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Renovation in Vif
In 2025, 4% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 4%
Homes authorised in Vif: 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 | 77 | 3 | 80 |
| 2024 | 84 | 1 | 85 |
| 2023 | 16 | 5 | 21 |
| 2022 | 31 | 4 | 35 |
| 2021 | 74 | 3 | 77 |
| 2020 | 96 | 1 | 97 |
| 2019 | 37 | 15 | 52 |
| 2018 | 81 | 4 | 85 |
| 2017 | 51 | 1 | 52 |
| 2016 | 15 | — | 15 |
| 2015 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2014 | 38 | 1 | 39 |
| 2013 | 222 | 8 | 230 |
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 €308,250. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,200 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 24%
- Payment, one income
- 49%
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
- €1,234
- Owning per month
- €1,077
Figures for Isère: Vif has no reliable figures of its own.
31.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 6,432
In 2022 the population fell by 27 while 20 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 20
- Population change, 2022
- −27
5.1% of the 3,963 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.1%
- Empty homes
- 203