Limoges · report
Renovation in Limoges
In 2025, 18% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 18%
Homes authorised in Limoges: 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 | 426 | 94 | 520 |
| 2024 | 183 | 31 | 214 |
| 2023 | 149 | 33 | 182 |
| 2022 | 375 | 73 | 448 |
| 2021 | 262 | 104 | 366 |
| 2020 | 647 | 96 | 743 |
| 2019 | 340 | 94 | 434 |
| 2018 | 213 | 171 | 384 |
| 2017 | 307 | 56 | 363 |
| 2016 | 428 | 522 | 950 |
| 2015 | 224 | 30 | 254 |
| 2014 | 112 | 165 | 277 |
| 2013 | 164 | 101 | 265 |
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 €141,570. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €551 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
- €932
- Owning per month
- €490
Figures for Haute-Vienne: Limoges has no reliable figures of its own.
13.4% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,260
In 2022 the population grew by 183 while 191 homes were started: 1.0 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.0
- Population change, 2022
- +183
9.2% of the 83,765 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.2%
- Empty homes
- 7,673