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Renovation in Tours
In 2025, 79% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 79%
Homes authorised in Tours: 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 | 56 | 214 | 270 |
| 2024 | 450 | 15 | 465 |
| 2023 | 791 | 103 | 894 |
| 2022 | 1,335 | 345 | 1,680 |
| 2021 | 1,084 | 173 | 1,257 |
| 2020 | 603 | 111 | 714 |
| 2019 | 791 | 96 | 887 |
| 2018 | 577 | 47 | 624 |
| 2017 | 1,013 | 140 | 1,153 |
| 2016 | 1,437 | 111 | 1,548 |
| 2015 | 1,307 | 57 | 1,364 |
| 2014 | 749 | 53 | 802 |
| 2013 | 656 | 54 | 710 |
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 €264,600. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,030 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 26%
- Payment, one income
- 53%
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
- €1,216
- Owning per month
- €945
Figures for Indre-et-Loire: Tours has no reliable figures of its own.
15.6% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 3,084
In 2022 the population grew by 591 while 1,517 homes were started: 0.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.4
- Population change, 2022
- +591
11.2% of the 91,615 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 11.2%
- Empty homes
- 10,244
Public bodies signed €2.1M of housing works here in 2025, and €2.1M since 2024.
- Signed in 2025
- €2.1M
- Per resident, 2025
- €15