according to a study, it is interesting to invest in these two towns in Essonne

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While the prices of houses and apartments are falling, interest rates are falling and the conditions for granting bank loans are becoming more flexible, this end of the year marks the beginning of an improvement in real estate investment, in particularly for medium-sized towns. This is the point of view of Slowly. immo who draws up a prize list of the cities of 30,000 to 60,000 inhabitants where he is good to invest in a rental accommodation. Two municipalities in Essonne feature prominently.

Massy and Palaiseau well ranked

According to the study by the company specializing in the research, purchase and rental management of properties, the towns of Massy and Palaiseau rank 4ᵉ and 5ᵉ of this ranking behind municipalities located around Nantes, Lyon, Bordeaux, but ahead of Les Sables-d'Olonne, Fréjus and Saint-Malo.

Less expensive than large cities, medium-sized towns can offer a balance between affordable prices and sustained rental demandaccording to Maslow. immo which has seen the attractiveness of these cities, until now less popular, “explode” thanks to the health crisis and the massive use of teleworking, but also the development of new urban planning projects.

“Rental demand is growing strongly there, and in a favorable market context, as with the drop in credit rates, today's tenants are tomorrow's buyers, thus reinforcing the attractiveness of these areas,” underlines Pierre-Emmanuel Jus, deputy director of the Lyon-based company, in a press release.

“Enjoy the advantages of a big city, without the disadvantages”

However, all medium-sized cities are not worth each other in terms of rental investment strategy.

As in any real estate project, the localisation remains the key to success.

It is therefore advisable to invest in a dynamic intermediate-sized municipality, in order to allow tenants to benefit from the advantages of a large city (jobs, amenities, cultural activities) without suffering the disadvantages (cost of living, congestion, stress).

Municipalities scrutinized according to four criteria

However, location is far from being the only criterion which should guide the purchase of a property for the company which, to establish its classification, relied on four criteria : the employment concentration index, the share of vacant housing, the average change in the population and the number of authorized housing units in relation to the population of the municipality.

In this game, the two cities of the Paris-Saclay agglomeration community, both located around twenty kilometers from the capital, are doing well and could well focus investor interestin the coming weeks.

The desire for “cheaper, quieter and more spacious” housing

“In many intermediate-sized municipalities, the market is racingunder the influence of a growing tendency of households to move away from large cities and to target cheaper, quieter and more spacious housing,” we observe at Maslow. immo.

This dynamism had a impact on purchasing power per m²but the resistance of the real estate market can still be taken advantage of by investors looking for the best compromise between entry ticket and profitability, or an interesting capital gain potential with the prospect of resale.

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