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Buy or rent in Saint-Quentin

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
€994
Owning per month
€386

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Starting from the median sale price of apartments, €1,172/m², and the asking rent of an apartment, €11.0/m² a month with charges (2025), in Saint-Quentin, and a mortgage rate of 3.2%.

Assumptions
90
3.2
1
Property tax (taxe foncière), insurance, maintenance and co-ownership charges.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Notary fees and transfer duties, paid once.

Owning costs less each month than renting.

Rent a month
€994
Owning a month, not recovered
€386
Interest
€253
Running costs
€88
Return given up
€45
Cash out a month, if buying
€498

Gross rental yield in Saint-Quentin

A year's asking rent as a share of the sale price, apartments, for each year the rent map was published. Higher means rent is dear compared with buying.

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PeriodSaint-Quentin
202511.8%
202410.9%
202310.9%
202210.0%

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are asking rents with charges included, from the ANIL rent map, so they run a little above what tenants pay in rent alone, and the yield reads a little high.

Other reports for Saint-Quentin

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €100,350. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €391 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.

Payment, two incomes
11%
Payment, one income
23%

Figures for Aisne: Saint-Quentin has no reliable figures of its own.

29.0% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
913

In 2022 the population fell by 182 while 166 homes were started.

Homes started, 2022
166
Population change, 2022
−182

13.3% of the 30,761 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2023 census
13.3%
Empty homes
4,106

In 2025, 65% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.

Homes in existing buildings, 2025
65%

Public bodies signed €375.5K of housing works here in 2025, and €375.5K since 2024.

Signed in 2025
€375.5K
Per resident, 2025
€7