Alès · report
Renovation in Alès
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 Alès: 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 | 368 | 25 | 393 |
| 2024 | 117 | 33 | 150 |
| 2023 | 48 | 24 | 72 |
| 2022 | 195 | 10 | 205 |
| 2021 | 221 | 19 | 240 |
| 2020 | 110 | 12 | 122 |
| 2019 | 299 | 8 | 307 |
| 2018 | 110 | 14 | 124 |
| 2017 | 60 | 14 | 74 |
| 2016 | 349 | 9 | 358 |
| 2015 | 218 | 2 | 220 |
| 2014 | 409 | 55 | 464 |
| 2013 | 99 | 17 | 116 |
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 €158,400. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €617 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 18%
- Payment, one income
- 37%
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
- €933
- Owning per month
- €481
Figures for Gard: Alès has no reliable figures of its own.
32.2% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 3,291
In 2022 the population grew by 1,100 while 142 homes were started: 7.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 7.7
- Population change, 2022
- +1,100
6.8% of the 25,934 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.8%
- Empty homes
- 1,756