The phenomenon is worrying in French cities, and Nantes is no exception to the trend: new housing has been at half mast for several months. “The drop in sales volumes is 22% between 2021 and 2022, confirms this Thursday Bertrand Mours, president of the new housing observatory of Pays-de-la-Loire (Oloma). It even reached 60% for the last quarter. In 2022, with 1,604 net sales, the metropolis even represented less than 40% of sales in the region, compared to almost two-thirds in 2016 seven years ago.
Because in the face of this demand which is becoming scarce, due to an economic and political context less favorable to buyers, the metropolis has been confronted with a problem of supply for several years. If the Local Housing Plan provided for the construction of 6,000 housing units per year, the account is not there, with deadlines for carrying out real estate programs which are getting longer, the objective of zero artificialisation, but also “the problem of acceptance by the inhabitants.
According to Oloma, it is “urgent” for the Nantes metropolis, where prices are up 6%, to “unblock land for construction” before launching a reflection on spaces “already artificialized but not intensified enough “. The observatory, which fears that the situation will not improve for at least four years and recalls that the territory continues to attract, recommends looking at the entrances to the city, where additional housing might coexist with the shops.
