Arès · report
Renovation in Arès
In 2025, 28% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 28%
Homes authorised in Arès: 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 | 63 | 24 | 87 |
| 2024 | 61 | 9 | 70 |
| 2023 | 122 | 5 | 127 |
| 2022 | 27 | 10 | 37 |
| 2021 | 39 | 7 | 46 |
| 2020 | 46 | 5 | 51 |
| 2019 | 34 | 4 | 38 |
| 2018 | 53 | 3 | 56 |
| 2017 | 100 | 24 | 124 |
| 2016 | 40 | 3 | 43 |
| 2015 | 49 | 4 | 53 |
| 2014 | 55 | 9 | 64 |
| 2013 | 71 | 3 | 74 |
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 €391,500. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,524 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 32%
- Payment, one income
- 64%
Owning and renting a 90 m² apartment cost about the same each month. 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
- €1,369
- Owning per month
- €1,405
Figures for Gironde: Arès has no reliable figures of its own.
27.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 11,095
In 2022 the population grew by 5 while 25 homes were started: 0.2 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.2
- Population change, 2022
- +5
4.3% of the 5,193 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 4.3%
- Empty homes
- 221