Building Permits in France increased to 37886 Units in September from 27573 Units in August of 2025. This dataset provides - France Housing Permits- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Graph and download economic data for Orders: Construction: Permits Issued: Dwellings and Residential Buildings for France (ODCNPI03FRQ659S) from Q1 1956 to Q3 2025 about issues, France, permits, residential, construction, and housing.

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The total number of building permits issued for residential property construction in France fluctuated significantly between 2006 and 2020. While over *** thousand permits were issued in 2006 in France, the total had fallen to below *** thousand building permits issued in a year by 2020.

This statistic shows the change in index for building permits issued for residential buildings' construction (calculated for the number of dwellings) in France from 2008 to 2017. The index reached ***** points in 2008 and since has risen to ***** points in 2017.

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Graph and download economic data for Orders: Construction: Permits Issued: Dwellings and Residential Buildings for France (ODCNPI03FRQ180S) from Q1 1960 to Q3 2023 about issues, France, permits, residential, construction, and housing.

This statistic shows the rate of change of building permits issued for residential buildings' construction (calculated for the number of dwellings) in France from 2008 to 2017. The number of building permits issued was falling from 2012 to 2014.

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In 2023, France was the country in contenental Europe with the most floor area of non-residential buildings approved by building permits. Approximately **** million square meters of non-residential buildings were approved for construction in France that year. Turkey and Germany were the next countries with the most area of commercial buildings approved.

France's Building Construction industry has faced tumultuous times in recent years, marked by shifting market dynamics and fluctuating economic conditions. Construction companies enjoyed a period of strong growth before the pandemic, driven by escalating house prices and a recovering economy. However, COVID-19 brought severe disruption. Public health restrictions halted ongoing projects and led to a significant slump in building permits issued for both residential and non-residential buildings. Despite rebounding once restrictions eased, revenue is yet to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels. Revenue is forecast to climb at a compound annual rate of 1.2% over the five years through 2025, reaching €89 billion. Lingering supply chain disruption continued to push up costs in the aftermath of the pandemic. This trend was exacerbated by soaring energy and commodity prices from mid-2021, weighing on construction contractors’ profitability and discouraging investment in new developments. Following this, high borrowing costs created a subdued housing market, contributing to lower housing starts over the last couple of years. Meanwhile, input cost hikes and a general economic slowdown have led to developers scaling back investment plans. Despite a sluggish housing market, revenue is set to return to growth in 2025 – it’s slated to creep up by 2.7%. Revenue is forecast to swell at a compound annual rate of 3.6% over the five years through 2030 to reach €106.1 billion. Strengthening economic growth should spur an uplift in new orders in the short term, while France’s housing shortage should ensure healthy demand in the residential market. Public support and heightened environmental requirements will boost demand for renovation works in the coming years. Developers focused on office and retail markets are likely to continue to focus on repurposing their existing portfolios to meet evolving consumer needs.

Building permits for homes in the European Union (EU-27) experienced a significant decline betwen 2021 and 2024. In 2021, permits were approved for **** million housing units. However, by 2024, this number fell to **** million. The year when housing permits decreased the most was 2023, when housing permits were **** percent lower than the previous year. Among those approvals, nearly twice as many multifamily units were permitted compared to single-family homes. Which country built more homes? Despite the overall decline in EU building permits, individual countries showed varying levels of residential construction activity. Turkey had the highest number of housing units approved by building permits in 2023, with more than ******* units. France followed with ******* units. However, that was partly so because they were the largest countries in Europe. When comparing the number of construction starts of new residential properties per 1,000 citizens, Ireland led with approximately **** new residences per 1,000 citizens, while Italy had only **** new residences per 1,000 citizens.

Real estate investment outlook The decrease in building permits aligns with shifting sentiments in the European real estate industry. According to a 2024 survey of industry experts, investment prospects for house building declined after 2022. However, the prospect score for real estate investment in 2025 increased to **** out of 5 (on a scale from 1 = poor to 5 = excellent). These trends suggest that, despite challenges in residential construction, real estate development activities may start growing again.

The European country with most housing units approved by building permits in 2023 was Turkey. France was the second country in that ranking, which did not include all major European countries. That year, the construction of 323,290 homes was approved by building permits in France.

