Armentières · report
Renovation in Armentières
In 2025, 31% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 31%
Homes authorised in Armentières: 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 | 20 | 9 | 29 |
| 2024 | 99 | 30 | 129 |
| 2023 | 238 | 5 | 243 |
| 2022 | 154 | 18 | 172 |
| 2021 | 279 | 126 | 405 |
| 2020 | 124 | 65 | 189 |
| 2019 | 301 | 8 | 309 |
| 2018 | 604 | 97 | 701 |
| 2017 | 188 | 35 | 223 |
| 2016 | 220 | 30 | 250 |
| 2015 | 98 | 16 | 114 |
| 2014 | 128 | 25 | 153 |
| 2013 | 183 | 13 | 196 |
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 €171,990. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €669 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 19%
- Payment, one income
- 38%
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
- €1,152
- Owning per month
- €687
Figures for Nord: Armentières has no reliable figures of its own.
10.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 12,139
In 2022 the population grew by 891 while 310 homes were started: 2.9 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.9
- Population change, 2022
- +891
8.0% of the 13,406 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.0%
- Empty homes
- 1,068