200 EUR per metre square against average 267

The price of new apartments continue their ascent. In the third quarter, the average price per square metre of new apartments sold by developers increased by 7 from the third quarter of 2009, 3.615 euros, according to figures from the Ministry of ecology. Rising concerns all types of apartments but it did not prevent the progression of sales, developers who had sold on the quarter passed 30,000 individual and collective housing. It is 11 more than in the third quarter of 2009, and this increase is solely due to the apartments ( 13) while sales of houses remained stable (0.4).

12 Sliding months, the progression of the total sales of housing reached 20. Outstanding proposed sale continues to decline, sales warnings and cancellations of reservation being lower than sales.

The stagnation of sales of houses reveals a growing désolvabilisation. Houses in less than four parts sales increase ( 17.1) when they fall for large surfaces. Promoters adapt by building smaller. Their updates homes for sale increased by 32, 56 for less than four parts and only 10.4 for five parts. And the average selling price (231.200 euros) declined by 5.1 in one year, especially for the large houses of six pieces or more (-26).

To produce lower prices, it should be houses of builders (building on the land purchased by an individual, as opposed to developers selling the House and the whole field), emphasize their representatives, the Union of French houses (UMF) and the SNAL. "The cost of a House of constructor is lower than that of an apartment or a House sponsor, because there is no the same regulatory constraints (standards disabled, etc.), and collective dwellings House does have any parts or common (from 15 to 20 of the cost of an apartment) or underground parking, etc.". "It is a type of habitat more simple," explains Dominique Duperret, Secretary General of the UMF.

On average over 2006-2008, "in the peripheral municipalities of urban areas, the average cost of an apartment is 3.200 EUR per metre square against average 267.000 euro or 2,000 euros habitable per square metre for a House of 130 m2 including the cost of a field of 860 m2", he says.

But what about sprawl, urban little green Should be the smaller plots of less than 400 m2, yet they represent that 6 of the total supply of managed parcels, counter the UMF and the SNAL. "Anyway, you won't not live in an apartment in a household that a house", says Pascale Poirot, President of the SNAL. The restrictions by the communes to individual housing in urban areas do lead to a transfer of purchases to more remote rural areas, so they are less expensive...

Even so, the UMF and the SNAL recognize a désolvabilisation of the middle class. Part of the latter (winner of 1,400 to 2,400 euros households) has a budget exceeding difficult to 160,000 euros and the other (income ranging from 2,400 to 3,500 euros) cannot go beyond 210,000 euros. But the average price of a House of constructor is 280,000 euros in urban pole and 230,000 euros in peri-urban, against 210,000 euros in rural areas, according to the study conducted by Caron Marketing and cabinet adequacy on the purchases of individual dwellings in France from 2006 to 2008.