Real estate specialist company MeilleursAgents.com has released its 2024 report on prices per square meter at winter sports resorts. In the Pyrenees, Saint-Lary excels but the massif has much lower prices than the other French mountains.
Many factors are taken into consideration to provide an estimate of the price per square meter of homes. And 700 hectares of ski area up to 2,800 meters above sea level, 100 km of slopes, 59 slopes (11 black, 15 red, 26 blue, 7 green) and the resulting maintenance, two cable cars to connect the station in the village, the 4 seasons offers and direct access to Spain, all this affects the price.
It is therefore at the top of the stations where the m² are most expensive in the Pyrenees, ahead of Les Angles in the Pyrenees Orientales with its €3,381/m² and in Cauterets, another station in the Hautes-Pyrénées, where the m² is estimated at €3,224. These three locations are well ahead of the rest of the group as Font-Romeu, also in the Pyrenees Orientales, is at €2,815/m² and the third Bigourdane location in the top five, Luz Ardiden, is at €2,807/m².
As the Hautes-Pyrénées is the department with the largest number of ski resorts, it is no surprise to find many of its resorts in the top positions.
Far behind the Alps
In the Pyrenees, the average price per m² in resorts is around 2,669 euros, again according to MeilleursAgents.com, an increase of 1.2% compared to 2023 (the increase was around 7% between 2022 and 2023).
An average still well below the average prices of the Alps with €6,608/m² in the Northern Alps, where places such as Val d’Isère, Courchevel and Méribel have prices well above €10,000/m², and €3,563/m² in the South Alps.
The Pyrenees are even behind the Jura and its €3,229/m², a massif that benefits from its proximity to the north of France and the capital. No resort in the Pyrenees is among the 20 most expensive resorts in France.