Belfort · report
Renovation in Belfort
In 2025, 21% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 21%
Homes authorised in Belfort: 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 | 77 | 20 | 97 |
| 2024 | 28 | 29 | 57 |
| 2023 | 54 | 46 | 100 |
| 2022 | 109 | 36 | 145 |
| 2021 | 159 | 60 | 219 |
| 2020 | 36 | 19 | 55 |
| 2019 | 106 | 39 | 145 |
| 2018 | 197 | 35 | 232 |
| 2017 | 4 | 41 | 45 |
| 2016 | 40 | 19 | 59 |
| 2015 | 49 | 14 | 63 |
| 2014 | 5 | 14 | 19 |
| 2013 | 39 | 10 | 49 |
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 €115,020. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €448 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 13%
- Payment, one income
- 26%
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
- €939
- Owning per month
- €412
Figures for Territoire de Belfort: Belfort has no reliable figures of its own.
3.0% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 481
In 2022 the population grew by 266 while 159 homes were started: 1.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.7
- Population change, 2022
- +266
12.6% of the 27,793 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 12.6%
- Empty homes
- 3,499