Carpentras · report
Renovation in Carpentras
In 2025, 28% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 28%
Homes authorised in Carpentras: 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 | 167 | 65 | 232 |
| 2024 | 24 | 35 | 59 |
| 2023 | 92 | 37 | 129 |
| 2022 | 113 | 32 | 145 |
| 2021 | 160 | 29 | 189 |
| 2020 | 133 | 12 | 145 |
| 2019 | 135 | 15 | 150 |
| 2018 | 226 | 17 | 243 |
| 2017 | 280 | 14 | 294 |
| 2016 | 130 | 36 | 166 |
| 2015 | 181 | 17 | 198 |
| 2014 | 228 | 8 | 236 |
| 2013 | 149 | 21 | 170 |
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 €189,990. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €739 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 21%
- Payment, one income
- 43%
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
- €949
- Owning per month
- €545
Figures for Vaucluse: Carpentras has no reliable figures of its own.
4.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 3,546
In 2022 the population grew by 765 while 158 homes were started: 4.8 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 4.8
- Population change, 2022
- +765
9.7% of the 16,341 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.7%
- Empty homes
- 1,592