Gérardmer · report
Renovation in Gérardmer
In 2025, 65% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 65%
Homes authorised in Gérardmer: 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 | 9 | 17 | 26 |
| 2024 | 80 | 31 | 111 |
| 2023 | 66 | 50 | 116 |
| 2022 | 86 | 5 | 91 |
| 2021 | 59 | 21 | 80 |
| 2020 | 36 | 29 | 65 |
| 2019 | 66 | 20 | 86 |
| 2018 | 50 | 1 | 51 |
| 2017 | 55 | 6 | 61 |
| 2016 | 53 | 1 | 54 |
| 2015 | 21 | 6 | 27 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1 | 21 |
| 2013 | 53 | 2 | 55 |
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 €273,780. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,066 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 25%
- Payment, one income
- 51%
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
- €1,075
- Owning per month
- €992
Figures for Vosges: Gérardmer has no reliable figures of its own.
20.5% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,405
In 2022 the population fell by 104 while 49 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 49
- Population change, 2022
- −104
5.8% of the 7,558 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.8%
- Empty homes
- 438