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Renovation in Angoulême
In 2025, 33% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 33%
Homes authorised in Angoulême: 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 | 253 | 124 | 377 |
| 2024 | 139 | 40 | 179 |
| 2023 | 19 | 39 | 58 |
| 2022 | 29 | 112 | 141 |
| 2021 | 44 | 76 | 120 |
| 2020 | 102 | 37 | 139 |
| 2019 | 155 | 55 | 210 |
| 2018 | 34 | 78 | 112 |
| 2017 | 115 | 23 | 138 |
| 2016 | 75 | 80 | 155 |
| 2015 | 59 | 29 | 88 |
| 2014 | 77 | 24 | 101 |
| 2013 | 39 | 66 | 105 |
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 €147,420. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €574 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 15%
- Payment, one income
- 31%
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
- €1,025
- Owning per month
- €520
Figures for Charente: Angoulême has no reliable figures of its own.
11.7% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,606
In 2022 the population grew by 485 while 57 homes were started: 8.5 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 8.5
- Population change, 2022
- +485
9.0% of the 26,947 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.0%
- Empty homes
- 2,424