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CimiezApartments for sale, price per m² and neighbourhood life
The winterers’ hill, from the Régina to the Roman arena.
Life here
Cimiez
By La Gazette de la Promenade
Cimiez is a hill you climb, and the higher you go the quieter it becomes. The avenues are wide and planted, lined with Belle Époque palaces; the city stays below, with its noise.
This is where the winterers built their grand hotels, long since converted into residences. The Régina is the flagship: Matisse lived and worked there. The quarter keeps from that era its tall entrance halls, its gardens, a way of taking one's time.
Daily life gathers around the gardens: the arenas and Roman ruins of Cemenelum, the Musée Matisse in its red villa, the olive grove where families settle on Sundays, the monastery and its gardens turned towards the city.
On the market side, Cimiez shows a median price of €6,390 per m² for the first half of 2026. Buyers come for the large apartments in the Belle Époque palaces, the high ceilings, the calm and the trees. Properties change hands slowly: one settles in Cimiez to stay.
The district in figures
5 625€/m²
Median price per m²
+3 %
Since 2024
30min on foot
To the sea
18min 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
111 flats changed hands in 2025, measured on: boulevard de Cimiez, avenue des Arènes de Cimiez, avenue Michel de Cimiez, rue Plaine de Cimiez.
- Median price per m²
- 5,625 €/m²
- Range of half the sales
- 4,500 – 6,824 €/m²
- Median sale price
- 371,000 €
- Median surface
- 72 m²
- Median since 2024
- +2.9%
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.
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Have your property valuedFrequently asked questions
- What is the price per m² in Cimiez?
- The median price is €5,625 per m² in 2025, across 111 flat sales (DVF sale deeds).
- Why live in Cimiez?
- For the calm of a leafy residential hill, set back from the front de mer. Cimiez keeps its Belle Époque setting, from the Régina, where Matisse lived, to the Roman arenas.
- What kind of buildings are found in Cimiez?
- Belle Époque palaces converted into flats, such as the Régina, and residences set in gardens. The Roman arenas recall the hill's older history.
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