these medium-sized towns that are making a splash
Nearly one in two project promoters interested in new real estate is looking for a house and 48% of them want it built, according to a study by the SeLoger Construire site dedicated to the construction of houses.
Sales of single-family homes in France increased sharply according to the housing division of the French Building Federation (FFB) with an increase of 16.3% between the first half of 2021 and the first half of 2019.
And building permits increased by 17% in zones B2 and C (called “relaxed”) over the first seven months of 2021 compared to the first seven months of 2019, when they stabilized (1%) in the Abis zone, A and B1 (i.e. areas where there is a strong imbalance between real estate demand and supply).
The attraction for new homes should continue, using professionals in the sector, despite an average price per m² (excluding land) up 3% over one year (to € 1,456) on the national territory. It is experiencing double-digit increases in a dozen French cities.
Grand Est: increase in the number of building permits issued
The Grand-Est and the West are doing their best. In these territories, the granting of building permits has literally jumped according to figures from the Ministry of Housing, with + 38% in the Grand Est, + 31% in Brittany or + 27% in Pays de la Loire, if we compare the period September 2019-August 2020 to September 2020-August 2021.
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region also recorded a 24% increase in the number of building permits issued. It is lower in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region with however + 20% and in Bourgogne-Franche Comté with + 18%.
Romans-sur-Isère, Mâcon, Dole… rising prices in medium-sized towns
The average prices of new houses in Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme, jumped 21% (€ 1,491 per m²), excluding land, according to SeLoger.
Mâcon, in Saône-et-Loire, and Dole, in Jura, saw their prices increase by 12% to reach respectively 1,638 € and 1,540 € per m².
Bourgoin-Jallieu, Avignon … medium-sized towns that are popular
Ten cities concentrate the largest share of research on the SeLoger Construire site, including Bourgoin-Jallieu in Isère, Avignon in Vaucluse, Salon-de-Provence in Bouches-du-Rhône and Chartres in Eure-et-Loir.
The Loger study predicts that in these ten medium-sized cities, construction of new homes will increase sharply in the next two years.