Digoin · report
Renovation in Digoin
In 2025, 60% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 60%
Homes authorised in Digoin: 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 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2023 | 32 | 3 | 35 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 28 | 4 | 32 |
| 2020 | 2 | — | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 5 | — | 5 |
| 2017 | 3 | — | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | — | 2 |
| 2015 | 7 | — | 7 |
| 2014 | 28 | — | 28 |
| 2013 | 8 | — | 8 |
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 €95,220. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €371 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 10%
- Payment, one income
- 20%
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
- €710
- Owning per month
- €255
Figures for Saône-et-Loire: Digoin has no reliable figures of its own.
5.3% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,821
In 2022 the population fell by 27 while 6 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 6
- Population change, 2022
- −27
17.4% of the 4,698 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 17.4%
- Empty homes
- 817