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 Cannes median rate

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

Median apartment prices: €16,892/m² on the Croisette, €6,218/m² in La Californie

This report compares two areas of Cannes over 2016–2025. On the Croisette, it covers apartments along the seafront boulevard between the Old Port and Port Canto. In La Californie, it covers residences set in gardens on the hillside east of the centre, overlooking the bay. Figures for Cannes as a whole provide a comparison.

The apartments sold were similar in size: the median floor area was 76 m² on the Croisette and 74 m² in La Californie. Prices differed considerably. The median price per square meter was €16,892 on the Croisette, compared with €6,218 in La Californie and €4,997 across Cannes. That puts the Croisette at 3.4 times the city median and La Californie about 25% above it.

Among the transactions included in this analysis, the two areas accounted for 2,752 sales totalling €2.27 billion. Across Cannes, the corresponding figures were 23,765 sales and €8.71 billion.

These figures cover direct property sales recorded in DVF. Transactions completed by selling shares in a property-owning company do not appear in the database and are excluded from this analysis.

Three of the apartment sales in these two areas over the twelve months to September 2026 were closed by our agency, for a combined €12.34 million, per the commission invoices held for them. None of them is in the figures above: the most recent closed after 31 December 2025, where these figures stop, and the earlier one is a deed carrying several apartments, which this analysis sets aside.

La Croisette: 619 sales, €932 million, 64 of them at €3 million 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

Annual figures used in the charts above

La Croisette: the median price per square meter rose 48% in ten years, to €20,090

Median price per square meter of recorded Carrez floor area · DVF records one on 80% of these sales, and every rate here rests on those

La Croisette: the eight largest sales top out at €12 million

Year of deed, street, floor area, rooms and annexes conveyed with the apartment · house numbers are omitted · floor areas and rates are rounded for display, and each rate is calculated from the unrounded area

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

The seven cadastral sections of the Californie hill (CK · CL · CM · CW · DH · DI · DK), the same boundaries used in our report on Californie villas.

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

Annual figures used in the charts above

La Californie: the median price per square meter rose 42% in ten years, to €7,013

Median price per square meter of recorded Carrez floor area · DVF records one on 79% of these sales, and every rate here rests on those

La Californie: the eight largest sales top out at €10.5 million

Year of deed, street, floor area, rooms and annexes conveyed with the apartment · house numbers are omitted · floor areas and rates are rounded for display, and each rate is calculated from the unrounded area

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

Cannes as a whole recorded 23,765 qualified apartment sales in the ten years, for €8.71 billion, at a median of €4,997 per square meter. 123 of them reached €3 million or more. The largest, €19 million 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.

Every rate on this page uses the Carrez floor area DVF records — the surface a French sale contract must state. It covers the apartment, not its cellar or its parking space. A sale enters a price per square meter when its recorded Carrez area is above 8 m², and is excluded otherwise. That rule leaves out 4,093 of the 23,765 Cannes sales, which carry no area at all, or 8 m² or less. No other check is applied to the area. A sale whose recorded surface covers only part of an apartment therefore stays in the calculation: the highest rate in the two areas above is €177,529 per square meter, from a €2.62 million sale recorded with 15 m². Records like that are why this page reports medians, which they barely move, and never maximums.

Latest sales of €3M+ on the Croisette and in La Californie · DVF through December 2025

The 42 Cannes apartment sales at €4 million or more

Every qualified sale at that level anywhere in Cannes, including addresses outside the two areas above, as DVF records it. Year of deed and street only: house numbers are omitted.

Source: Demandes de Valeurs Foncières (DGFiP)

About the data

This report compares apartment sales on the Croisette and in La Californie with sales across Cannes.

For the Croisette, we include only apartments with an address on boulevard de la Croisette, between the Old Port and Port Canto. Streets behind the boulevard, towards rue d’Antibes, are excluded. For La Californie, we use seven sections of the official land map, including each section in full. The Cannes figures cover the whole city, including both areas, and follow the same selection criteria.

Prices are those recorded in DVF. They include any cellar, parking space or other additional property sold under the same deed. To calculate prices per square meter, we divide that total price by the apartment’s recorded Carrez floor area. Sales without this measurement are excluded from the price-per-square-meter calculations.

DVF records direct property sales. It does not include sales of shares in companies that own property, such as a French SCI (société civile immobilière), so those transactions are not reflected in this report.

The analysis covers 2016–2025. The data used for this report runs through 31 December 2025; later sales are not included.

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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

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