Sens · report
Renovation in Sens
In 2025, 11% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 11%
Homes authorised in Sens: 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 | 64 | 8 | 72 |
| 2024 | 69 | 11 | 80 |
| 2023 | 9 | 46 | 55 |
| 2022 | 151 | 23 | 174 |
| 2021 | 361 | 22 | 383 |
| 2020 | 10 | 4 | 14 |
| 2019 | 143 | 9 | 152 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15 | 21 |
| 2017 | 64 | 13 | 77 |
| 2016 | 24 | 10 | 34 |
| 2015 | 24 | 12 | 36 |
| 2014 | 119 | 2 | 121 |
| 2013 | 106 | 2 | 108 |
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 €150,030. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €584 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 17%
- Payment, one income
- 34%
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
- €1,103
- Owning per month
- €512
Figures for Yonne: Sens has no reliable figures of its own.
24.3% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 955
In 2022 the population fell by 169 while 301 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 301
- Population change, 2022
- −169
9.8% of the 14,889 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.8%
- Empty homes
- 1,463