Cannes Apartments — La Croisette & La Californie

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Apartment sales on the Croisette front line — Vieux-Port to Port Canto — and in the Californie hills over ten years, at €4M and above, as recorded in the state's deed register. Each sale is one apartment: whole buildings and mixed commercial deals are counted separately, because they price something different.

2,752 sales in two areas, and a front line at 3.4 times the city price

What the state register of property sales (DVF, published by the French tax administration) records for La Croisette, La Californie and the whole commune of Cannes, 2016–2025

One boulevard at 16 892 € a square metre, one hill at 6 218 €

Cannes sells more apartments than any other kind of home, and this report covers the two parts of that market where the money concentrates. La Croisette is the seafront boulevard: the beaches take the seaward side, so the buildings stand in a single row on the land side, from the old port to Port Canto. La Californie is the hill just east of the centre, above the bay, where apartments sit in large residences set in gardens. The rest of the commune stands behind both as the scale to read them against.

The two markets differ in price, not in what they sell. The middle apartment is 76 m² on the boulevard and 74 m² on the hill, and the middle rate is 16 892 € a square metre against 6 218 €. The boulevard therefore costs 3.4 times the commune figure of 4 997 €, and the hill runs about a quarter above it. Together the two areas recorded 2,752 qualified sales for €2.27bn, out of 23,765 sales and €8.71bn for the whole commune.

These figures understate the top of the market. The register lists sales of the property itself, and an apartment of this rank often changes hands as shares in the company that holds it (an SCI, the French property-holding company). A sale of shares never enters the register at all.

La Croisette: 619 sales, €932M, 64 of them at €3M or more

Front-line boulevard addresses only, from the old port to Port Canto. The cadastral sections behind them reach the rue d’Antibes and are deliberately left out of the figures.

La Croisette: the same 619 sales, year by year

The readable series behind the two charts — same query, same qualification

La Croisette: the middle rate rose 48% in ten years, to 20 090 € a square metre

Median price per square metre of Carrez floor area · the register states one on 80% of these sales, and every rate here rests on those

La Croisette: the eight largest sales top out at €12.00M

Year of deed, street, floor area, rooms and annexes conveyed with the apartment — never a house number

La Californie: 2,133 sales, €1.34bn, 26 of them at €3M or more

The seven cadastral sections of the Californie hill (CK · CL · CM · CW · DH · DI · DK), the same ground we use for Californie villas.

La Californie: the same 2,133 sales, year by year

The readable series behind the two charts — same query, same qualification

La Californie: the middle rate rose 42% in ten years, to 7 013 € a square metre

Median price per square metre of Carrez floor area · the register states one on 79% of these sales, and every rate here rests on those

La Californie: the eight largest sales top out at €10.50M

Year of deed, street, floor area, rooms and annexes conveyed with the apartment — never a house number

Behind both: 23,765 apartment sales across Cannes, €8.71bn

The commune as a whole recorded 23,765 qualified apartment sales in the ten years, for €8.71bn, at a middle rate of 4 997 € a square metre. 123 of them reached €3M or more. The largest, €19.00M in December 2025, was at an address in neither area read above, which is worth remembering when a single number is quoted for the city.

The floor area used for every rate here is the register's own Carrez figure — the surface a French sale contract must state. It covers the apartment, not its cellar or its parking space, and it is missing on 4,093 of the commune's 23,765 sales. Where the recorded surface covers only part of an apartment, the rate that comes out of it is nonsense: the highest in the two areas above is 177 529 € a square metre, from a €2.62M sale entered with 15 m². Every page of this report therefore quotes middles, and the range around them, rather than extremes.

The 12 most recent recorded sales in the two areas

Newest first · month of deed, area, street, floor area and price — never a house number

The 42 Cannes apartment sales at €4M or more

Every qualified sale at that level anywhere in the commune, including addresses outside the two areas above, as the register records it. Year of deed and street only: we print the year and the street, not the address, so no individual home is identifiable.

Source: Demandes de Valeurs Foncières (DGFiP), Licence Ouverte 2.0 — each sale counted once and individually qualified by Elena Agueeva. Deeds are listed highest first; “—” marks a deed whose street the register leaves blank.

What these figures give for one property: a valuation in 48 hours

This report covers the whole perimeter. Our agency also values a single property, with the same method and the same official sources an expert immobilier works from: the state's register of sales, the cadastre, and the local plan.

One of our agents visits to appraise the view, the garden, and the quality of the construction and the finishes. You receive an avis de valeur (a written valuation opinion) within 48 hours, with every comparable sale named and traceable to its registered deed.

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How these figures were built, and where they stop. Two areas are read here. The first is the front line itself: apartments whose address is the boulevard de la Croisette, from the old port to Port Canto; the sections behind them reach the rue d'Antibes and are left out. The second is drawn on the cadastre: the seven sections of the Californie hill, taken whole. Commune figures cover every apartment sale in Cannes, both areas included. One sale often enters the register as several rows: the apartment, its cellar, its parking space. Those rows describe one sale, and every page here follows that rule — each sale counted once. A sale is analysed only where the deed describes one apartment changing hands at an identifiable price: records that bundle several apartments, or an apartment with a shop or a house, are set aside and never averaged in. Prices are the figures the register holds, annexes included where they were conveyed in the same deed. The register records sales of the property itself: a sale of company shares (SCI) never appears, so the top of this market is understated. Rates per square metre use the recorded Carrez area, and only the sales that carry one. The window opens in 2016 for a reason: the register's Cannes apartment records for 2014 and 2015 carry no address, no cadastral reference and no floor area. Those 3,678 records cannot be placed in either area, and none of them enters a figure here. The window ends where the published register ends, on 31 December 2025; sales completed after that date are in no figure here.

Where do these figures come from?

From « Demandes de Valeurs Foncières » (DVF), Direction générale des Finances publiques — the only official record of French property transactions — with each sale counted once by the Elena Agueeva Intelligence Unit, even when it covers several parcels.

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