Niort · report
Renovation in Niort
In 2025, 31% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 31%
Homes authorised in Niort: 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 | 374 | 166 | 540 |
| 2024 | 309 | 100 | 409 |
| 2023 | 295 | 58 | 353 |
| 2022 | 355 | 171 | 526 |
| 2021 | 233 | 60 | 293 |
| 2020 | 187 | 102 | 289 |
| 2019 | 43 | 25 | 68 |
| 2018 | 133 | 33 | 166 |
| 2017 | 168 | 126 | 294 |
| 2016 | 181 | 9 | 190 |
| 2015 | 208 | 8 | 216 |
| 2014 | 395 | 26 | 421 |
| 2013 | 246 | 36 | 282 |
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 €181,890. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €708 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
- €1,040
- Owning per month
- €646
Figures for Deux-Sèvres: Niort has no reliable figures of its own.
30.8% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,834
In 2022 the population fell by 220 while 269 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 269
- Population change, 2022
- −220
8.0% of the 35,745 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.0%
- Empty homes
- 2,844