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Renovation in Montluçon
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 Montluçon: 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 | 28 | 9 | 37 |
| 2023 | 11 | 30 | 41 |
| 2022 | 22 | 28 | 50 |
| 2021 | 82 | 4 | 86 |
| 2020 | 22 | 6 | 28 |
| 2019 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| 2018 | 16 | 10 | 26 |
| 2017 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| 2016 | 37 | 12 | 49 |
| 2015 | 7 | 18 | 25 |
| 2014 | 11 | 18 | 29 |
| 2013 | 22 | 8 | 30 |
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 €75,780. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €295 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 8%
- Payment, one income
- 16%
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
- €797
- Owning per month
- €217
Figures for Allier: Montluçon has no reliable figures of its own.
2.5% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 954
In 2022 the population fell by 170 while 11 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 11
- Population change, 2022
- −170
24.1% of the 24,133 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 24.1%
- Empty homes
- 5,805