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Buy or rent in Sceaux

Owning a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than renting 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
€2,237
Owning per month
€2,009

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Starting from the median sale price of apartments, €6,102/m², and the asking rent of an apartment, €24.9/m² a month with charges (2025), in Sceaux, 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.

Owning costs less each month than renting.

Rent a month
€2,237
Owning a month, not recovered
€2,009
Interest
€1,318
Running costs
€458
Return given up
€233
Cash out a month, if buying
€2,595

Gross rental yield in Sceaux

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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PeriodSceaux
20255.1%
20244.9%
20234.1%
20223.9%

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 Sceaux

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €571,320. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €2,224 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.

Payment, two incomes
33%
Payment, one income
66%

Figures for Hauts-de-Seine: Sceaux has no reliable figures of its own.

2.7% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
12,666

In 2022 the population grew by 144 while 114 homes were started: 1.3 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2022
1.3
Population change, 2022
+144

4.9% of the 9,897 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2023 census
4.9%
Empty homes
484

In 2025, 86% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.

Homes in existing buildings, 2025
86%