Cap-Ferret La Pointe — The 12-Year Villa Market

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The Saumos wildfire of July 2026 reached this peninsula on 23 July and the whole commune was evacuated. The Préfecture de la Gironde authorised the return on Monday 3 August — from 14:00 for the bourg de Lège and from 19:00 for the rest of the peninsula — after twelve days. Twenty houses in the commune were destroyed, a figure given by the mayor’s office; the far larger totals reported at the time (42,000 hectares, 252 buildings) describe the wider Gironde fire across twenty-three communes, not this commune. At the reopening, campsites and habitats légers remained closed, the forest was still shut to walkers and cyclists, and this commune’s supervised beaches and nautical bases had not reopened, so access to the peninsula’s beaches and natural areas is worth checking locally before travelling. The market figures on this page are drawn from the state register through December 2025 and therefore describe the market as it stood before the fire.

Every villa sale on the tip of the Cap Ferret peninsula — from L'Herbe to the pointe — over ten years, read by transaction count, by transaction value, and through the register's 25 largest sales.

686 deeds in twelve years, and a €17.62M ceiling

What the state register of property sales (DVF, published by the French tax administration) records from L'Herbe to the tip of the peninsula, 2014–2025

The peninsula has one road, the ocean on one side and the basin on the other

At Lège-Cap-Ferret the land narrows to a strip between two shores. The villages follow one another along a single road — L'Herbe, La Vigne, then the Cap-Ferret village, the 44 Hectares and the lighthouse — until the peninsula ends in dunes facing the Dune du Pilat. The Atlantic runs along the west side; the Bassin d'Arcachon lies to the east, with the town of Arcachon across the water. Building stops at the shore on both sides, so the number of waterfront plots is fixed by the shape of the land.

The strip carries 47% of the whole commune's villa money on 27% of its sales: €1.40bn through 686 qualified deeds in twelve years. The median moved from €1.26M before 2021 to €1.96M since, and the three largest sales of the series (€17.62M, €17.50M and €16.10M) all date from 2021 or later. 2022 was the busiest year, with 107 sales; 2023 and 2024 slowed to 48 each. For 2025 the register as published so far shows 73 sales for €158.0M.

Twelve years put €1.40bn through 686 deeds

Deed count by year above, value by year below — each column stacked by price band

The same 686 deeds, year by year

The readable series behind the two charts — same query, each sale counted once

2014 and 2015 are nearly empty because the cadastre’s section numbering here dates from 2016–2017: sales registered under the older references cannot be matched to the sections this report is drawn on. Read the series from 2016 onward.

The 12 most recent recorded sales

Newest first · month of deed, street and price — the state publishes the register in instalments, and late-registered sales can still be added to the newest months

The register writes the village after the street: “avenue de Bordeaux Cap Ferret” is the avenue de Bordeaux at the Cap-Ferret village. “Le Boque” is a place name the register carries with no street type. Streets are printed without house numbers.

The 122 properties that sold twice, steepest change first

First and latest recorded sale on the same cadastral parcel · the eight steepest of the 122

A street can appear twice: each row is one distinct property, identified by its cadastral parcel. Between two sales the recorded floor area often grows — the houses come back extended or rebuilt. Where that happened, the price change includes the works, not just the market.

The twelve largest deeds top out at €17.62M

Year of deed, street and price — 10 of the 12 date from 2021 or later

Year of deed and street only, never a house number.

The parcel maps: 3,087 parcels, 524 of them traded

The 18 sections drawn to the cadastre, from L'Herbe to the tip

How these figures were built, and where they stop. The perimeter is drawn on the cadastre: the 18 southern sections of Lège-Cap-Ferret, from L'Herbe to the tip; Le Canon and everything north of it is excluded. One sale often enters the register as several rows, one per parcel it touches; rows sharing the same date and price are counted as one sale, so each sale is counted once even when it covers several parcels. Every figure rests on transactions checked one by one before entering any average. The register records asset deals only: transactions in company form (SCI) never appear, and properties of this rank commonly trade that way, so the register understates this market's true depth. Recorded built and land areas may cover only part of a property; no price per square metre is printed. The cadastre's current section numbering here dates from 2016–2017; sales registered under the older references cannot be matched to these sections, so 2014 and 2015 show almost no deeds and the series is effectively complete from 2016. The figures were recalculated in July 2026 on the perimeter above and on the qualified villa register; earlier editions used a slightly wider basis and printed higher counts. The tax administration publishes the register in instalments: the 2025 figures run to the end of the year as published so far, and sales registered late will be added in a later edition.

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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