Posted by Optimus1 > 2014-01-28 17:20 | Report Abuse

Along with its economy, France's real estate market has suffered through 2013. And Paris has felt the pain more -- in both the residential and commercial markets -- than anywhere else. According to a report from real estate group Century 21, prices per square meter in French properties which were not new-builds dipped 1.8 percent in 2013. But in the greater Paris region, that average price decreased by 2.9 percent and in center of the capital homebuyers' appetite went into freefall: by 8.8 percent in 2013 and 9.8 percent in 2012.