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Buy or rent in Megève

Renting a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than owning it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at apartments' median sale price; rent is the asking rent. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
€1,891
Owning per month
€3,076

Try your own numbers

Starting from the median sale price of apartments, €9,342/m², and the asking rent of an apartment, €21.0/m² a month with charges (2025), in Megève, and a mortgage rate of 3.2%.

Assumptions
90
3.2
1
Property tax (taxe foncière), insurance, maintenance and co-ownership charges.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Notary fees and transfer duties, paid once.

Renting costs less each month than owning.

Rent a month
€1,891
Owning a month, not recovered
€3,076
Interest
€2,018
Running costs
€701
Return given up
€357
Cash out a month, if buying
€3,973

Gross rental yield in Megève

A year's asking rent as a share of the sale price, apartments, for each year the rent map was published. Higher means rent is dear compared with buying.

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PeriodMegève
20252.6%
20242.7%
20232.0%
20222.3%

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are asking rents with charges included, from the ANIL rent map, so they run a little above what tenants pay in rent alone, and the yield reads a little high.

Other reports for Megève

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €883,350. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €3,438 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.

Payment, two incomes
70%
Payment, one income
140%

Figures for Haute-Savoie: Megève has no reliable figures of its own.

19.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
8,917

In 2022 the population fell by 34 while 128 homes were started.

Homes started, 2022
128
Population change, 2022
−34

1.0% of the 9,429 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2023 census
1.0%
Empty homes
90

In 2025, 48% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.

Homes in existing buildings, 2025
48%

Public bodies signed €716.3K of housing works here in 2025, and €845.8K since 2024.

Signed in 2025
€716.3K
Per resident, 2025
€248