Méru · report
Renovation in Méru
In 2025, 12% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 12%
Homes authorised in Méru: 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 | 136 | 19 | 155 |
| 2024 | 76 | 9 | 85 |
| 2023 | 61 | 4 | 65 |
| 2022 | 60 | 7 | 67 |
| 2021 | 50 | 14 | 64 |
| 2020 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2019 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2018 | 24 | 4 | 28 |
| 2017 | 12 | 11 | 23 |
| 2016 | 9 | 3 | 12 |
| 2015 | 48 | 5 | 53 |
| 2014 | 29 | 12 | 41 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
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 €210,870. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €821 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 22%
- Payment, one income
- 44%
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
- €1,302
- Owning per month
- €656
Figures for Oise: Méru has no reliable figures of its own.
29.2% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,380
In 2022 the population fell by 194 while 8 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 8
- Population change, 2022
- −194
7.8% of the 5,725 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.8%
- Empty homes
- 445