Melun · report
Renovation in Melun
In 2025, 3% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 3%
Homes authorised in Melun: 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 | 547 | 18 | 565 |
| 2024 | 219 | 33 | 252 |
| 2023 | 62 | 22 | 84 |
| 2022 | 665 | 21 | 686 |
| 2021 | 305 | 18 | 323 |
| 2020 | 278 | 25 | 303 |
| 2019 | 890 | 34 | 924 |
| 2018 | 673 | 15 | 688 |
| 2017 | 265 | 15 | 280 |
| 2016 | 342 | 98 | 440 |
| 2015 | 421 | 19 | 440 |
| 2014 | 181 | 87 | 268 |
| 2013 | 392 | 44 | 436 |
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 €244,530. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €952 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 27%
- Payment, one income
- 54%
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
- €1,455
- Owning per month
- €883
Figures for Seine-et-Marne: Melun 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
In 2022 the population grew by 2,310 while 226 homes were started: 10.2 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 10.2
- Population change, 2022
- +2,310
8.6% of the 21,849 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.6%
- Empty homes
- 1,884