Soissons · report
Renovation in Soissons
In 2025, 9% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 9%
Homes authorised in Soissons: 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 | 30 | 3 | 33 |
| 2024 | 56 | 29 | 85 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1 | 14 |
| 2022 | 184 | 14 | 198 |
| 2021 | 70 | 6 | 76 |
| 2020 | 22 | 4 | 26 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2018 | 69 | 7 | 76 |
| 2017 | 38 | 18 | 56 |
| 2016 | 113 | 6 | 119 |
| 2015 | 126 | 19 | 145 |
| 2014 | 194 | 82 | 276 |
| 2013 | 155 | 11 | 166 |
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 €151,920. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €591 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 18%
- Payment, one income
- 36%
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
- €1,030
- Owning per month
- €505
Figures for Aisne: Soissons 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 621 while 16 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 16
- Population change, 2022
- −621
8.5% of the 15,315 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.5%
- Empty homes
- 1,309