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Renovation in Bollène
In 2025, 32% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 32%
Homes authorised in Bollène: 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 | 10 | 31 |
| 2024 | 33 | 14 | 47 |
| 2023 | 32 | 14 | 46 |
| 2022 | 64 | 18 | 82 |
| 2021 | 145 | 31 | 176 |
| 2020 | 86 | 28 | 114 |
| 2019 | 104 | 17 | 121 |
| 2018 | 25 | 3 | 28 |
| 2017 | 75 | 7 | 82 |
| 2016 | 60 | 10 | 70 |
| 2015 | 35 | 9 | 44 |
| 2014 | 71 | 9 | 80 |
| 2013 | 39 | 4 | 43 |
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 €198,270. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €772 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 21%
- Payment, one income
- 42%
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
- €940
- Owning per month
- €467
Figures for Vaucluse: Bollène 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 153 while 59 homes were started: 2.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.6
- Population change, 2022
- +153
8.9% of the 7,456 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.9%
- Empty homes
- 666