Is ClaireAdresse free?
Yes. Analysing a French address is entirely free and needs no sign-up. The service relies on open public data.
Where does the data come from?
Every figure comes from an official public source: DVF (the tax authority's register of property sales) for prices, ANIL (the national housing information agency) for rents, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition for high-demand housing areas (zone tendue), ADEME (the ecological transition agency) for energy performance certificates (DPE), Géorisques for natural and technological risks, IGN and the Géoportail de l'Urbanisme for plots, the local plan (PLU) and flood-risk prevention zoning, INSEE for population, income, employment and housing, INSEE's permanent database of facilities and OpenStreetMap for shops and local services, transport.data.gouv.fr for transport, Météo-France for climate, the European Environment Agency for air quality, SSMSI (the Interior Ministry's statistical service) for crime, the Interior Ministry for elections, the Ministry of Education for secondary schools, the City of Paris for school catchment areas, and IGN for address search, base maps and historical aerial views. Each figure stays tied to its source and publication date. Only the “In brief” sentences under the section titles are written by a language model: it rewords those same figures and invents none.
Which addresses can I analyse?
Any address in mainland France and in the overseas departments and regions, from a Paris studio to a house in the countryside.
Can I analyse a whole commune?
Yes: type the name of a commune instead of an address. The analysis switches to commune level — price per m² across the commune, population, safety, elections, climate and natural risks. What only makes sense at a precise point then disappears: cadastral plot, PLU zone, shops within walking distance and school catchment. Paris, Lyon and Marseille are the exception: searching for the whole city opens a page listing its arrondissements, because INSEE and the facilities databases only publish their figures arrondissement by arrondissement — an average “Paris” price does not exist in this data. Each arrondissement then has its own page (in French) and its detailed analysis, reachable from “Explore by commune”.
How long does an analysis take?
A few seconds. ClaireAdresse queries the public databases in parallel and brings the results together on an interactive map.
Where can I find the price per m² of sales around an address?
In the Property section. Enter the address: sales recorded in the public DVF database (the last five published years) within one kilometre appear on the map with their price, floor area and date; the median price per m² is taken from the 100 closest.
How can I find the energy rating (DPE) of a home from its address?
Enter the address: the “Energy performance” section lists the certificates recorded by ADEME at that address since July 2021, one per dwelling, with the date, floor area, DPE class, emissions and energy use. In a block of flats, the floor area helps you find a given flat. Each certificate carries its ADEME number, which can be checked on ADEME's DPE observatory.
How can I tell whether an address is in a flood zone?
The Risks section shows, from Géorisques, the address's exposure to river flooding and groundwater flooding, and the map shows the flood-risk prevention plan zones published on the Géoportail de l'Urbanisme. The zoning covers an area: what a home actually suffers depends mostly on its floor and on whether it has a basement.
How can I tell whether a commune is a high-demand housing area (zone tendue)?
The Rents section says so, from the zoning published by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition (decree of 22 December 2025). In a zone tendue, the tenant's notice for an unfurnished let drops to one month and, when the home is re-let, the rent cannot exceed the previous tenant's. A “tourist and high-demand area” only changes local taxation.
Are the prices per m² reliable?
Prices come from the DVF database (Demandes de Valeurs Foncières) published by the French state, which records actual property transactions registered by notaries. The figures are sales that really took place.
Where do the rents come from?
From the « Carte des loyers » published by ANIL (the national housing information agency) and the French Ministry of Housing, estimated from millions of rental listings. They are advertised rents per m², charges included, for unfurnished dwellings, given by commune — and by arrondissement in Paris, Lyon and Marseille — for flats by size and for houses, with a range. In small communes, where listings are scarce, the estimate covers a group of neighbouring communes, and the analysis says so. The rent finally signed may differ from the advertised one.