France number of newly built dwelling sales
France number of newly built dwelling sales stood at 20,419 Dwellings in Q2 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the House prices table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q1 2006 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the House prices table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of dwelling sales | 252,310 | 233,195 | 274,677 | 272,177 | 246,284 | 230,569 | 250,512 | 254,112 | 221,720 | 193,894 | |
| Newly built dwellings | 20,419 | 18,916 | 18,322 | 16,972 | 18,885 | 17,488 | 20,135 | 17,553 | 19,745 | 17,420 | |
| Existing dwellings | 231,892 | 214,280 | 256,354 | 255,205 | 227,399 | 213,081 | 230,378 | 236,559 | 201,975 | 176,474 |
Understanding france number of newly built dwelling sales
Physical sales volumes restricted strictly to newly constructed residential dwellings changing hands for the first time are captured in this sub-category. Excluded from this tally are pre-owned residential properties, major structural conversions of non-residential buildings into homes, and informal private transfers. This indicator isolates primary market activity, reflecting developer pipeline completions and first-time buyer demand for brand-new housing stock.
Reading this series requires awareness of construction completion timelines and regulatory approval lags that can cause sharp lumpiness in monthly or quarterly release data. Year-on-year comparisons offer a truer depiction of primary market health by smoothing out erratic project completion schedules. Users must not confuse this volume index with existing dwelling transactions, as newly built sales respond heavily to distinct developer financing conditions and land availability constraints.
Frequently asked questions
- What qualifies a dwelling as newly built in this dataset?
- Properties that have been recently constructed and are sold for the very first time are counted.
- Are major conversions of offices into apartments included?
- Typically, these are tracked separately from ground-up new construction units, depending on administrative reporting rules.
- Why can transaction counts show sudden spikes in this series?
- The simultaneous completion and mass delivery of large multi-family residential developments can cause lumpiness in quarterly counts.