Are you considering purchasing an apartment in Paris’ 7th arrondissement?
Need some insight before diving in? Quality of life, neighborhood specifics, housing distribution, and guidance from your apartment hunter…
This guide provides everything you need to know about this area.
This is the second most expensive arrondissement in the capital. Your Paris real estate expert recommends the area around the Ecole Militaire, where prices are a little more reasonable.
Between the highly “institutional” Invalides arrondissement, with its many ministries and embassies, and the Gros Caillou arrondissement with its many local shops, this arrondissement, with its diversity of habitats, boasts some of the finest townhouses and buildings in Paris. It is also the most affluent arrondissement in Paris.
On the edge of the 15th arrondissement, the Champ-de-Mars offers a green space much appreciated by local residents. The Ecole Militaire arrondissement, with its wide, quiet arteries, offsets the hustle and bustle of rue Saint Dominique and its surrounding narrow streets. Many cultural establishments enliven this area: museums (including the famous Musée d’Orsay, bordering the south of Paris’s 1st arrondissement), libraries and live performances. Public transport services are coherent in the east for a central arrondissement, but more disparate in the west.
52 500 residents
€42 500 of median income, the highest of Paris
54% are under 45, the lowest rate in Paris along with the 16th arrondissement
21% 5P and over, the highest percentage after the 8th arrondissement
38%
are homeowners
54%
are under 45 years old
54%
have lived here for nine years or less
43%
are families
Construction Years
Number of Rooms
From the 18th century onwards, the area became increasingly residential, before being incorporated into the Fermiers Généraux estate. Numerous renowned monuments shed light on its development. The first of these is the “Hôtel des Invalides”, whose construction was ordered by Louis XIV in 1670 to provide invalid soldiers with a place where they could receive help and assistance. In addition to a church, the Hôtel included a factory (uniform), a hospice, and a hospital. The capture of Les Invalides by the people in 1789, with its 32,000 rifles and 27 cannons, was used to capture the Bastille. The Hôtel was later rehabilitated by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Numerous private mansions housed the Republic’s major ministries. Among them, in the 6th arrondissement, the Hôtel de Matignon at 57 rue de Varenne was built in 1722. Following the Second World War, it became a place of power, and remains the official residence of the head of government under the Fifth Republic. Finally, the Paris World Fairs of the 19th century bequeathed the arrondissement with a substantial heritage. First and foremost, the Eiffel Tower became the emblematic building of France abroad. Numerous bridges were also inaugurated on these occasions (Iéna, Alma, Invalides…), including the Pont Alexandre III, designed to symbolize Franco-Russian friendship in 1900.
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