The number of housing units authorized for construction in Italy has remained relatively stable between 2014 and 2024. However, Italy's residential construction sector experienced a significant decline in the decade after 2005. In the second quarter of that year, over ****** homes were authorized by permits. In contrast, by the third quarter of 2024, only ****** housing units were authorized. This decline was also reflected in the useful floor area of authorized housing projects, which fell from over ** million square meters in 2005 to less than five million square meters in 2023. Italy had the third largest construction industry In 2023, Italy was among the top three European countries in terms of construction turnover, after Germany and France. At *** percent, the constribution of the construction industry to Italy's GDP in 2024 was lower than that of other European countries like Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. However, it still made up a higher share of its economy than in Germany and France, placing it close to the average for Europe.

Construction costs in Italy decrease Italy was one of the few countries in Europe that saw the cost of building new residential buildings fall in 2024, reaching a rate of ***** percent. Meanwhile, the housing construction costs in the EU grew on average by *** percent. That has followed several years of high construction costs in Italy, having reached rates of *** percent in 2022.

*** Date of update: 01/01/2022 Location of approvals authorised by the State in Ile-de-France for real estate operations subject to a building permit or a prior declaration of works between 2008 and 2021. The approval constitutes a preliminary authorisation by the State (Prefect of the region) specific in Ile-de-France necessary for the implementation of certain real estate operations subject to a building permit or a prior declaration of works. These operations are the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or extension of premises for industrial, administrative, technical, scientific, teaching or warehousing of any natural or legal person governed by private or public law, where its scope falls largely within the competitive sector.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This version (V3) of the dataset is based on aerial imagery from 2024 (month depends on department) and cadastral data from January 2025. It features: updates for 27 departments: 01, 02, 04, 11, 17, 23, 24, 29, 30, 33, 34, 38, 40, 47, 56, 60, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68, 73, 80, 84, 87, 2A, 2B 7 new departments: 77, 78, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95 Data for other departments is not reuploaded in this version of the dataset. Please use the version selector and goes to V2 to access older data for these departments. This dataset contains images of the rooftops of French buildings, with a large portion of the images from metropolitan France available. Ultimately, it will include around 40,000,000 images, organized by department. This dataset is related to the scientific publication "Thebault, Nerot, Govehovitch, Ménézo - A comprehensive building-wise Residential Photovoltaic system detection in heterogeneous urban and rural areas: application to French territories" Applied Energy, 2025, doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125630 Aerial Land Imagery The aerial imagery used in this study comes from the Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN), the French national geographic institute. These images are provided in 25 km² RGB tiles with a resolution of 20 cm. The tiles are organized by French department and are freely accessible as JP2 raster files BD Ortho - Institut National Géographique. All the imagery utilized in this project is less than four years old. The availability of department-level imagery is fundamental to our methodology, as both cadastral data processing and the analysis of CNN model predictions are performed at this geographic scale. Building Registry The location and geometry of each building were extracted from a national building registry distributed by the French Etalab project. For each French department, a single SHP file is provided, containing building geometries stored as polygon features. Data Post-Processing Both raster (aerial imagery) and vector (building registry) data were processed using PyQGIS via QGIS. The preprocessing of vector data follows several steps. First, polygons with an area smaller than 10 m² were discarded, as they typically represent small, likely non-residential buildings, which are unlikely to host PV panels. Next, a 4-meter buffer was applied to each polygon to account for the frequent spatial discrepancies between the building registry and the actual building locations. To include additional contextual information in each final image and accommodate these shifts, each polygon was replaced with its oriented rectangular bounding box, minimizing the area of the box. Finally, the X and Y coordinates and a department-based unique identifier were added to each polygon feature. Creation of Building Images Each building polygon was intersected with the corresponding aerial imagery raster to generate a cropped image. These images were saved to individual files. For example, the Herault department (34), one of the more populated regions of France, contains approximately 700,000 images, with an average image size of 120x120 pixels. Notably, 97.9% of these images are smaller than 250x250 pixels. Approximately 1.5% of buildings span multiple raster tiles, resulting in final images that do not fully capture the entire rooftop. Ce jeu de donnée contient les images des toitures des batiments Française, une grande partie des images du territoire métropolitain Français sont disponible. A terme il contiendra environ 40 000 000 images, organisées par départements. Imagerie aérienne L’imagerie aérienne utilisée dans cette étude provient de l’Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN), l’institut géographique national français. Ces images sont fournies sous forme de tuiles RGB de 25 km² avec une résolution de 20 cm. Les tuiles sont organisées par département français et sont accessibles gratuitement en tant que fichiers raster JP2 (BD Ortho - Institut National Géographique). Toutes les images utilisées dans ce projet ont moins de quatre ans. La disponibilité d’images aériennes à l’échelle départementale est fondamentale pour notre méthodologie, car à la fois le traitement des données cadastrales et l’analyse des prédictions du modèle CNN sont effectués à cette échelle géographique. Registre des bâtiments La localisation et la géométrie de chaque bâtiment ont été extraites d’un registre national des bâtiments distribué par le projet Etalab en France. Pour chaque département français, un fichier SHP unique est fourni, contenant les géométries des bâtiments sous forme de polygones. Post-traitement des données Les fichiers raster (imagerie aérienne) et vectoriels (registre des bâtiments) ont été traités avec PyQGIS via QGIS. Le prétraitement des données vectorielles suit plusieurs étapes. Tout d’abord, les polygones ayant une surface inférieure à 10 m² ont été exclus, car ils représentent généralement des petits bâtiments,...

