Concarneau · report
Renovation in Concarneau
In 2025, 15% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 15%
Homes authorised in Concarneau: 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 | 293 | 50 | 343 |
| 2024 | 68 | 17 | 85 |
| 2023 | 160 | 44 | 204 |
| 2022 | 78 | 3 | 81 |
| 2021 | 66 | 7 | 73 |
| 2020 | 106 | 2 | 108 |
| 2019 | 51 | 6 | 57 |
| 2018 | 430 | 7 | 437 |
| 2017 | 282 | 5 | 287 |
| 2016 | 243 | 16 | 259 |
| 2015 | 175 | 8 | 183 |
| 2014 | 306 | 2 | 308 |
| 2013 | 167 | 24 | 191 |
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 €275,040. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,071 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 24%
- Payment, one income
- 48%
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
- €1,020
- Owning per month
- €1,074
Figures for Finistère: Concarneau 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 213 while 74 homes were started: 2.9 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.9
- Population change, 2022
- +213
7.2% of the 14,439 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.2%
- Empty homes
- 1,033