For the first time, average real estate prices exceeded 10,000 euros per square meter in Paris. The capital becomes more and more inaccessible to buy a home.

This is a symbolic bar that reflects both a dynamic real estate market and increasingly meager opportunities to buy when you belong to the middle class: Paris has just crossed the symbolic bar of 10,000 euros per meter square, on average. Several real estate networks had already announced, but the notaries confirmed it Thursday morning.

A legacy needed to buy?

Roman is directly affected by this steady and continuing rise in prices: when he became a father, he made his accounts. Perceiving with his companion 7.000 euros per month and having very low rates, he hoped to buy a 60 square meters in the 11th district of the capital.

"The more we advance in time, the more it will be impossible "

"We went to see our bank several times and we studied several scenarios," he tells the microphone of Europe 1. "But we must resolve to a form of reality: today, we can not buy Every day, this prospect of becoming homeowners in Paris is getting farther away, because the prices keep going up, the more we go forward in time, the more it's going to be impossible, we have to have a legacy, a first apartment left by the family or a property of this type "to become owner.

Seasoned Parisians buying and selling

For many, the situation boils down to a choice between staying a renter or leaving Paris. But this is not the case for everyone: "People who still have the means to buy apartments in Paris are exclusively Parisians who practice this 'sport' for a long time.They buy and sell every five years for buy bigger, take advantage of their added value and realize their wealth ", analysis Philippe Gaudry, real estate agent in the center of Paris.

According to him, "this phenomenon will continue as long as there is a permanent rise in the market every year." And it is not ready to stop, since this bidding is encouraged by real estate agents who need to obtain mandates. This should therefore contribute to further crowding out the popular classes of home ownership in Paris: in 2018, 86% of buyers of old homes came from the most favored socio-professional categories, against only 5% for employees and workers.