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Buy or rent in Paris 2e Arrondissement

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
€3,148
Owning per month
€3,691

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Starting from the median sale price of apartments, €11,211/m², and the asking rent of an apartment, €35.0/m² a month with charges (2025), in Paris 2e Arrondissement, 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
€3,148
Owning a month, not recovered
€3,691
Interest
€2,422
Running costs
€841
Return given up
€429
Cash out a month, if buying
€4,768

Gross rental yield in Paris 2e Arrondissement

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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PeriodParis 2e Arrondissement
20253.8%
20243.8%
20233.4%
20223.2%

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 Paris 2e Arrondissement

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €1,008,990. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €3,927 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.

Payment, two incomes
62%
Payment, one income
124%

Figures for Paris: Paris 2e Arrondissement has no reliable figures of its own.

53.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
1,342

In 2022 the population fell by 586 while 3 homes were started.

Homes started, 2022
3
Population change, 2022
−586

13.9% of the 17,363 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2023 census
13.9%
Empty homes
2,414