Dreux · report
Renovation in Dreux
In 2025, 43% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 43%
Homes authorised in Dreux: 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 | 93 | 69 | 162 |
| 2024 | 182 | 46 | 228 |
| 2023 | 43 | 27 | 70 |
| 2022 | 248 | 337 | 585 |
| 2021 | 258 | 20 | 278 |
| 2020 | 147 | 59 | 206 |
| 2019 | 62 | 20 | 82 |
| 2018 | 103 | 8 | 111 |
| 2017 | 91 | 3 | 94 |
| 2016 | 34 | 2 | 36 |
| 2015 | 161 | 59 | 220 |
| 2014 | 161 | 9 | 170 |
| 2013 | 92 | 24 | 116 |
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 €163,080. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €635 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 19%
- Payment, one income
- 39%
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
- €1,132
- Owning per month
- €527
Figures for Eure-et-Loir: Dreux 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 338 while 397 homes were started: 0.9 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.9
- Population change, 2022
- +338
9.1% of the 14,318 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.1%
- Empty homes
- 1,297