For real estate, the weather is more than uncertain.
Second homes, which 40% of French people dream of, according to the luxury real estate group Mercure, are no exception to the rule.
In France, we have just under 4 million (3.7 million exactly, or 9.8% of the total housing stock), according to INSEE.
This is almost twice as much as 40 years ago.
The Covid-19 crisis has given a second life to second homes which are a little busier than in the past thanks to the concept of semi-main residence which began to develop two and a half years ago.
In other words, more and more households, including those in their thirties or forties, are moving into their second home, no longer for a few days a year,
The dynamic is clearly on the side of second homes (+62% since 1982) and... vacant housing (+64.6%), according to INSEE.
Principal residences, for their part, fell further (+55%).
It is therefore not surprising that, like empty dwellings, second homes have become the cash cows of communities.
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The mayors are faced with a dilemma: to continue to make these areas attractive where second homes are very concentrated, while preventing them from becoming ghettos of the rich and empty for a good part of the year
", deciphers Pierre Madec, economist at the French Economic Observatory…
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