Le Puy-en-Velay · report
Renovation in Le Puy-en-Velay
In 2025, 33% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 33%
Homes authorised in Le Puy-en-Velay: 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 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| 2024 | 22 | 30 | 52 |
| 2023 | 49 | 13 | 62 |
| 2022 | 6 | 9 | 15 |
| 2021 | 16 | 59 | 75 |
| 2020 | 48 | 34 | 82 |
| 2019 | 49 | 16 | 65 |
| 2018 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2017 | 139 | 19 | 158 |
| 2016 | 23 | 19 | 42 |
| 2015 | 55 | 40 | 95 |
| 2014 | 65 | 43 | 108 |
| 2013 | 25 | 14 | 39 |
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 €142,740. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €556 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 15%
- Payment, one income
- 29%
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
- €834
- Owning per month
- €491
Figures for Haute-Loire: Le Puy-en-Velay has no reliable figures of its own.
2.2% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 980
In 2022 the population fell by 449 while 36 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 36
- Population change, 2022
- −449
11.9% of the 12,826 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 11.9%
- Empty homes
- 1,523