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In June 2026, Burgundy remains a lower-rent French region, but Dijon, Beaune and the best station or university areas are clearly more expensive.
This guide focuses only on residential rents, so you can quickly understand what a normal landlord or tenant should expect in Burgundy in 2026.
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What are typical rents in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of June 2026, a realistic residential rent in Burgundy is around €11 per m² per month, which means Burgundy is still affordable by French standards, except in the best parts of Dijon and Beaune.
For a simple long-term apartment in Burgundy in 2026, most tenants should expect about €410 per month for a studio, €520 for a 1-bedroom and €650 for a 2-bedroom, with stronger prices in central Dijon, Beaune and the best transport locations.
What's the average monthly rent for a studio in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, the average monthly rent for a standard 25 m² studio in Burgundy is about €410 in local currency, about $470, or €410 in EUR.
In practice, most Burgundy studios rent from about €360 to €520 per month, or about $410 to $590, with the lower end in Nevers, Autun or Le Creusot and the higher end in Dijon or Beaune.
The main reason studio rents vary so much in Burgundy is simple: a small furnished studio near Dijon station, Dijon Université or Beaune centre can rent much faster than an older, poorly insulated studio in a weaker town.
What's the average monthly rent for a 1-bedroom in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, the average monthly rent for a 40 to 45 m² 1-bedroom apartment in Burgundy is about €520 in local currency, about $590, or €520 in EUR.
Most 1-bedroom apartments in Burgundy rent from about €470 to €620 per month, or about $540 to $710, with a wider range when the apartment is furnished, newly renovated or very central.
The cheapest 1-bedroom rents are usually found in Nevers, Autun, Le Creusot and outer parts of Chalon-sur-Saône, while the highest rents are usually in Dijon Hypercentre, Darcy, Victor Hugo, Montchapet and Beaune Centre Historique.
What's the average monthly rent for a 2-bedroom in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, the average monthly rent for a normal 60 to 70 m² 2-bedroom apartment in Burgundy is about €650 in local currency, about $740, or €650 in EUR.
Most 2-bedroom apartments in Burgundy rent from about €520 to €820 per month, or about $590 to $930, depending on the town, building quality, heating costs and exact location.
The cheapest 2-bedroom rents are usually in Le Creusot, Autun and weaker parts of Nevers, while the most expensive ones are in Dijon Hypercentre, Montchapet, Victor Hugo, Beaune Centre Historique and the best parts of Chalon Centre.
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What's the average rent per square meter in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, the average residential rent in Burgundy is about €11 per m² per month in local currency, about $13 per m², or €11 per m² in EUR.
Across Burgundy, a realistic range is about €9 to €18 per m² per month, or about $10 to $21, with rural and weaker towns at the bottom and prime Dijon or Beaune apartments at the top.
Compared with Paris, Lyon or the French Riviera, Burgundy rents are much lower, but Dijon and Beaune still behave like premium local markets rather than cheap rural markets.
In Burgundy, rent per m² usually rises above average when the property is furnished, energy efficient, close to a station or tram, near a university, or located in a walkable historic centre.
How much have rents changed year-over-year in Burgundy in 2026?
As of 2026, average asking rents in Burgundy appear to be up by about 1% to 2% year over year, while existing lease increases are closer to the official IRL rise of 0.78%.
The main drivers in Burgundy this year are not a population boom, but better demand for small city apartments, student rentals, station locations and homes with good energy ratings.
Compared with the previous year, Burgundy rent growth in 2026 looks moderate rather than hot, with Dijon, Beaune and the best student or transit micro-locations doing better than the regional average.
What's the outlook for rent growth in Burgundy in 2026?
As of 2026, our projected rent growth for Burgundy is about 1% to 3% over the rest of the year, with stronger growth in the best small-apartment locations.
The key factors are modest regional growth, ageing housing stock, tighter energy rules, steady student demand in Dijon and strong lifestyle demand in Beaune.
The neighborhoods most likely to see the strongest rent growth are Dijon Hypercentre, Darcy, République, Clémenceau, Université, Beaune Centre Historique, Chalon Centre and station-side parts of Auxerre.
The main risks are weak local incomes, a slower French economy, high renovation costs and a larger supply of older homes that need energy upgrades before tenants will pay higher rents.
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Which neighborhoods rent best in Burgundy as of 2026?
