The Paris of great institutions. The Palais Brongniart, the Richelieu library, Haussmann façades — and apartments you cannot see from the street.
The Bourse quarter corresponds, near enough, to the administrative quarter of Vivienne. It is organised around the Palais Brongniart, completed in 1826 to house the Paris stock exchange, and the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque nationale. This is the Paris of the great nineteenth-century institutions: wide avenues cut under the Second Empire, regular façades, tall carriage doors.
The market here is Haussmann and discreet. Buildings are often mixed — offices on the principal floors, homes above — and many commercial floors have been converted into apartments over the past twenty years. The median price for the 2nd is €11,128/sqm according to DVF DGFIP data; the Bourse quarter sits around that median, with a clear premium for high floors, running balconies and open views over the square.
METROREALTY has followed this area for 22 years. Our office, at 18 rue Molière, is a five-minute walk from rue Vivienne. Supply turns over slowly here: a good number of properties change hands without ever being advertised.
The square of the Palais Brongniart and its Corinthian colonnade. First-rank Haussmann buildings, open views, generous ceiling heights. Apartments overlooking the square are rare and trade above the arrondissement median.
The spine of the quarter, from the Bourse to the Richelieu library. The galerie Vivienne and the galerie Colbert open onto it. Antiquarian booksellers, coin dealers, discreet restaurants. One of the most sought-after addresses in the 2nd for a main residence.
Wide and straight, cut under Haussmann. Well-built investment buildings, lifts, apartments made for entertaining. Noisy on the street side, very quiet on the courtyard — the price difference between the two aspects is real.
Between the place des Victoires and the Bourse, lined with sober nineteenth-century buildings. Few shops, little through traffic: one of the quietest streets in the 2nd, and that is exactly what its residents come for.
The western edge, running alongside the Richelieu site of the national library. Older buildings, a few private mansions, galleries and antique dealers. Being next to the 1st arrondissement pulls prices upward.
In front of the basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, a small square away from the flow. Modest older buildings, a village feel. Rarely on the market, and much sought after.
The Bourse quarter is a market of family and entertaining apartments: three- to five-room Haussmann flats, double reception rooms, sometimes with a former maid's room attached. That is what sets it apart from Montorgueil, which is a market of small units. Three things make the value: the floor, the view — open over the square or not — and the condition of the building, often old and costly to maintain. The 3.5% fall across the 2nd over the year has reopened room to negotiate.
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« On the place de la Bourse, the finest apartments cannot be seen from the street. »METROREALTY — real estate agency, 18 rue Molière, Paris 1st
Supply turns over slowly and part of the market never reaches an advertisement: being known to the local agencies counts as much as the financing. METROREALTY follows the buildings of the quarter one by one — works voted, façade restoration to come, office lots that may revert to residential use — and presents properties before they go online.
View our propertiesA Haussmann apartment near the Bourse sells on three arguments: the floor, the view and the state of the building. We value on the real transactions in your own street, prepare the co-ownership file in advance — which is what saves three weeks — and present the property to a French and international clientele built over twenty-two years.
Value my propertyThe median price for the 2nd arrondissement is €11,128/sqm according to DVF DGFIP data, across 388 transactions, within a range of €7,904 to €15,000/sqm. The Bourse quarter sits around that median, with a premium for high floors and open views over the square.
Rue Vivienne for its character and its arcades, the place de la Bourse for the views, rue de la Banque and the place des Petits-Pères for quiet. Rue du Quatre-Septembre offers fine proportions, provided you aim for a courtyard aspect.
Very, in the evening and at weekends: this is a quarter of offices and institutions, and it empties after seven. During the day the avenues cut under Haussmann — Quatre-Septembre, Réaumur — carry traffic. The inner streets stay quiet at any hour.
Yes, and that is what sets this area apart from the rest of the 2nd. Its Haussmann buildings offer three- to five-room flats with double reception rooms, which Montorgueil and the Sentier provide only exceptionally. Some lots are the result of office conversions.
The average price in the 2nd is €11,180/sqm at the end of 2025, down 3.5% year on year. The average time to sell remains short — 52 days — which points to a market that negotiates rather than one that stops. In practice, the gap between the asking price and the signed price has reopened.
Yes. Bourse and Quatre-Septembre (line 3), Grands Boulevards (lines 8 and 9) and Pyramides (lines 7 and 14) are all within five minutes on foot. Line 14 puts Saint-Lazare and the Gare de Lyon less than ten minutes away.
Yes. Our office is at 18 rue Molière, a five-minute walk from rue Vivienne and the Palais Brongniart. We follow the buildings of the quarter continuously, including properties that are never advertised.
Whether you are looking for a Haussmann apartment on rue Vivienne or selling a reception flat on the place de la Bourse, METROREALTY knows the buildings of the quarter. An agent replies within 24 hours.
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