Fougères · report
Renovation in Fougères
In 2025, 65% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 65%
Homes authorised in Fougères: 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 | 51 | 94 | 145 |
| 2024 | 84 | 20 | 104 |
| 2023 | 123 | 14 | 137 |
| 2022 | 47 | 18 | 65 |
| 2021 | 126 | 58 | 184 |
| 2020 | 45 | 45 | 90 |
| 2019 | 27 | 17 | 44 |
| 2018 | 43 | 4 | 47 |
| 2017 | 13 | 2 | 15 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1 | 29 |
| 2015 | 30 | 1 | 31 |
| 2014 | 74 | — | 74 |
| 2013 | 28 | 129 | 157 |
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 €170,550. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €664 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 17%
- Payment, one income
- 34%
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
- €959
- Owning per month
- €605
Figures for Ille-et-Vilaine: Fougères has no reliable figures of its own.
17.6% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 12,128
In 2022 the population fell by 295 while 61 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 61
- Population change, 2022
- −295
8.8% of the 12,273 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.8%
- Empty homes
- 1,081