Brest · report
Renovation in Brest
In 2025, 10% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 10%
Homes authorised in Brest: 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 | 820 | 95 | 915 |
| 2024 | 163 | 60 | 223 |
| 2023 | 439 | 65 | 504 |
| 2022 | 376 | 87 | 463 |
| 2021 | 756 | 268 | 1,024 |
| 2020 | 403 | 63 | 466 |
| 2019 | 816 | 86 | 902 |
| 2018 | 374 | 53 | 427 |
| 2017 | 781 | 34 | 815 |
| 2016 | 1,015 | 21 | 1,036 |
| 2015 | 422 | 12 | 434 |
| 2014 | 474 | 19 | 493 |
| 2013 | 347 | 13 | 360 |
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 €204,750. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €797 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 20%
- Payment, one income
- 40%
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
- €1,096
- Owning per month
- €732
Figures for Finistère: Brest has no reliable figures of its own.
8.9% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 6,778
In 2022 the population grew by 1,353 while 691 homes were started: 2.0 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.0
- Population change, 2022
- +1,353
6.5% of the 86,432 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.5%
- Empty homes
- 5,619