Montbéliard · report
Renovation in Montbéliard
In 2025, 71% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 71%
Homes authorised in Montbéliard: 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
Show the numbers
| Year | New buildings | Existing buildings | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 2024 | 164 | 3 | 167 |
| 2023 | 6 | 35 | 41 |
| 2022 | 25 | 56 | 81 |
| 2021 | 19 | 18 | 37 |
| 2020 | 59 | 37 | 96 |
| 2019 | 27 | 96 | 123 |
| 2018 | 18 | 4 | 22 |
| 2017 | 85 | 2 | 87 |
| 2016 | 26 | 1 | 27 |
| 2015 | 42 | 18 | 60 |
| 2014 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 2013 | 81 | 33 | 114 |
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.
Other reports for Montbéliard
At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €105,120. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €409 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 12%
- Payment, one income
- 23%
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
- €937
- Owning per month
- €322
Figures for Doubs: Montbéliard has no reliable figures of its own.
7.6% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,788
In 2022 the population fell by 844 while 6 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 6
- Population change, 2022
- −844
16.5% of the 14,006 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 16.5%
- Empty homes
- 2,311