The 20 best-rated places to buy in France
Ranked on the balanced profile: climate and risk, local vitality, amenities and access, property value, and the market — weighted as a buyer with no single overriding priority would weight them.
- Drawn
- Jul 31, 2026
- Ranked from
- 5,137 municipalities
- Excluded, provisional
- 282
- Scoring model
- 2026.12-momentum-v1
| # | Municipality | Province | Population | Overall score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Livry-sur-Seine | Seine-et-Marne | 2,207 | 84/100 | A+ |
| 2 | Plouguenast-Langast | Côtes-d'Armor | 2,429 | 81/100 | A+ |
| 3 | Hendaye | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 17,621 | 80/100 | A+ |
| 4 | Grosseto-Prugna | Corse-du-Sud | 3,398 | 79/100 | A |
| 4 | San-Nicolao | Haute-Corse | 2,037 | 79/100 | A |
| 4 | Cervione | Haute-Corse | 2,182 | 79/100 | A |
| 4 | Biarritz | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 25,885 | 79/100 | A |
| 8 | Châteauneuf-Grasse | Alpes-Maritimes | 3,690 | 78/100 | A |
| 8 | Bidart | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 7,224 | 78/100 | A |
| 8 | Saint-Thibéry | Hérault | 2,875 | 78/100 | A |
| 8 | Callac | Côtes-d'Armor | 2,233 | 78/100 | A |
| 8 | Agde | Hérault | 29,201 | 78/100 | A |
| 8 | Rostrenen | Côtes-d'Armor | 3,132 | 78/100 | A |
| 8 | Tosse | Landes | 3,308 | 78/100 | A |
| 8 | Urrugne | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 10,495 | 78/100 | A |
| 16 | Le Castellet | Var | 4,578 | 77/100 | A |
| 16 | Pluméliau-Bieuzy | Morbihan | 4,341 | 77/100 | A |
| 16 | Callian | Var | 3,498 | 77/100 | A |
| 16 | Labenne | Landes | 6,934 | 77/100 | A |
| 16 | Fréjus | Var | 55,750 | 77/100 | A |
What this table leaves out, and why
- 282 municipalities were dropped for a provisional grade. Where one of the five pillars has no data for a town, the site fills it with a neutral value and marks the grade provisional. That is fair on the town's own page, where the marker is visible. In a ranking it is not: a town competing on two measured pillars and three neutral ones would place on the strength of what we do not know about it.
- 29,469 were below the population floor of 2,000 inhabitants. Percentile scores are unstable where a single amenity or a single housing development moves the whole figure, and those places sort to the top of an ungated list.
- Tied towns share a rank. Scores are published as whole numbers and they saturate at the top of a table, so several towns here hold the same score and therefore the same position. Where a tie has to be broken to fit twenty rows, it is broken alphabetically — which is arbitrary, and is why the rank is shared rather than invented.
- The ranking is within France, not across Europe. Each pillar is a percentile against that country's own distribution, so a Spanish 80 and an Italian 80 are two statements about two different populations. Pooling them would rank countries, not towns.
- This is a municipality, not a house. Everything here describes the place — its climate, its hazards, its services, its market. It says nothing about any individual property in it.
Computed under scoring model 2026.12-momentum-v1. A ranking published under a different model version is not directly comparable with this one — the weights or the inputs changed, so a town moving between two editions may be the model moving rather than the town.
Using it
Free to reproduce, in whole or in part, with attribution to Terragrado and a link to this page or to the methodology. The CSV carries the same rows plus the edition, the model version and a link to each town's page, so a reader can check any line of it.
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