Velaux · report
Renovation in Velaux
In 2025, 0% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 0%
Homes authorised in Velaux: 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 | 5 | — | 5 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2023 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2022 | 33 | — | 33 |
| 2021 | 8 | — | 8 |
| 2020 | 115 | 3 | 118 |
| 2019 | 71 | 1 | 72 |
| 2018 | 11 | 2 | 13 |
| 2017 | 48 | — | 48 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1 | 19 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1 | 16 |
| 2014 | 31 | 2 | 33 |
| 2013 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
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 €394,290. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,535 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 28%
- Payment, one income
- 56%
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
- €1,427
- Owning per month
- €1,163
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: Velaux has no reliable figures of its own.
24.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,951
In 2022 the population grew by 114 while 13 homes were started: 8.8 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 8.8
- Population change, 2022
- +114
3.1% of the 3,928 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 3.1%
- Empty homes
- 123