Avignon · report
Renovation in Avignon
In 2025, 25% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 25%
Homes authorised in Avignon: 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 | 247 | 82 | 329 |
| 2024 | 107 | 65 | 172 |
| 2023 | 66 | 252 | 318 |
| 2022 | 546 | 45 | 591 |
| 2021 | 227 | 55 | 282 |
| 2020 | 360 | 112 | 472 |
| 2019 | 216 | 81 | 297 |
| 2018 | 381 | 142 | 523 |
| 2017 | 287 | 209 | 496 |
| 2016 | 203 | 92 | 295 |
| 2015 | 241 | 92 | 333 |
| 2014 | 761 | 149 | 910 |
| 2013 | 560 | 151 | 711 |
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 €214,650. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €835 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 26%
- Payment, one income
- 51%
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
- €1,104
- Owning per month
- €766
Figures for Vaucluse: Avignon has no reliable figures of its own.
4.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 3,546
In 2022 the population grew by 428 while 285 homes were started: 1.5 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.5
- Population change, 2022
- +428
14.3% of the 55,813 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 14.3%
- Empty homes
- 7,971