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Buy or rent in Bray-Dunes

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
€1,292
Owning per month
€1,157

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Starting from the median sale price of apartments, €3,514/m², and the asking rent of an apartment, €14.4/m² a month with charges (2025), in Bray-Dunes, and a mortgage rate of 3.2%.

Assumptions
90
3.2
1
Property tax (taxe foncière), insurance, maintenance and co-ownership charges.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Notary fees and transfer duties, paid once.

Owning costs less each month than renting.

Rent a month
€1,292
Owning a month, not recovered
€1,157
Interest
€759
Running costs
€264
Return given up
€134
Cash out a month, if buying
€1,494

Gross rental yield in Bray-Dunes

A year's asking rent as a share of the sale price, apartments, for each year the rent map was published. Higher means rent is dear compared with buying.

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PeriodBray-Dunes
20255.1%
20244.0%
20234.2%
20224.0%

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are asking rents with charges included, from the ANIL rent map, so they run a little above what tenants pay in rent alone, and the yield reads a little high.

Other reports for Bray-Dunes

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €279,180. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,087 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.

Payment, two incomes
26%
Payment, one income
51%

Figures for Nord: Bray-Dunes has no reliable figures of its own.

10.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
12,139

In 2022 the population fell by 95 while 2 homes were started.

Homes started, 2022
2
Population change, 2022
−95

3.2% of the 4,895 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2023 census
3.2%
Empty homes
155

In 2025, 33% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.

Homes in existing buildings, 2025
33%

Public bodies signed €728K of housing works here in 2025, and €728K since 2024.

Signed in 2025
€728K
Per resident, 2025
€174