Lorient · report
Renovation in Lorient
In 2025, 8% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 8%
Homes authorised in Lorient: 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 | 619 | 52 | 671 |
| 2024 | 518 | 66 | 584 |
| 2023 | 150 | 67 | 217 |
| 2022 | 559 | 47 | 606 |
| 2021 | 558 | 77 | 635 |
| 2020 | 247 | 121 | 368 |
| 2019 | 93 | 58 | 151 |
| 2018 | 58 | 57 | 115 |
| 2017 | 151 | 70 | 221 |
| 2016 | 220 | 48 | 268 |
| 2015 | 166 | 16 | 182 |
| 2014 | 98 | 26 | 124 |
| 2013 | 171 | 64 | 235 |
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 €240,930. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €938 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 24%
- Payment, one income
- 47%
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
- €1,203
- Owning per month
- €854
Figures for Morbihan: Lorient has no reliable figures of its own.
16.3% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 7,671
In 2022 the population grew by 127 while 328 homes were started: 0.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.4
- Population change, 2022
- +127
7.4% of the 36,845 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.4%
- Empty homes
- 2,723