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Renovation in Briançon
In 2025, 56% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 56%
Homes authorised in Briançon: 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 | 51 | 66 | 117 |
| 2024 | 67 | 11 | 78 |
| 2023 | 158 | 23 | 181 |
| 2022 | 109 | 17 | 126 |
| 2021 | 148 | 20 | 168 |
| 2020 | 93 | 16 | 109 |
| 2019 | 24 | 46 | 70 |
| 2018 | 17 | 13 | 30 |
| 2017 | 63 | 27 | 90 |
| 2016 | 226 | 4 | 230 |
| 2015 | 52 | 11 | 63 |
| 2014 | 25 | 1 | 26 |
| 2013 | 100 | 17 | 117 |
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 €307,260. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,196 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 29%
- Payment, one income
- 58%
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
- €1,098
Figures for Hautes-Alpes: Briançon has no reliable figures of its own.
18.2% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,178
In 2022 the population grew by 663 while 158 homes were started: 4.2 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 4.2
- Population change, 2022
- +663
7.1% of the 9,797 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.1%
- Empty homes
- 700