Mende · report
Renovation in Mende
In 2025, 25% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 25%
Homes authorised in Mende: 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 | 21 | 7 | 28 |
| 2024 | 8 | 25 | 33 |
| 2023 | 13 | 45 | 58 |
| 2022 | 41 | 19 | 60 |
| 2021 | 50 | 14 | 64 |
| 2020 | 79 | 3 | 82 |
| 2019 | 73 | 36 | 109 |
| 2018 | 55 | 3 | 58 |
| 2017 | 24 | 19 | 43 |
| 2016 | 32 | 11 | 43 |
| 2015 | 15 | 15 | 30 |
| 2014 | 53 | 32 | 85 |
| 2013 | 84 | 3 | 87 |
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 €177,300. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €690 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 16%
- Payment, one income
- 33%
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
- €901
- Owning per month
- €644
Figures for Lozère: Mende has no reliable figures of its own.
3.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 370
In 2022 the population grew by 142 while 20 homes were started: 7.1 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 7.1
- Population change, 2022
- +142
5.8% of the 7,300 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.8%
- Empty homes
- 426