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An article that explains the monthly expenses of a high-end apartment in Paris
Many clients often ask us about the cost of owning an apartment in Paris. Roughly speaking, there are four major expenses for holding an apartment: the expenses required for the operation of the apartment itself (property sharing costs, electricity and Internet fees, insurance, cleaning and maintenance costs for the interior of the apartment), major construction costs of the building, and taxes (land tax, residence tax, property wealth tax), and some other expenses (apartment rental management fee, butler service fee).
Today, we will take a high-end apartment of 100 square meters and a value of 2 million euros in the Saint-Germain district of the Left Bank as an example to explain in detail what the daily maintenance of the apartment will cost (do not confuse it with the cost of buying an apartment Oh).
01/ The cost of running the apartment itself
Paris 16th arrondissment
178 sqm Family Apartment ｜ Porte-Dauphine
178m2
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3 060 000 €
Boulevard Flandrin was officially named in 1865, in honor of the painter Hippolyte Flandrin. The avenue began its life as a side line of the Auteuil railway; the tracks have long since been buried underground, replaced by the wide central strip of greenery that now runs down its length — buildings on either side face one another across a century of plane tree canopies, close enough to see, far enough to never intrude. It is one of the few avenues in the 16th arrondissement wide and quiet enough that you could sleep with the windows open.
This street has never been loud. Bourgeois families have settled here for generations, simply because it has earned their trust for over a hundred years. Some of Paris's most selective private schools — Gerson, Janson-de-Sailly — surround it on every side; on the corner, a restaurant called Le Flandrin, converted from a former train station, functions as a quiet, unspoken password among locals — understated, yet instantly recognizable to those who belong.
The apartment itself sits on the second floor, spanning 178 sqm. Push open the front door, and a wrought-iron staircase spirals upward — the sense of ceremony that defines Haussmannian architecture begins right there, in the stairwell. Inside, the herringbone parquet floors have never been refinished to erase their age; above the fireplace, a dark, hand-carved Baroque mirror gathers the ceiling's plaster moldings entirely into its frame. A deep navy library wall and a bubble-glass pendant light complete the picture — contemporary choices that don't dilute the bones of the old apartment, but let it breathe in a distinctly present tense.
Each of the three bedrooms has its own character: bay windows open onto the avenue's tree line, and when the floor-to-ceiling curtains are drawn back, Paris light pours in without restraint — not for display, but in service of a life actually lived here.
The property also includes two cellars, a maid's room, and a parking space in the neighboring building — a complete and practical configuration suited to long-term family living.