District of Nice
Carré d'OrApartments for sale, price per m² and neighbourhood life
400 metres between the sea and the plane trees.
Life here
Carré d'Or
By La Gazette de la Promenade
The Carré d'Or fits within a rectangle you can cross on foot in five minutes: the Promenade to the south, boulevard Victor-Hugo to the north, and between the two, streets that run straight down to the sea. This is the Nice of 1900 buildings: white cornices, shutters, mosaic lobbies. The ground floors are shared between galleries, practices and a few restaurants that do not shout.
Local life starts at the Buffa market on rue de la Buffa. You shop there in the morning, you run into your neighbours, and the afternoon belongs to the café terraces of rue de France. The sea is never an expedition: four hundred metres at most, the time it takes to walk down in sandals.
The Negresco, standing on the Promenade since 1913, acts as the district's lighthouse. In the evening the light comes from the west and runs along the façades. That is when the Carré d'Or looks most like its name.
Market-wise, the district remains the centre’s reference: étages nobles with high ceilings, top floors with terraces, few mediocre flats. Decent properties go quickly; the best ones often never appear online.
The district in figures
6 732€/m²
Median price per m²
-2 %
Since 2024
5min on foot
To the sea
14min on foot
To the station
Median price per m² of flat sales in 2025, from the sale deeds (DVF, French public finance directorate), measured on the landmark streets of each district.
What the sale deeds say
72 flats changed hands in 2025, measured on: rue Masséna, rue du Maréchal Joffre, rue Gioffredo, rue de l'Hôtel des Postes, rue Paradis.
- Median price per m²
- 6,732 €/m²
- Range of half the sales
- 5,283 – 8,250 €/m²
- Median sale price
- 322,500 €
- Median surface
- 55 m²
- Median since 2024
- -2.3%
For comparison, the median for Nice is 4,855 €/m² across 7,262 sales.
Source: DVF, French public finance directorate (data.gouv.fr). Sales of a single flat, 1 January to 31 December 2025. DVF does not record the neighbourhood: the calculation covers the streets listed, a benchmark rather than the average of the whole neighbourhood. Other surveys, such as the Maison Masséna study, cover a different scope and give different levels.
Selling
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Have your property valuedFrequently asked questions
- What is the price per m² in the Carré d'Or?
- The median price is €6,732 per m² in 2025, across 72 flat sales (DVF sale deeds).
- Why buy in the Carré d'Or?
- The quartier is a rectangle laid out around 1900 between the Promenade des Anglais and Boulevard Victor-Hugo. Daily life happens on foot, between the rue de la Buffa market and the sea.
- Is the Carré d'Or close to the sea?
- Yes. The quartier borders the Promenade des Anglais; the sea is about 400 metres from its centre.
Seen in La Gazette
Carré d'Or
Buying on the Riviera
American buyers on the French Riviera: what no one tells you before you sign
No title insurance, no escrow, no buyer's agent: buying property in the South of France looks nothing like an American purchase. And your passport adds three obligations no other foreign buyer carries.
By Garen Ajderhanyan, 9 min read
Carré d'Or
Riviera property market
Where can you negotiate in Nice? Asking prices versus prices actually paid
The Maison Masséna study separates the price at which properties are offered from the price at which they actually sell, district by district and by property type. The gap runs from zero to twenty-three per cent.
By Garen Ajderhanyan, 8 min read
Carré d'Or
International
Turkish owners in Nice: visas, stays, and life on the ground
Buying is the easy part. What takes method, as a Turkish national, is coming home: a Schengen visa remains compulsory, the ninety-day rule applies, and owning a flat exempts you from nothing.
By Garen Ajderhanyan, 8 min read
La Gazette, 2005
Stories of the Promenade
Since 2005: twenty years publishing La Gazette
On 6 May 2005, my father printed the first issue. Twenty years later, I hold the layout. What La Gazette has learnt from the Promenade, and the reverse.
By Garen Ajderhanyan, 6 min read
Carré d'Or
The art of living
Where to live in Nice according to your project?
Pied-à-terre facing the sea, family relocation, retirement, rental investment: Nice is not chosen on a price map but on use. Garen Ajderhanyan reviews the city, district by district, project by project.
By Garen Ajderhanyan, 6 min read
Carré d'Or
Architecture & Heritage
What is the étage noble, and why does it hold its value?
High ceilings, a continuous balcony, light: the principal floor of Belle Époque buildings has lost none of its logic. Definition, history and how to read a façade, from the Carré d'Or to the Promenade des Anglais.
By Garen Ajderhanyan, 6 min read
