Aix-en-Provence · report
Renovation in Aix-en-Provence
In 2025, 3% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 3%
Homes authorised in Aix-en-Provence: 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 | 718 | 19 | 737 |
| 2024 | 521 | 67 | 588 |
| 2023 | 347 | 37 | 384 |
| 2022 | 916 | 51 | 967 |
| 2021 | 1,342 | 134 | 1,476 |
| 2020 | 954 | 32 | 986 |
| 2019 | 1,393 | 63 | 1,456 |
| 2018 | 872 | 50 | 922 |
| 2017 | 1,286 | 90 | 1,376 |
| 2016 | 2,102 | 96 | 2,198 |
| 2015 | 979 | 17 | 996 |
| 2014 | 742 | 33 | 775 |
| 2013 | 1,524 | 100 | 1,624 |
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 €451,080. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,756 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 36%
- Payment, one income
- 73%
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
- €1,723
- Owning per month
- €1,603
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: Aix-en-Provence 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 1,762 while 1,586 homes were started: 1.1 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.1
- Population change, 2022
- +1,762
8.0% of the 90,263 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.0%
- Empty homes
- 7,244