Angers · report
Renovation in Angers
In 2025, 17% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 17%
Homes authorised in Angers: 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 | 1,316 | 277 | 1,593 |
| 2024 | 819 | 203 | 1,022 |
| 2023 | 915 | 217 | 1,132 |
| 2022 | 783 | 94 | 877 |
| 2021 | 1,466 | 127 | 1,593 |
| 2020 | 1,871 | 212 | 2,083 |
| 2019 | 1,459 | 94 | 1,553 |
| 2018 | 843 | 102 | 945 |
| 2017 | 960 | 130 | 1,090 |
| 2016 | 404 | 135 | 539 |
| 2015 | 1,075 | 70 | 1,145 |
| 2014 | 495 | 73 | 568 |
| 2013 | 368 | 70 | 438 |
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 €287,190. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,118 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 28%
- Payment, one income
- 56%
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
- €1,310
- Owning per month
- €1,038
Figures for Maine-et-Loire: Angers has no reliable figures of its own.
5.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,852
In 2022 the population grew by 1,467 while 1,076 homes were started: 1.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.4
- Population change, 2022
- +1,467
5.9% of the 93,492 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.9%
- Empty homes
- 5,553
Public bodies signed €1.5M of housing works here in 2025, and €1.8M since 2024.
- Signed in 2025
- €1.5M
- Per resident, 2025
- €10