Bourg-en-Bresse · report
Renovation in Bourg-en-Bresse
In 2025, 5% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 5%
Homes authorised in Bourg-en-Bresse: 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 | 193 | 11 | 204 |
| 2024 | 439 | 133 | 572 |
| 2023 | 455 | 68 | 523 |
| 2022 | 679 | 54 | 733 |
| 2021 | 208 | 87 | 295 |
| 2020 | 387 | 242 | 629 |
| 2019 | 152 | 9 | 161 |
| 2018 | 52 | 2 | 54 |
| 2017 | 73 | — | 73 |
| 2016 | 112 | 94 | 206 |
| 2015 | 144 | 105 | 249 |
| 2014 | 103 | 64 | 167 |
| 2013 | 126 | 31 | 157 |
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 €183,600. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €715 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 19%
- Payment, one income
- 38%
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
- €1,076
- Owning per month
- €642
Figures for Ain: Bourg-en-Bresse has no reliable figures of its own.
23.3% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,238
In 2022 the population grew by 307 while 289 homes were started: 1.1 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.1
- Population change, 2022
- +307
9.6% of the 23,845 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.6%
- Empty homes
- 2,291
Public bodies signed €295.4K of housing works here in 2025, and €1.3M since 2024.
- Signed in 2025
- €295.4K
- Per resident, 2025
- €7