The extra-large format is second nature in the 16th arrondissement, and the flatshare apartment finally puts it to matching use: when the district gives itself a museum, it is a vessel of twelve glass sails signed Gehry, inaugurated on 20 October 2014 at the edge of the Jardin d'Acclimatation — the Fondation Louis Vuitton, XXL assumed all the way into the woods. The Haussmann storeys of Passy and Auteuil are cut from the same ambition: one hundred twenty square metres and more, enfilades, double living rooms — surfaces that only a full team truly fills.
The flatshare apartment scale climbs with the square metres, but division tames it: around €2,800 monthly before charges for four bedrooms in Passy or Auteuil, with the porte Molitor and the south proving gentler. The neighbours offer two familiar fallbacks: the 8th arrondissement shares the same taste for reception salons on the Right Bank, the 17th extends the fine storeys at rates descending towards Batignolles.
Do you own an under-occupied family flat in Auteuil, Passy or La Muette? A listing where the flat to share is stated in black and white wakes up a property the classic market watches without daring: families of seven no longer roam the streets, teams of four do — expatriate executives, doctors from the nearby clinics, Dauphine PhD students — and every flatmate of that calibre brings a solid guarantor and contract. Global rent, plan, storey: the 16th lets on file, better to say it upfront.
Frequently asked questions
Why are there so many very large surfaces in the 16th?
Because the whole arrondissement was built around the large bourgeois family: noble floors of one hundred to one hundred sixty square metres, service rooms, double circulations. Those plans, oversized for today's households, are exactly sized for a flatshare apartment of four or five bedrooms.
Passy, Auteuil, porte Molitor: which nuances for a group?
Passy-La Muette for central standing, reputed lycées and line 9; Auteuil for the village spirit, its villas and absolute calm; the porte Molitor and the south for the same square metres at a lighter envelope, stadiums and pool thrown in. The price gradient simply follows the distance to the Seine.
Divided by four or five, what happens to the bill?
It changes category: the fixed point stands — €744 monthly for a room, charges in the total, per LocService — and, per flatmate, the share of a very large 16th-arrondissement home approaches it from above, for twice the surface and a reception living room. Standing, divided, becomes a rational calculation.
Is the 16th really "far from everything"?
It is the most tenacious and least true of legends: lines 9 and 6 cross the arrondissement, the RER C runs along the Seine, and La Défense like the Champs-Élysées are a quarter of an hour away. What is true: evenings often happen elsewhere — the flatshares here know it well and organise their weeks accordingly.
Landlord of a dormant family flat: where to start?
With an honest inventory of the real bedrooms: an attached service room counts if it is heated and declared, not otherwise. Then announce the global rent and the detail of the co-ownership charges — high here, they must be laid out from the start: the 16th-arrondissement flatmate signs quickly when nothing in the file surprises.