Which neighborhoods have the highest rents in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, the three highest-rent areas in Burgundy are Dijon Hypercentre at about €14 to €18 per m², Beaune Centre Historique at about €14 to €18 per m² and Dijon Victor Hugo or Montchapet at about €13 to €17 per m², which is about $15 to $21 per m².
These Burgundy neighborhoods command premium rents because they combine walkability, shops, restaurants, heritage buildings, train access, good schools or high-income lifestyle demand.
The typical tenants in these high-rent Burgundy neighborhoods are young professionals, executives, doctors, wine-sector workers, international tenants, students with family support and lifestyle renters who value location over size.
By the way, we’ve written a blog article detailing Sources and methodology: we used SeLoger Dijon, SeLoger Beaune and SeLoger Burgundy. We matched city rent premiums with named neighborhoods. We then checked the logic with our own tenant-demand mapping.
Where do young professionals prefer to rent in Burgundy right now?
Young professionals in Burgundy usually prefer Dijon Hypercentre, Darcy and République or Clémenceau, with secondary demand in Beaune Centre, Chalon Centre, Mâcon Centre, Auxerre Centre and Sens Centre.
In these Burgundy neighborhoods, young professionals usually pay about €520 to €850 per month, or about $590 to $970, for a studio, 1-bedroom or compact 2-bedroom apartment.
Young professionals choose these areas because they want a short commute, train access, restaurants, cafés, nightlife, modern interiors and a rental that does not need a car every day.
By the way, you will find a detailed tenant analysis in our property pack covering the real estate market in Burgundy.
Where do families prefer to rent in Burgundy right now?
Families in Burgundy usually prefer Dijon Montchapet, Toison d’Or and Parc-Chevreul, with strong family demand also in Fontaine-lès-Dijon, Talant, Beaune Saint-Nicolas, Chalon Boucicaut and Auxerre Piedalloues.
For 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom apartments in these Burgundy family areas, typical rents are about €700 to €1,100 per month, or about $800 to $1,250, depending on size, parking and condition.
These neighborhoods work well for families because they offer quieter streets, larger homes, green space, parking, schools, supermarkets and easier daily life than very tight historic centres.
Good educational options near these family-friendly Burgundy areas include Dijon’s university ecosystem, local public schools around Montchapet and Toison d’Or, and established school networks in Beaune, Chalon and Auxerre.
Which areas near transit or universities rent faster in Burgundy in 2026?
As of 2026, the fastest-renting transit and university areas in Burgundy are Dijon Université or Mansart, Dijon station or Darcy, and Dijon République or Clémenceau, followed by Auxerre IUT, Le Creusot IUT and central Chalon or Mâcon near the station.
Well-priced small rentals in these high-demand Burgundy areas often stay listed for only 15 to 25 days, while weaker towns or poor-DPE properties can take 35 to 60 days or more.
A property within walking distance of a Burgundy station, tram stop or campus can earn about €40 to €120 more per month, or about $45 to $140, than a similar property in a less convenient area.
Which neighborhoods are most popular with expats in Burgundy right now?
The Burgundy neighborhoods most popular with expats are Dijon Hypercentre, Dijon Darcy or Victor Hugo, and Beaune Centre Historique, with extra interest in Auxerre Centre, Mâcon Centre and wine-route villages near Beaune.
Expats in these Burgundy areas usually pay about €650 to €1,200 per month, or about $740 to $1,370, because many prefer furnished, central and charming apartments.
These Burgundy neighborhoods attract expats because they offer historic streets, wine culture, restaurants, train links, easier daily services and a lifestyle that feels more French than suburban.
The most visible expat groups in Burgundy include British, Belgian, Swiss, Dutch, German, American and international academic or wine-sector residents, especially around Dijon and Beaune.
And if you are also an expat, you may want to read our Sources and methodology: we used Université Bourgogne Europe, SeLoger Beaune and SeLoger Dijon. We linked rent premiums with tourism, wine and international demand. We also used our own expat-demand assumptions.
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Who rents, and what do tenants want in Burgundy right now?
What tenant profiles dominate rentals in Burgundy?
The top tenant profiles in Burgundy are students, young professionals and local working households, with extra demand from wine, tourism, hospital and public-sector workers in the right towns.
As a practical estimate, students represent about 20% to 25% of active rental demand in Burgundy cities, young professionals about 25% to 30%, and families or local working households about 35% to 40%.
Students usually want furnished studios or shared flats, young professionals want studios to 2-bedroom apartments near transport, and families usually want unfurnished 2-bedroom or 3-bedroom homes with parking.
