Villars-les-Dombes · report
Renovation in Villars-les-Dombes
In 2025, 8% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 8%
Homes authorised in Villars-les-Dombes: 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 | 24 | 2 | 26 |
| 2024 | 54 | 23 | 77 |
| 2023 | 39 | 2 | 41 |
| 2022 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2021 | 27 | 8 | 35 |
| 2020 | 50 | 2 | 52 |
| 2019 | 33 | 5 | 38 |
| 2018 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2017 | 26 | 1 | 27 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1 | 16 |
| 2015 | 31 | 1 | 32 |
| 2014 | 58 | — | 58 |
| 2013 | 138 | 2 | 140 |
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 €251,550. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €979 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 22%
- Payment, one income
- 43%
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
- €1,174
- Owning per month
- €906
Figures for Ain: Villars-les-Dombes has no reliable figures of its own.
23.3% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,238
In 2022 the population grew by 104 while 10 homes were started: 10.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 10.4
- Population change, 2022
- +104
7.7% of the 2,517 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.7%
- Empty homes
- 193