Périgueux · report
Renovation in Périgueux
In 2025, 95% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 95%
Homes authorised in Périgueux: 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 | 7 | 124 | 131 |
| 2024 | 2 | 30 | 32 |
| 2023 | 64 | 31 | 95 |
| 2022 | 146 | 65 | 211 |
| 2021 | 41 | 9 | 50 |
| 2020 | 158 | 67 | 225 |
| 2019 | 64 | 18 | 82 |
| 2018 | 3 | 172 | 175 |
| 2017 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2016 | 38 | 37 | 75 |
| 2015 | 83 | 19 | 102 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 45 | 22 | 67 |
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 €160,650. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €625 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 16%
- Payment, one income
- 33%
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
- €923
- Owning per month
- €580
Figures for Dordogne: Périgueux has no reliable figures of its own.
4.2% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,513
In 2022 the population fell by 821 while 35 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 35
- Population change, 2022
- −821
12.3% of the 20,771 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 12.3%
- Empty homes
- 2,557