Versailles · report
Renovation in Versailles
In 2025, 6% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 6%
Homes authorised in Versailles: 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 | 230 | 15 | 245 |
| 2024 | 2 | 30 | 32 |
| 2023 | 273 | 46 | 319 |
| 2022 | 361 | 19 | 380 |
| 2021 | 220 | 40 | 260 |
| 2020 | 217 | 9 | 226 |
| 2019 | 203 | 93 | 296 |
| 2018 | 28 | 26 | 54 |
| 2017 | 240 | 10 | 250 |
| 2016 | 374 | 16 | 390 |
| 2015 | 175 | 9 | 184 |
| 2014 | 96 | 50 | 146 |
| 2013 | 97 | 44 | 141 |
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 €590,580. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €2,299 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 36%
- Payment, one income
- 72%
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
- €2,188
- Owning per month
- €2,134
Figures for Yvelines: Versailles has no reliable figures of its own.
12.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 7,492
In 2022 the population grew by 177 while 474 homes were started: 0.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.4
- Population change, 2022
- +177
7.9% of the 43,246 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.9%
- Empty homes
- 3,436
Public bodies signed €281.4K of housing works here in 2024, and €281.4K since 2024.
- Signed in 2024
- €281.4K
- Per resident, 2024
- €3