Laxou · report
Renovation in Laxou
In 2025, 1% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 1%
Homes authorised in Laxou: 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 | 98 | 1 | 99 |
| 2024 | 28 | 4 | 32 |
| 2022 | 33 | 1 | 34 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 35 | 1 | 36 |
| 2019 | 103 | 2 | 105 |
| 2018 | 12 | — | 12 |
| 2016 | 34 | — | 34 |
| 2015 | 38 | 1 | 39 |
| 2014 | 186 | — | 186 |
| 2013 | 42 | — | 42 |
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 €188,730. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €735 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
- €998
- Owning per month
- €644
Figures for Meurthe-et-Moselle: Laxou has no reliable figures of its own.
22.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,364
In 2022 the population fell by 355 while 28 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 28
- Population change, 2022
- −355
9.1% of the 7,865 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.1%
- Empty homes
- 713