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Toulouse is the aerospace capital and one of the fastest-growing large French cities — brick, not Haussmann, and student demand that never switches off.

Notaire-verified path
DPE & diagnostics
3D map
≈7%acquisition costs on an existing home
2contracts: compromis, then acte authentique
10 daysstatutory buyer cooling-off (loi SRU)
DPE A–Genergy label required in every file
What a purchase really costs

€400,000 home in Toulouse

Droits de mutation (DMTO) (5.8%)
€23,200
Émoluments du notaire (≈0.8%)
€3,200
Formalités & débours (≈0.4%)
€1,600
Cash needed at the notaire
€428,000

≈ +7% over the price. Roughly +7% on an existing home — that is the famous frais de notaire, most of which is departmental tax rather than the notaire’s fee. A new-build runs nearer 2–3% because VAT is already inside the price. Several départements, Paris included, applied the 2025 uplift toward ~6.3% DMTO — confirm the rate on your acte, not on a blog post.

Rentals run on rules

The rent side, in three lines

  • Deposit caps at one month’s rent unfurnished and two months furnished (loi du 6 juillet 1989).
  • Encadrement des loyers fixes a reference rent per m² in Paris, Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Marseille — a lease above it is challengeable.
  • A DPE rating of G has been barred from new lettings since 2025 and F follows in 2028 — the energy label is a rentability test, not a sticker.

Qualitative anchors only. Live reference rents come from the préfecture’s published grid, never a hardcoded table.

Cities

Six metros, one notarial machine

The deed is national; the money is not. DMTO is voted département by département, and rent control only bites in the designated zones tendues. Each city guide carries its own number.

Airbus and its supply chain anchor the employment base, with a large university population on top. That combination supports small-unit long-let far more reliably than tourism does.

The centre is compact and constrained; Compans-Caffarelli, Saint-Cyprien and the Canal du Midi belts absorb most of the professional demand. The third metro line under construction is a real location variable with a real completion risk.

FAQ

Is Toulouse a student-let market?
Substantially. Underwrite the summer void and the furnished-lease regime rather than pasting a family-flat model onto a studio.
Does the aerospace cycle matter?
Yes. A single-employer region is a concentration risk. It has been a growth story for two decades, which is not the same as a guarantee.

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