The centre of Megève village: prices, addresses, art de vivre — the ARES guide.
The village centre forms, with the Mont d’Arbois, the top of the Megève market: apartments trade between €8,000 and €21,000 per m², chalets from €12,000 to over €25,000 per m² for exceptional properties — rare transactions — up more than 30% over five years (ARES ranges, detailed on our market page). The centre’s value holds in two words: everything on foot. The pedestrian village, its shops, its restaurants, the ski departures and year-round life — without depending on a car. To that use value adds an absolute land scarcity: the centre’s fabric is built out, and supply renews only through succession.
Why is the village centre, with the Mont d’Arbois, the top of the market?
The centre of Megève has remained a village: pedestrian streets around the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the village square, horse-drawn carriages, shops and galleries — an authentic setting no purpose-built resort can reproduce. Life unfolds on foot, winter and summer: restaurants, historic hotels, the Palais des sports, ski departures. It is this combination — authenticity, daily car-free use, year-round life — that supports prices, driven as on the Mont d’Arbois by a more international clientele: the two sectors are the only ones in Megève up more than 30% over five years.
Prices per square metre in the village centre
| Type | 2026 range | 5-year trend |
|---|---|---|
| Apartment | €8,000 – €21,000 /m² | strong rise (>30%) |
| Chalet | €12,000 – >€25,000 /m²* | strong rise (>30%) |
* Exceptional village-centre chalets, rare transactions.
The width reflects the diversity of the built stock: between an apartment to renovate in a 1960s building and a turnkey apartment at a pedestrian address, the market is not the same. As for the centre’s chalets, their scarcity makes their price: very few change hands, and the most sought-after exceed €25,000 per m². That is the object of our ABC method — prices Achieved, Benchmarked, Calibrated — applied address by address.
What you actually find in the centre
The centre is an apartment market: high-end residences, characterful properties above the shops, apartments in old village buildings. Chalets are the exception — a few addresses on the immediate edge of the pedestrian heart, and converted old farmhouses. This structure of supply explains the prices: demand targets a perimeter of a few hundred metres, in which nothing more is built.
Skiing from the centre
The village has its own ski departures: the Chamois gondola in the heart of the village and Rochebrune a few minutes’ walk away, with the link to the Côte 2000 and the rest of the Évasion Mont-Blanc ski area. In the evening you walk back to the centre, skis on your shoulder — a use only a handful of addresses in the resort allow.
Off-market in the village centre
In the centre, addresses are recognisable above all others — which is precisely why discretion is often a condition of the sale. 60% of the ARES portfolio is sold off-market, and centre properties appear in it regularly. Watching only the listings means, here too, seeing only part of the market.
ARES and the centre
Our office, on the route Edmond de Rothschild, is a few minutes from the village — and the centre is, with the Mont d’Arbois, one of the two sectors we follow transaction by transaction. The Geneva office completes the arrangement for the Lake Geneva and international clientele.
A project in the village centre — acquisition, sale or confidential valuation: we reply within 24 hours.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the price per m² of an apartment in the centre of Megève?
- Between €8,000 and €21,000 per m² in 2026, depending on address, condition and finish (ARES ranges). The centre’s chalets, rare, trade from €12,000 to over €25,000 per m² for exceptional properties.
- Can you ski from the village centre?
- Yes: the Chamois gondola leaves from the heart of the village and Rochebrune is a few minutes’ walk away, with the link to the Côte 2000.
- Why are there so few chalets in the centre?
- The fabric of the pedestrian heart is built out and renews only through succession; chalets are the exception there, which is why the most sought-after exceed €25,000 per m².
- Do centre properties sell off-market?
- Often: centre addresses being recognisable above all others, discretion is frequently a condition of the sale. Access goes through ARES’s register of buyers.