Villabé · report
Renovation in Villabé
In 2025, 50% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 50%
Homes authorised in Villabé: 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 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 5 | — | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 | — | 5 |
| 2021 | 126 | — | 126 |
| 2020 | 145 | 6 | 151 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 140 | — | 140 |
| 2017 | 209 | 12 | 221 |
| 2016 | 9 | — | 9 |
| 2015 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 11 | 5 | 16 |
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 €276,480. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,076 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 23%
- Payment, one income
- 46%
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
- €1,450
- Owning per month
- €929
Figures for Essonne: Villabé has no reliable figures of its own.
33.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 5,659
In 2022 the population grew by 176 while 69 homes were started: 2.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.6
- Population change, 2022
- +176
10.8% of the 2,446 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 10.8%
- Empty homes
- 264