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Renovation in Quimper
In 2025, 49% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 49%
Homes authorised in Quimper: 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 | 157 | 153 | 310 |
| 2024 | 578 | 81 | 659 |
| 2023 | 203 | 35 | 238 |
| 2022 | 625 | 23 | 648 |
| 2021 | 508 | 81 | 589 |
| 2020 | 321 | 39 | 360 |
| 2019 | 262 | 30 | 292 |
| 2018 | 360 | 19 | 379 |
| 2017 | 391 | 12 | 403 |
| 2016 | 242 | 26 | 268 |
| 2015 | 317 | 10 | 327 |
| 2014 | 200 | 19 | 219 |
| 2013 | 124 | 23 | 147 |
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 €201,330. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €784 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 18%
- Payment, one income
- 37%
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
- €1,079
- Owning per month
- €717
Figures for Finistère: Quimper has no reliable figures of its own.
8.9% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 6,778
In 2022 the population fell by 145 while 405 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 405
- Population change, 2022
- −145
8.1% of the 39,374 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.1%
- Empty homes
- 3,175