Samoëns · report
Renovation in Samoëns
In 2025, 6% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 6%
Homes authorised in Samoëns: 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 | 221 | 15 | 236 |
| 2024 | 75 | 7 | 82 |
| 2023 | 213 | 3 | 216 |
| 2022 | 121 | 16 | 137 |
| 2021 | 63 | 34 | 97 |
| 2020 | 47 | 14 | 61 |
| 2019 | 187 | 4 | 191 |
| 2018 | 45 | 13 | 58 |
| 2017 | 28 | 5 | 33 |
| 2016 | 195 | 6 | 201 |
| 2015 | 52 | 7 | 59 |
| 2014 | 83 | 2 | 85 |
| 2013 | 52 | 9 | 61 |
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 €479,610. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,867 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 37%
- Payment, one income
- 73%
Renting a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than owning 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
- €1,562
- Owning per month
- €1,756
Figures for Haute-Savoie: Samoëns has no reliable figures of its own.
19.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,917
In 2022 the population grew by 10 while 31 homes were started: 0.3 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.3
- Population change, 2022
- +10
2.9% of the 5,532 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 2.9%
- Empty homes
- 161