Aubagne · report
Renovation in Aubagne
In 2025, 43% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 43%
Homes authorised in Aubagne: 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 | 165 | 123 | 288 |
| 2024 | 80 | 15 | 95 |
| 2023 | 260 | 6 | 266 |
| 2022 | 182 | 8 | 190 |
| 2021 | 589 | 18 | 607 |
| 2020 | 189 | 2 | 191 |
| 2019 | 171 | 5 | 176 |
| 2018 | 184 | 16 | 200 |
| 2017 | 205 | 10 | 215 |
| 2016 | 201 | 15 | 216 |
| 2015 | 280 | 4 | 284 |
| 2014 | 43 | 7 | 50 |
| 2013 | 509 | 14 | 523 |
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 €276,030. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,074 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
- €1,390
- Owning per month
- €903
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: Aubagne has no reliable figures of its own.
24.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,951
In 2022 the population fell by 195 while 287 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 287
- Population change, 2022
- −195
6.6% of the 23,043 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.6%
- Empty homes
- 1,510