If you want to optimize your cashflow, you can read our Sources and methodology: we used Université Bourgogne Europe, INSEE student data and INSEE regional dossier. We converted demographic signals into practical tenant groups. We then checked the split against our own rental-demand model.
Do tenants prefer furnished or unfurnished in Burgundy?
In Burgundy, about 35% to 40% of active small-apartment tenants prefer furnished rentals, while about 60% to 65% of family and long-term tenants prefer unfurnished rentals.
A furnished Burgundy apartment usually earns about €40 to €100 more per month, or about $45 to $115, than a similar unfurnished apartment, with the highest premium in Dijon and Beaune studios.
Furnished rentals in Burgundy are most popular with students, interns, young professionals, international tenants, wine-sector workers, seasonal workers and people who are not ready to buy furniture.
Which amenities increase rent the most in Burgundy?
The five amenities that raise Burgundy rents the most are a good DPE rating, efficient heating, parking, a modern kitchen or bathroom, and a location near a station, tram or campus.
In practical terms, these amenities can add about €30 to €150 per month each, or about $35 to $170, but the biggest effect comes when several improvements appear in the same apartment.
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What renovations get the best ROI for rentals in Burgundy?
The best ROI renovations in Burgundy are insulation, heating upgrades, double glazing, a clean kitchen or bathroom refresh, and a smart furnished-studio package near Dijon, Beaune or a campus.
A light refresh can cost about €2,000 to €8,000, or about $2,300 to $9,100, and add €30 to €100 per month, while an energy upgrade can cost much more but can protect rentability.
Renovations with poor ROI in Burgundy often include luxury finishes in weak towns, oversized kitchens in small studios, expensive decoration that tenants may damage, and cosmetic work that ignores insulation or heating.
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How strong is rental demand in Burgundy as of 2026?
What's the vacancy rate for rentals in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, the effective private rental vacancy rate in Burgundy is about 5% to 7%, but the figure is lower in the best parts of Dijon and Beaune.
A realistic vacancy range is about 3% to 5% in strong Dijon, Beaune and station areas, about 5% to 8% in Chalon, Mâcon and Auxerre, and about 7% to 10% in weaker or older-stock towns.
Compared with the broader historical housing vacancy picture, Burgundy’s active rental vacancy is lower because many vacant homes are rural, obsolete, poorly insulated or not really available to normal tenants.
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How many days do rentals stay listed in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, a normal well-priced rental in Burgundy stays listed for about 25 to 35 days on average, with faster results in Dijon and slower results in weak or rural markets.
The realistic range is 15 to 25 days for strong Dijon studios, 20 to 35 days for Beaune, Chalon, Mâcon and Auxerre, and 35 to 60 days or more for poor-DPE or overpriced homes.
Compared with one year ago, the best Burgundy rentals appear to move slightly faster, but weaker homes are not improving much because tenants are more careful about heating costs and location.
Which months have peak tenant demand in Burgundy?
Peak tenant demand in Burgundy is usually from June to September, with August and early September especially strong for students and small apartments in Dijon and other university towns.
This seasonal pattern comes from the university calendar, job moves, internships, wine and tourism work around Beaune, and households trying to move before the school year starts.
The lowest-demand months in Burgundy are usually November, December and early January, when fewer households want to move and cold weather makes poor insulation more visible.
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What will my monthly costs be in Burgundy as of 2026?
What property taxes should landlords expect in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, a Burgundy landlord should often budget about €900 to €1,800 per year in property tax for a normal apartment, or about $1,030 to $2,050.
The realistic range is about €800 to €1,500 per year for a small apartment, €1,200 to €2,200 for a larger apartment and €1,800 to €3,600 for a house, or about $910 to $4,100.
Property tax in Burgundy is based on the cadastral rental value and local commune rates, so the final bill changes a lot between Dijon, Beaune, Chalon, Mâcon, Auxerre, Nevers and smaller villages.
Please note that, in our property pack covering the real estate market in Burgundy, we cover what exemptions or deductions may be available to reduce property taxes for landlords.
What utilities do landlords often pay in Burgundy right now?
In Burgundy, landlords most commonly pay building charges first, and may also include cold water, heating provisions, internet or waste charges in furnished studios or small student rentals.
A practical landlord-paid budget is about €20 to €50 per month for recoverable building charges, €10 to €25 for water, €20 to €80 for heating provisions and €20 to €35 for internet, or about $25 to $90 for the larger items.
