“What is Dijon worth?” It is the title of a book which has just been published. Two authors looked at the real estate value of the capital of the Dukes of Burgundy. Monuments, buildings, houses, everything is scrutinized. But some specialists are very critical of the objective of this study.
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29 million euros for the bank of France! 8.5 million for the Grand Théâtre! Tens of millions of euros for churches… These somewhat unreal figures are taken from a book: “What is Dijon worth”. It is written by Patrice de Moncan, historian and economist, and Jean-François Buet, real estate agent in Dijon. The book was presented this Thursday, October 1 in Dijon, in the presence of the mayor of the city, François Rebsamen.
The 31,416 buildings in Dijon have been combed through as Patrice de Moncan explains. “In each of the eleven sectors of Dijon, we identify the number of homes with different values. We add it up and there we have about 24 billion euros. “ The same calculation was made for the 500,000 square meters of Dijon office (around one billion euros) and for the 11,000 shops (another billion euros). Result: 26 billion euros.
For comparison, Paris is estimated at 700 billion euros (27 times more!). But Dijon is quite close to Bordeaux or Strasbourg. The city is also showing some wisdom in its real estate market. “In Dijon, the price per square meter is quite reasonable, explains Patrice de Moncan. There are no big fluctuations. It’s a bit the same in Bordeaux. On the other hand, in Paris, you will have much stronger values but with terrible ups and downs. In 1992, real estate in Paris collapsed. It took 10 years to find the same values. In Dijon, Bordeaux or Strasbourg, we still have consistency. “ Something to reassure perhaps the 33,534 owners of Dijon.
It is useless, if not to advertise this or that person
But this figure of 26 billion euros does not make people happy. Like Jean Perrin, the president of the national union of property owners of Côte d’Or. “This figure scares me a little. First, because Dijon will never be for sale. It is completely fictitious. If all of Dijon were for sale, it wouldn’t be worth anything. It scares me especially because when the elected officials move heaven and earth to find a billion here or there, they say to themselves, here we are, we are going to tax real estate. “
For this real estate specialist, it is better to turn to the official sites. “I don’t really like this kind of fictional study. It is useless, if not to advertise to such and such a person. If we want to know how much a property is worth in Dijon, there is a tax website that tells you what transactions took place street by street and at what price. Notaries also have a site. And it is updated. “
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