Cybergeo (Dec 2019)

Une aubaine pour les géographes ? Intérêts des fichiers open DVF sur les transactions foncières et immobilières et précautions d’usage

  • Laure Casanova Enault,
  • Guilhem Boulay,
  • Mathieu Coulon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/cybergeo.33602

Abstract

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The DVF datafiles (« Demande de Valeurs Foncières » in French, « Real Estate Transaction Datafiles » in English) contain disaggregated information on every French real estate transaction (housing attributes, legal regime of the sale, buyers). The DVF datafiles are produced by the Central State tax services and have been available online since April 2019. However, such open DVF datafiles should be used with caution due to the lack of important variables. Finally, open DVF datafiles were primarily developed for private use (e.g. real estate price estimates) and not for academic purposes.

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