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Buy or rent in Carnac

Renting a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than owning 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
€2,008

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Starting from the median sale price of apartments, €6,099/m², and the asking rent of an apartment, €14.4/m² a month with charges (2025), in Carnac, 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.

Renting costs less each month than owning.

Rent a month
€1,292
Owning a month, not recovered
€2,008
Interest
€1,317
Running costs
€457
Return given up
€233
Cash out a month, if buying
€2,594

Gross rental yield in Carnac

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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PeriodCarnac
20252.9%
20243.2%
20232.7%
20222.7%

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 Carnac

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €512,190. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,994 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.

Payment, two incomes
41%
Payment, one income
82%

Figures for Morbihan: Carnac has no reliable figures of its own.

16.3% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
7,671

In 2022 the population fell by 21 while 19 homes were started.

Homes started, 2022
19
Population change, 2022
−21

3.2% of the 8,944 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2023 census
3.2%
Empty homes
289

In 2025, 29% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.

Homes in existing buildings, 2025
29%