2023-08-19 14:07:00
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France champion of Europe
Here is another area where France is European champion. That of second homes.
Indeed, with 9.5% of its housing stock dedicated to secondary education – ie more than 3.5 million housing units – France comes first. Normal perhaps for one of the largest and most varied countries on the continent with hundreds of kilometers of coastline, numerous mountain and countryside areas, and even a few large cities that have been able to capitalize on the phenomenon to the point that 12% current secondary residences are urban.
It must be said that the desire is also there among the French with more than 40% of people who would like to one day become owners of a property of this kind. Covid effects and confinement perhaps with this desire to have somewhere, if possible not far, a pied-à-terre where to “decompress”?
The fact remains that the average profile of owners is still rather old, French (90%) and relatively well-off. Even if young people are more and more interested in it, the average age of new buyers is now rather in the 35-50 age bracket, it is still the over 60s who own two-thirds of the residences and form the bulk of the 13% of French holders.
As for the regions concerned by the “second home phenomenon”, if for a long time the coast was logically privileged, if only to spend summer holidays there, things are moving slowly.
As indicated, the desire to have a place of one’s own where to decompress, if not acting as a “semi-main residence”, pushes some to seek accommodation closer to these cities where a large part of the population lives. Even if it will still take quite a while before the usual champion departments in this area are dethroned.
This is how, following a vast survey carried out on the subject before the Covid, it is still the departments of the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var which remain the most popular ahead of Paris, whose situation is admittedly a bit special when the e are talking about second homes.
You can find more infographics on Statesman
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