Real estate trends

Overall, the average price of apartments is about 1,600 € per m² in Maine-et-Loire (1,200 € in Saumur and Cholet, 2,000 € in Angers). According to La Vie immobilière, houses go for around 180,000 €. There is an abundance of properties to restore: townhouses and barns to convert to lofts, starting at 75,000 €, executive homes starting at 170,000 €. Contemporary custom-designed houses start at 400,000 €, while a beautiful bourgeois home will cost at least 500,000 €.

Traditional housing

White Saumur tuffeau, Trélazé blue slate, red clay bricks from the Rairies… Maine-et-Loire has drawn on its natural resources to build its homes. The department is also home to largest number of cave dwellings in Europe: this bargain housing, in a range of shapes, is becoming 'trendy" and highly sought after.

Location

Angers is located about 300 km from Paris (1 hour and 30 minutes by TGV), halfway between Tours and Nantes. Its airport serves a number of destinations in Europe (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, etc.) and Great Britain (Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, etc., via Southampton).

Scenery and activities

A garden spot, Anjou has majestic forests and charming hedged farmlands, with, hither and yon, splendid green spaces attesting to the richness of its soil: the physic garden in Chenillé, with 800 medicinal species, the festival of roses in Doué-la-Fountaine, and the Japanese garden in Malévrier. Maine-et-Loire also has the largest vineyard of Touraine and, right outside Angers, the Cointreau distillerie.

As for cultural heritage, the department boasts 1,200 châteaux and historical residences: the fortress of Angers, with the tapestry of the Apocalypse, and the châteaux of Saumur, Brissac, and Montsoreau, dear to Alexandre Dumas. The abbey of Fontevrault was one of the largest monastic communities in the Christian world.

Along with its cave dwellings, hundreds of wind- and watermills have been meticulously restored.

Weather

Anjou comes by its mild climate naturally. Maine-et-Loire enjoys a mainly maritime climate, but the eastern part of the department comes close to Touraine's continental climate. The Saumur area has the sunniest days and highest temperatures in summer. It rarely freezes near the banks of the Loire.

In town

• Angers: A young (40% of its population is under 30), university-centered city, the 17th commune of France claims 150,000 inhabitants, with 260,000 in the entire metropolitan area.
• Saumur: the white city, built entirely of tuffeau, is famed throughout the world for its Cadre noir, the famed military cavalry school. It is also the leading French producer and processor of mushrooms and sparkling wines.

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