Walloon Brabant: The price of houses continues to increase, "a tax guillotine that ruins households"

If in the collective imagination, to be able to build a house in Walloon Brabant, it is better to have a well-stocked bank account, the reality goes beyond fiction. While on average in Wallonia, we spend about 183 000 euros to buy a house, the average price of a house is higher … in the 27 Walloon Brabant communes!

On average, to afford a house in the Young Province, it will cost 316,000 euros. "And again, this amount is underestimated because of all the other expenses.Those who do not have two large and stable incomes, as a rule, the bank does not follow them and many have to leave the province for to go live elsewhere " specifies André Antoine, who has just published his" Almanac 2018. "

In terms of prices, it is on the side of Hélécine that houses are the cheapest: 217 000 euros in average. In contrast, it is no surprise in Lasne that homes are the most expensive: 533 000 euros on average! Almost three times more than the Walloon average!

Faced with this situation, the president of the Walloon Parliament is making some possible solutions. "The Province must take measures, starting with pre-financing registration fees for young households in the form of loans they could pay over 10 or 12 years." This would prevent this ruinous fiscal guillotine young households. "

The other proposal is the exemption of provincial additional fees for public housing, not to mention the reform of the Commons Fund. "An optimal reception of the new inhabitants will require in the coming years a reasoned approach of the communes currently less dense, by favoring for example the construction of flats, the renovation, or even the dismemberment of larger dwellings" concludes André Antoine.