*** Date of update: 01/01/2022 Location of approvals authorised by the State in Ile-de-France for real estate operations subject to a building permit or a prior declaration of works between 2008 and 2021. The approval constitutes a preliminary authorisation by the State (Prefect of the region) specific in Ile-de-France necessary for the implementation of certain real estate operations subject to a building permit or a prior declaration of works. These operations are the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or extension of premises for industrial, administrative, technical, scientific, teaching or warehousing of any natural or legal person governed by private or public law, where its scope falls largely within the competitive sector.

Structural metal product manufacturers have operated in volatile market conditions over the past five years. Although sustained construction activity in France ensured continued demand for the industry's products, manufacturers faced volatile raw material and energy prices as well as supply constraints. Aluminium and steel prices surged in 2021 due to strong pent-up demand and shortages of raw materials and intermediates. The outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022 exacerbated the rise in energy prices. After significant growth in 2021 and 2022, producers faced challenges in 2023 and 2024 due to subdued market demand and a slowdown in construction activity, particularly in the residential sector. This reduced demand for structural and finishing elements and led to lower revenue. The industry is operating in a slightly better market environment in the current year. French production volume is expected to climb, and the construction sector should see an increase in building permits as a result of falling interest rates since the summer of 2024. Rising public investment in construction should also stimulate demand in the infrastructure sector. Revenue is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 4.6% over the five years through 2025 to reach €20.9 billion, including an estimated rise of 2.2% in 2025. Over the next few years, IBISWorld expects growth to continue, albeit at a slower pace. Over the five years through 2030, revenue is anticipated to inch up at a compound annual rate of 0.2% to €21.2 billion. Increasing competition from Eastern European suppliers will continue to challenge industry players, who are responding by focusing more on higher-priced products. At the same time, the increase in energy-efficient renovations is likely to boost demand for structural metal products.

Wind energy is produced from the wind force, thanks to a wind turbine, which transforms the mechanical energy of the wind into electrical energy. Connected to a generator, it consists of a mast on which is attached a propeller that turns the wind. Onshore wind is distinguished from offshore wind — or offshore wind (having more frequent, stronger and more regular winds than on land). Depending on its height, a wind turbine may be subject to a building permit (for wind turbines over 12 m high), an impact assessment (for wind turbines over 50 m high) or a notice (for wind turbines less than 50 m high). This table contains only those turbines whose construction permit has been granted. Since the “Grenelle II” National Environmental Commitment Act, a minimum distance threshold has been introduced between future wind turbine installations and homes. In the absence of precision in the building permit, the rules of retreat from public roads or right-of-way and separative limits apply at any point of the wind turbine, at the end of the blade in a horizontal position. In addition, the operation of wind turbines will be subject to the authorisation scheme for installations classified for environmental protection (ICPE).

Wind energy is produced from the wind force, thanks to a wind turbine, which transforms the mechanical energy of the wind into electrical energy. Connected to a generator, it consists of a mast on which is attached a propeller that turns the wind. Onshore wind is distinguished from offshore wind — or offshore wind (having more frequent, stronger and more regular winds than on land). Depending on its height, a wind turbine may be subject to a building permit (for wind turbines over 12 m high), an impact assessment (for wind turbines over 50 m high) or a notice (for wind turbines less than 50 m high). This table contains only those turbines whose construction permit has been granted. Since the “Grenelle II” National Environmental Commitment Act, a minimum distance threshold has been introduced between future wind turbine installations and homes. In the absence of precision in the building permit, the rules of retreat from public roads or right-of-way and separative limits apply at any point of the wind turbine, at the end of the blade in a horizontal position. In addition, the operation of wind turbines will be subject to the authorisation scheme for installations classified for environmental protection (ICPE).