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Housing

France · Housing construction

Number of dwellings authorised or started; a leading barometer of the construction sector.· Dwellings started, all of France except Mayotte, monthly, raw estimates in real date· Latest months are estimates, revised in the following releases· National definitions differ (permits vs starts, coverage): not comparable between countries
74.2K
Q3 2026
+32.7 %vs Q3 2025
min 55.4K Q3 2024max 139.1K Q4 2017
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Source: SDES (ministère chargé du Logement), SDES · Sit@del2
Updated Oct 1, 2026
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