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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
€1,104
Owning per month
€766

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Starting from the median sale price of apartments, €2,326/m², and the asking rent of an apartment, €12.3/m² a month with charges (2025), in Avignon, and a mortgage rate of 3.2%.

Assumptions
90
3.2
1
Property tax (taxe foncière), insurance, maintenance and co-ownership charges.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Notary fees and transfer duties, paid once.

Owning costs less each month than renting.

Rent a month
€1,104
Owning a month, not recovered
€766
Interest
€502
Running costs
€174
Return given up
€89
Cash out a month, if buying
€989

Gross rental yield in Avignon

A year's asking rent as a share of the sale price, apartments, for each year the rent map was published. Higher means rent is dear compared with buying.

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PeriodAvignon
20256.3%
20246.4%
20236.1%
20226.2%

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are asking rents with charges included, from the ANIL rent map, so they run a little above what tenants pay in rent alone, and the yield reads a little high.

Other reports for Avignon

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €214,650. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €835 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.

Payment, two incomes
26%
Payment, one income
51%

Figures for Vaucluse: Avignon 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 grew by 428 while 285 homes were started: 1.5 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2022
1.5
Population change, 2022
+428

14.3% of the 55,813 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2023 census
14.3%
Empty homes
7,971

In 2025, 25% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.

Homes in existing buildings, 2025
25%