For a normal unfurnished Burgundy rental, tenants usually pay electricity, gas, internet and daily utility use directly, while landlords recover eligible charges through the lease where French rules allow it.
How is rental income taxed in Burgundy as of 2026?
As of 2026, Burgundy rental income follows French national tax rules, with unfurnished rents usually taxed as revenus fonciers and furnished rents usually taxed as BIC, often under LMNP rules.
Landlords can often deduct loan interest, repairs, insurance, management fees, co-ownership charges and property tax under the real regime, while simplified regimes use fixed allowances instead.
The most common Burgundy-specific mistake is buying an old low-rent property without checking DPE, heating costs, maintenance and whether the tax regime fits the actual rental plan.
We cover these mistakes, among others, in our Sources and methodology: we used impots.gouv, Service-Public and Service-Public DPE rules. We kept national tax rules separate from local Burgundy costs. We also flagged the mistakes our own investor reviews often show.
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What sources have we used to write this blog article?
Whether it’s in our blog articles or the market analyses included in our property pack about Burgundy, we always rely on the strongest methodology we can … and we don’t throw out numbers at random.
We also aim to be fully transparent, so below we’ve listed the authoritative sources we used, and explained how we used them and the methods behind our estimates.
| Source used | Why this source is reliable | How we used it for this Burgundy rent article |
|---|---|---|
| ANIL and data.gouv.fr rent map 2025 | It is France’s public rent dataset and it uses a documented national method. | We used it as the official base for Burgundy rent-per-m² levels. We liked that it covers communes, not only large cities. |
| Ministry rent-map guide | It explains how the official French rent map should be read. | We used it to avoid overreading the data. We treated the figures as non-furnished asking rents with charges included. |
| Observatoires locaux des loyers | It is the official local rent observatory network in France. | We used it as a reliability check where local coverage exists. We did not treat it as a full Burgundy-wide dataset. |
| INSEE Bourgogne-Franche-Comté housing analysis | INSEE is France’s official statistics agency. | We used it for housing stock and vacancy context. We used the vacant-home data to avoid confusing total vacancy with active rental vacancy. |
| INSEE regional dossier | It is the official statistical profile for Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. | We used it for population, age and housing structure. We used it to interpret tenant demand in a slow-growth and ageing region. |
| INSEE IRL Q1 2026 | It is the official rent index used for legal annual rent revisions in France. | We used it to estimate existing-lease rent growth. We treated the 0.78% rise as the legal anchor for 2026. |
| Service-Public rent revision rules | It is the official public-service explanation of French rent revision rules. | We used it to explain how rents can rise during an existing lease. We separated legal rent revisions from new asking rents. |
| Banque de France June 2026 projections | It is France’s central bank macro forecast. | We used it for the 2026 economic backdrop. We kept the Burgundy rent forecast moderate because the macro picture is not booming. |
| SeLoger Burgundy rent barometer | It is a major French property portal with current listing indicators. | We used it to translate official rent-per-m² data into practical monthly ranges. We cross-checked furnished and unfurnished signals. |
| SeLoger Dijon | It gives current city-level rent indicators for Burgundy’s main rental market. | We used it to price the region’s strongest urban market. We treated Dijon as the upper benchmark for Burgundy rents. |
| SeLoger Beaune | It gives current rent indicators for Burgundy’s premium wine-town market. | We used it to identify high-rent non-Dijon areas. We treated Beaune as the small-city premium benchmark. |
| SeLoger Auxerre | It gives current rent indicators for an important Yonne rental market. | We used it to avoid making Burgundy too Dijon-focused. We used Auxerre as a mid-market reference point. |
| SeLoger Chalon-sur-Saône | It gives current indicators for a large Saône-et-Loire rental market. | We used it to benchmark central Saône-et-Loire rents. We compared it with Mâcon and Le Creusot logic. |
| impots.gouv rental income rules | It is the French tax authority. | We used it for rental-income tax treatment. We separated unfurnished revenus fonciers from furnished BIC treatment. |
| Service-Public DPE rental rules | It is the official public-service update on energy-performance rental rules. | We used it to assess renovation and rental-risk logic. We treated energy upgrades as especially important in Burgundy’s older housing stock. |
| European Central Bank EUR/USD reference rate | It is the official euro-area reference source for daily euro exchange rates. | We used it only to round euro-to-dollar conversions. We kept dollar figures simple because exchange rates move every day. |
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