Nancy · report
Renovation in Nancy
In 2025, 45% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 45%
Homes authorised in Nancy: 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 | 236 | 192 | 428 |
| 2024 | 397 | 182 | 579 |
| 2023 | 91 | 53 | 144 |
| 2022 | 479 | 504 | 983 |
| 2021 | 365 | 541 | 906 |
| 2020 | 369 | 206 | 575 |
| 2019 | 668 | 78 | 746 |
| 2018 | 550 | 50 | 600 |
| 2017 | 631 | 37 | 668 |
| 2016 | 56 | 88 | 144 |
| 2015 | 396 | 45 | 441 |
| 2014 | 180 | 132 | 312 |
| 2013 | 157 | 211 | 368 |
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 €207,270. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €807 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 20%
- Payment, one income
- 39%
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
- €1,094
- Owning per month
- €752
Figures for Meurthe-et-Moselle: Nancy 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 716 while 792 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 792
- Population change, 2022
- −716
12.0% of the 73,117 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 12.0%
- Empty homes
- 8,781