Since the health crisis, a wave of buyers from the capital climb the real estate market. A couple explains his choice and the difficulties encountered.
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Cartons clutter the rental apartment they occupy in the 7 e district of Marseille for ten months, a sign of an imminent move. One last migration to this new place – 50 square meters, large terrace, no vis-à-vis, sea view – which they fantasize the purchase for a few months.
Nadège Serre and Maxime Fernandez are part of these active Parisians who have decided, since the first confinement, in March 2020, to leave the capital to settle in Marseille. A movement that makes mechanically climb the prices of real estate in a metropolis that remained, before the Cvid-19, one of the cheapest of France.
It, 38 years old, sparkling director of creation in the beautiful professional career, in the process of reconversion. He, 39, composer, guitar teacher, serious brown who does not give up his words at random. “It seems that for once, we are part of a trend … we are rather culture underground, it changes us,” he is surprised, with one of his rare smiles.
Nadège and Maxime know Marseille well. They grew there, met there before flying up, seventeen years ago, towards Paris and its opportunities. “We were going to not come back,” they conced in choir. For them, as for many others – EN 2021, the Chamber of Notaries Bouches-du-Rhône estimated 7.1% the share of Parisian buyers in real estate sales – the pandemic and its sanitary constraints served as a click . “The idea of leaving Paris existed since 2019, remembers Maxime. The Covid has transformed our desire elsewhere in necessity.”
A dream life in Paris
In the capital, the couple, however, had its benchmarks, from work and a nice apartment bought in the 10 e arrondissement, after nine years rental in the suburbs, in Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine -St Denis). “I had the impression of having reached all that I wanted: employee, an interesting job and owner in a street of which I dreamed, a 10-minute walk from my office …”, sums up nadège. But, for the artistic director, Paris, it was also a devouring pace. “During the first confinement, I worked ten times more than usual. I came out rinsed.”
Maxime, he sees his project of music group stop in full flight, leaded by the sanitary constraints. “Our last concert took place on March 14, 2020, the evening of the beginning of the confinement,” he regrets. From the pandemic, the couple keeps a severe bitterness, even if it was not touched by the virus. “A power hate 12 on how the government has managed that, applying a precautionary principle, without discernment,” Nadège, not vaccinated for medical reasons and deeply opposed to the sanitary pass. “The feeling of inconsistent measures, as prohibiting concerts but to authorize political meetings”, complete maxim.
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