Zone-level villa market analytics for the French Riviera, computed from France's official DVF transaction records: sales volumes, totals and median prices in the €3M+ segment, 2016–2025.
This page publishes zone-level analytics of the French Riviera villa market, computed directly from DVF (« Demandes de Valeurs Foncières »), the official transaction register of France's Direction générale des Finances publiques. Figures cover villa (maison) sales of €3 million and above, 2016–2025, in the Alpes-Maritimes (06) and Var (83).
Methodology: transactions are de-duplicated at estate level (multi-parcel sales grouped by commune, date and price); market zones are defined at commune — and where relevant, cadastral-section — level; medians are used rather than means, which outliers distort. Analysis: Elena Agueeva. Data updates follow each half-yearly DVF release.
Saint-Tropez is the Riviera's deepest €3M+ villa market by a wide margin: 389 estate sales totalling €3.22 billion over the decade (DVF 2016–2025), ahead of its own peninsula neighbours and every Alpes-Maritimes zone.
The section-level pockets tell a different story from their host communes: the Cap d'Antibes and the gated hills of La Californie trade less often but far higher — the premium the commune-wide figures dilute.
Median prices in the €3M+ segment are remarkably stable across the decade in most zones — volume, not price level, is where the market cycle shows.
Saint-Tropez, with 389 recorded villa sales of €3M or more between 2016 and 2025, totalling €3.22 billion (DVF, estate-deduplicated).
DVF (« Demandes de Valeurs Foncières ») is the French state's official register of property transactions, published by the Direction générale des Finances publiques; it records the price, date, parcel and property type of each sale.
Cap-d'Ail, where the median €3M+ villa sale over 2016–2025 was €10.0 million (DVF) — the highest of any commune in the Alpes-Maritimes or Var.