Apt · report
Renovation in Apt
In 2025, 36% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 36%
Homes authorised in Apt: new buildings and existing ones
Dwellings authorised each year, by the year the permit was granted: in new buildings, and by works on existing buildings (conversions, extensions, changes of use). SDES Sitadel.
- Existing buildings
- New buildings
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| Year | New buildings | Existing buildings | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | 12 | 33 |
| 2024 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| 2023 | 19 | 16 | 35 |
| 2022 | 30 | 16 | 46 |
| 2021 | 37 | 3 | 40 |
| 2020 | 27 | 64 | 91 |
| 2019 | 46 | 5 | 51 |
| 2018 | 37 | 2 | 39 |
| 2017 | 103 | 3 | 106 |
| 2016 | 19 | — | 19 |
| 2015 | 17 | 3 | 20 |
| 2014 | 61 | 13 | 74 |
| 2013 | 26 | 3 | 29 |
Only permits that create dwellings are listed, so renovation that adds no home (refurbishing, insulating, re-roofing) is not counted. A permit is permission to build, not a finished home. The current year is left out until it is complete.
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At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €235,260. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €916 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 26%
- Payment, one income
- 52%
Owning a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at apartments' median sale price; rent is the asking rent. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.
- Rent per month
- €1,052
- Owning per month
- €432
Figures for Vaucluse: Apt has no reliable figures of its own.
4.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 3,546
In 2022 the population fell by 154 while 30 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 30
- Population change, 2022
- −154
15.1% of the 6,721 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 15.1%
- Empty homes
- 1,017