Fontainebleau · report
Renovation in Fontainebleau
In 2025, 92% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 92%
Homes authorised in Fontainebleau: 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 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| 2024 | 26 | 20 | 46 |
| 2023 | 70 | 4 | 74 |
| 2022 | 299 | 2 | 301 |
| 2021 | 511 | 3 | 514 |
| 2020 | 398 | 60 | 458 |
| 2019 | 180 | 6 | 186 |
| 2017 | 39 | 52 | 91 |
| 2016 | 82 | 21 | 103 |
| 2015 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2014 | 27 | 129 | 156 |
| 2013 | 85 | 5 | 90 |
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 €413,820. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,611 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 31%
- Payment, one income
- 61%
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
- €1,599
- Owning per month
- €1,464
Figures for Seine-et-Marne: Fontainebleau has no reliable figures of its own.
29.0% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 7,285
10.4% of the 9,680 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 10.4%
- Empty homes
- 1,002