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5Larvotto
Sea-View Apartment€12,900,000
33210 m²
Sea viewConciergeSpa access
By Sofia Marchetti
Listed 37 days ago
Monaco-Ville
Monaco-Ville — Le Rocher — is the Principality's medieval old town, a protected 20-hectare headland of ochre façades and vaulted lanes around the Prince's Palace and the Cathedral. Its housing stock is the smallest of any Monaco district, roughly 56,700 m² across 220 largely historic buildings, and almost none of it ever reaches the open market. IMSEE recorded just eight resales here in 2025 — under 2% of the Principality's total.
Indicative prime price€40,000 per m²
Indicative prime benchmark — not a valuation.
Monaco-Ville is the Rock itself — the medieval headland where the Prince's Palace, the Cathedral and the Oceanographic Museum stand above a protected web of ochre lanes. Its housing stock is the Principality's smallest and most tightly held: a few hundred apartments behind listed façades, many passing privately between Monégasque families, with no new construction possible on the 20-hectare plateau. Sales are so rare that IMSEE leaves the district out of its official price model; agency desks bracket the old town at roughly €35,000–40,000 per square metre, each transaction negotiated on its own terms.
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5Monte-Carlo
Penthouse in the Carré d'Or€38,500,000€43,120,000
45420 m²
Private rooftop poolConciergeSea view
By Élodie Laurent
Listed 37 days ago
For rent
12La Rousse
Monaco - La Rousse - Penthouse with panoramic sea viewPrice on request
4198 m²
Sea viewTerraceParking
Listed 12 days ago
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Buying here
How to buy in Monaco-Ville
Apartments change hands so rarely that IMSEE excludes Monaco-Ville from its official price-per-m² model altogether; agency desks bracket the old town at roughly €35,000–40,000 per m², with each sale negotiated on its own merits, while the Principality-wide IMSEE estimate eased 1.4% in 2025. Stock is atypical: small character apartments and rare townhouses rather than the serviced towers of the seafront. Buyers are heritage-minded — long-established Monégasque families and collectors of the irreplaceable, for whom the Rocher's value lies precisely in the fact that it cannot be rebuilt.
The process
- 1
Engage a Monaco advisor
A licensed agent surfaces both listed and off-market stock and represents you through the deal — essential in a market where the best apartments never reach a portal.
- 2
Offer & reservation
On an accepted offer you sign a reservation and place a deposit, customarily around 10% held by the notaire.
- 3
Notaire & compromis
A Monégasque notaire (a public officer) drafts the sale agreement, runs title and charge checks, and secures the transaction for both sides.
- 4
Funds & optional residency
Arrange funds or private-bank financing. If you also want to reside, open a Monaco bank relationship and lodge the required deposit in parallel — buying itself needs no residency.
- 5
Acte de vente
The final deed is signed before the notaire, the balance and costs settle, and keys are handed over.
Acquisition costs
- Notary + registration
- ~6% (resale)
- Agency commission
- ~3% (often seller-borne)
- Annual property tax
- None
- Income / capital gains (resident primary home)
- None
Indicative figures — confirm exact costs with your advisor and notaire.
Buying property in Monaco-Ville — FAQ
- Can foreigners buy property in Monaco?
- Yes — there are no nationality restrictions on buying property in Monaco; purchase is open to all buyers. Owning a home can help meet the accommodation requirement if you later apply for residency, but buying itself does not require it.
- What does it cost to buy in Monaco-Ville?
- Budget roughly 6% for notary and registration on a resale, plus about 3% agency commission (often borne by the seller). Monaco levies no annual property tax and no capital-gains tax on a resident's main home.
- How much is prime property in Monaco-Ville per m²?
- Monaco-Ville runs at an indicative €40,000/m² for prime stock in 2026 — see the Riviera Prime Index for the full ranking.