Chartres · report
Renovation in Chartres
In 2025, 21% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 21%
Homes authorised in Chartres: 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 | 166 | 45 | 211 |
| 2024 | 269 | 144 | 413 |
| 2023 | 720 | 21 | 741 |
| 2022 | 876 | 91 | 967 |
| 2021 | 850 | 133 | 983 |
| 2020 | 590 | 72 | 662 |
| 2019 | 333 | 38 | 371 |
| 2018 | 242 | 184 | 426 |
| 2017 | 439 | 4 | 443 |
| 2016 | 506 | 4 | 510 |
| 2015 | 344 | 32 | 376 |
| 2014 | 165 | 32 | 197 |
| 2013 | 426 | — | 426 |
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 €222,030. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €864 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 21%
- Payment, one income
- 41%
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
- €1,182
- Owning per month
- €796
Figures for Eure-et-Loir: Chartres has no reliable figures of its own.
17.0% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,867
In 2022 the population grew by 334 while 655 homes were started: 0.5 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.5
- Population change, 2022
- +334
10.9% of the 23,576 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 10.9%
- Empty homes
- 2,577