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Renovation in Poitiers
In 2025, 88% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 88%
Homes authorised in Poitiers: 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 | 19 | 144 | 163 |
| 2024 | 324 | 196 | 520 |
| 2023 | 361 | 180 | 541 |
| 2022 | 574 | 217 | 791 |
| 2021 | 494 | 196 | 690 |
| 2020 | 892 | 131 | 1,023 |
| 2019 | 91 | 130 | 221 |
| 2018 | 263 | 80 | 343 |
| 2017 | 188 | 167 | 355 |
| 2016 | 121 | 113 | 234 |
| 2015 | 157 | 133 | 290 |
| 2014 | 315 | 33 | 348 |
| 2013 | 68 | 72 | 140 |
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 €193,140. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €752 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 20%
- Payment, one income
- 40%
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
- €1,096
- Owning per month
- €724
Figures for Vienne: Poitiers has no reliable figures of its own.
1.0% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,975
In 2022 the population grew by 444 while 447 homes were started: 1.0 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.0
- Population change, 2022
- +444
9.2% of the 56,934 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.2%
- Empty homes
- 5,249