Cholet · report
Renovation in Cholet
In 2025, 47% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 47%
Homes authorised in Cholet: 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 | 193 | 170 | 363 |
| 2024 | 165 | 33 | 198 |
| 2023 | 303 | 77 | 380 |
| 2022 | 546 | 22 | 568 |
| 2021 | 344 | 69 | 413 |
| 2020 | 438 | 41 | 479 |
| 2019 | 123 | 30 | 153 |
| 2018 | 221 | 40 | 261 |
| 2017 | 153 | 39 | 192 |
| 2016 | 117 | 64 | 181 |
| 2015 | 53 | 27 | 80 |
| 2014 | 45 | 8 | 53 |
| 2013 | 74 | 20 | 94 |
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 €185,670. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €723 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 17%
- Payment, one income
- 35%
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
- €1,056
- Owning per month
- €653
Figures for Maine-et-Loire: Cholet has no reliable figures of its own.
5.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,852
In 2022 the population grew by 330 while 551 homes were started: 0.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.6
- Population change, 2022
- +330
5.9% of the 28,400 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.9%
- Empty homes
- 1,669