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Renovation in Dourdan
In 2025, 50% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 50%
Homes authorised in Dourdan: 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 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 134 | 9 | 143 |
| 2023 | 29 | 5 | 34 |
| 2022 | 3 | 194 | 197 |
| 2021 | 8 | 16 | 24 |
| 2020 | 6 | 20 | 26 |
| 2019 | 17 | 10 | 27 |
| 2018 | 94 | 28 | 122 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| 2016 | 74 | 1 | 75 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2014 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2013 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
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 €273,060. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,063 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 24%
- Payment, one income
- 48%
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
- €1,399
- Owning per month
- €998
Figures for Essonne: Dourdan has no reliable figures of its own.
33.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 5,659
In 2022 the population grew by 347 while 17 homes were started: 20.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 20.4
- Population change, 2022
- +347
4.7% of the 5,388 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 4.7%
- Empty homes
- 255