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Renovation in Colombes
In 2025, 27% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 27%
Homes authorised in Colombes: 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 | 723 | 270 | 993 |
| 2024 | 1,290 | 41 | 1,331 |
| 2023 | 347 | 17 | 364 |
| 2022 | 694 | 110 | 804 |
| 2021 | 340 | 16 | 356 |
| 2020 | 884 | 15 | 899 |
| 2019 | 1,080 | 8 | 1,088 |
| 2018 | 1,242 | 115 | 1,357 |
| 2017 | 791 | 8 | 799 |
| 2016 | 561 | 7 | 568 |
| 2015 | 953 | 17 | 970 |
| 2014 | 175 | 14 | 189 |
| 2013 | 320 | 24 | 344 |
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 €483,120. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,880 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 40%
- Payment, one income
- 80%
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
- €2,119
- Owning per month
- €1,658
Figures for Hauts-de-Seine: Colombes has no reliable figures of its own.
2.7% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 12,666
In 2022 the population grew by 361 while 208 homes were started: 1.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.7
- Population change, 2022
- +361
6.2% of the 41,016 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.2%
- Empty homes
- 2,558