Sorgues · report
Renovation in Sorgues
In 2025, 16% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 16%
Homes authorised in Sorgues: 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 | 49 | 9 | 58 |
| 2024 | 130 | 3 | 133 |
| 2023 | 46 | 9 | 55 |
| 2022 | 34 | 5 | 39 |
| 2021 | 67 | 10 | 77 |
| 2020 | 51 | 3 | 54 |
| 2019 | 74 | 2 | 76 |
| 2018 | 53 | 8 | 61 |
| 2017 | 99 | 20 | 119 |
| 2016 | 94 | 24 | 118 |
| 2015 | 226 | 39 | 265 |
| 2014 | 59 | 14 | 73 |
| 2013 | 73 | 11 | 84 |
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 €210,510. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €819 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 22%
- Payment, one income
- 43%
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
- €1,062
- Owning per month
- €519
Figures for Vaucluse: Sorgues has no reliable figures of its own.
4.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 3,546
In 2022 the population fell by 24 while 27 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 27
- Population change, 2022
- −24
9.1% of the 9,305 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.1%
- Empty homes
- 849