villages,” says Hélène Milet, coordinator of the study launched in 2021 on residential mobility, which it entitled “urban exodus? Small flows, great effects “. ” by analyzing Internet searches on sites such as LebonCoin or mail mail requests by mail, there is no overflow to campaigns, rather a loosening metropolises, A rural renaissance by an extension of the peri-urbanization, “she continues.
Paris, for example, lost 2.54% of its households between March 17, 2020 and March 16, 2021. This may seem little at the capital level, but if they settle in Small towns so far in deseriece, they upset the real estate market and all the local life.
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