Rouen · report
Renovation in Rouen
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 Rouen: 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 | 550 | 51 | 601 |
| 2024 | 753 | 37 | 790 |
| 2023 | 78 | 108 | 186 |
| 2022 | 526 | 69 | 595 |
| 2021 | 762 | 74 | 836 |
| 2020 | 995 | 225 | 1,220 |
| 2019 | 392 | 110 | 502 |
| 2018 | 1,378 | 105 | 1,483 |
| 2017 | 787 | 60 | 847 |
| 2016 | 1,029 | 48 | 1,077 |
| 2015 | 1,024 | 73 | 1,097 |
| 2014 | 714 | 139 | 853 |
| 2013 | 876 | 117 | 993 |
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 €242,280. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €943 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 25%
- Payment, one income
- 49%
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
- €1,195
- Owning per month
- €887
Figures for Seine-Maritime: Rouen has no reliable figures of its own.
25.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,738
In 2022 the population grew by 1,331 while 834 homes were started: 1.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.6
- Population change, 2022
- +1,331
9.7% of the 77,187 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.7%
- Empty homes
- 7,524