Arles · report
Renovation in Arles
In 2025, 8% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 8%
Homes authorised in Arles: 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 | 262 | 23 | 285 |
| 2024 | 270 | 35 | 305 |
| 2023 | 64 | 43 | 107 |
| 2022 | 371 | 38 | 409 |
| 2021 | 518 | 14 | 532 |
| 2020 | 200 | 33 | 233 |
| 2019 | 514 | 16 | 530 |
| 2018 | 146 | 54 | 200 |
| 2017 | 128 | 67 | 195 |
| 2016 | 165 | 33 | 198 |
| 2015 | 82 | 29 | 111 |
| 2014 | 178 | 33 | 211 |
| 2013 | 167 | 26 | 193 |
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 €258,750. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,007 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 27%
- Payment, one income
- 53%
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
- €1,170
- Owning per month
- €864
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: Arles 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 655 while 411 homes were started: 1.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.6
- Population change, 2022
- +655
10.3% of the 29,184 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 10.3%
- Empty homes
- 3,013