Ventabren · report
Renovation in Ventabren
In 2025, 7% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 7%
Homes authorised in Ventabren: 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 | 14 | 1 | 15 |
| 2024 | 73 | 1 | 74 |
| 2023 | 21 | 3 | 24 |
| 2022 | 72 | 2 | 74 |
| 2021 | 113 | 1 | 114 |
| 2020 | 226 | 4 | 230 |
| 2019 | 306 | — | 306 |
| 2018 | 74 | — | 74 |
| 2017 | 71 | 1 | 72 |
| 2016 | 44 | 1 | 45 |
| 2015 | 56 | 6 | 62 |
| 2014 | 30 | 7 | 37 |
| 2013 | 50 | 4 | 54 |
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 €472,950. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,841 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 29%
- Payment, one income
- 59%
Owning and renting a 90 m² apartment cost about the same each month. 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
- €1,633
- Owning per month
- €1,561
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: Ventabren has no reliable figures of its own.
24.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,951
In 2022 the population grew by 226 while 175 homes were started: 1.3 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.3
- Population change, 2022
- +226
10.8% of the 2,845 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 10.8%
- Empty homes
- 306