Hotel conversions in Paris: 2,115 approved applications and over 532,000 m² transformed since 2013

Since 2013, the public Sitadel database records 2,115 approved applications in Paris (excluding cancelled applications) creating hotel-type accommodation (hébergement hôtelier) floor space through the transformation of existing premises. In total, that amounts to over 532,000 m² (532,317 m² to be exact) of transformed floor space, including 114,089 m² of net new floor space and 3,264 rooms declared.

As a benchmark for momentum, 201 of these applications have been approved since 2024: the shift towards legal year-round tourist accommodation has by no means run out of steam. It is also worth noting that 350 applications were cancelled over the period; they are excluded from all the figures cited here.

Three families of origin clearly dominate Paris approvals:

• Offices: 996 applications, the leading origin across the capital;
• Shops: 890 applications, almost level with offices;
• Dwellings: 180 applications, far behind.

This trio sums up the essentials: in Paris, hotel-type accommodation is created first and foremost from vacant offices and ground-floor retail units, not from residential housing. To explore a specific address or street, the Paris conversions observatory allows a fine-grained search.

The number of approved applications draws a very clear hierarchy, dominated by the historic centre and the centre-west:

• Paris 3rd: 267 applications, 38,739 m² transformed, 74 rooms;
• Paris 2nd: 242 applications, 40,311 m², 297 rooms;
• Paris 8th: 202 applications, 111,951 m², 853 rooms;
• Paris 11th: 149 applications, 19,606 m², 284 rooms;
• Paris 1st: 144 applications, 36,343 m², 141 rooms;
• Paris 10th: 132 applications, 27,742 m², 129 rooms;
• Paris 15th: 122 applications, 30,216 m², 117 rooms;
• Paris 7th: 118 applications, 47,113 m²;
• Paris 9th: 109 applications, 23,695 m², 194 rooms;
• Paris 4th: 94 applications, 14,685 m², 33 rooms;
• Paris 17th: 86 applications, 13,990 m², 202 rooms;
• Paris 18th: 81 applications, 18,896 m², 104 rooms;
• Paris 16th: 78 applications, 26,289 m², 174 rooms;
• Paris 6th: 60 applications, 14,916 m², 25 rooms;
• Paris 5th: 55 applications, 10,321 m², 29 rooms;
• Paris 12th: 43 applications, 25,828 m², 502 rooms;
• Paris 14th: 39 applications, 8,541 m², 14 rooms;
• Paris 20th: 37 applications, 2,840 m²;
• Paris 19th: 31 applications, 15,977 m²;
• Paris 13th: 26 applications, 4,318 m², 91 rooms.

The 3rd arrondissement leads on the number of applications, but the 8th crushes the ranking on floor space with nearly 112,000 m² transformed and 853 rooms — the hallmark of large-scale projects. Each arrondissement has its own dedicated page: see, for example, the landing pages for each arrondissement.

The most structuring data point is the origin of the transformed premises, which splits Paris into two distinct logics.

The centre-west is office territory. In the 8th, 155 of the 202 applications come from offices; in the 1st, 94 out of 144; in the 16th, 52 out of 78; in the 7th, 50 out of 118. These office-heavy arrondissements have a stock of ageing or partially vacant office buildings, whose conversion into hotels or tourist residences has become a common asset-management trade-off.

The east and north lean more towards retail. In the 11th, 85 of the 149 applications start from shops; in the 10th, 69 out of 132; in the 18th, 45 out of 81; in the 17th, 50 out of 86; in the 14th, 29 out of 39. The ground-floor retail fabric, denser in these neighbourhoods, feeds generally smaller projects.

The 3rd arrondissement stands as a hinge: 138 applications from offices, 101 from shops — a mixed profile typical of the northern Marais. Conversely, the share of dwellings remains marginal everywhere, with a relative peak in the 7th (45 applications) where the Haussmann-era residential stock feeds part of the transformations. To understand the framework applicable to tourist letting in Paris, our guide to letting in Paris details the rules to know before embarking on any project.

Comparing the number of rooms with the transformed floor space speaks volumes about the nature of the projects. Some arrondissements show many rooms for a modest floor space, others the opposite.

The 12th arrondissement is the most striking case: 502 rooms declared for 25,828 m² and only 43 applications. It therefore hosts dense operations, geared towards high-capacity hotel-type accommodation. At the other end, the 7th arrondissement shows 47,113 m² transformed but zero rooms declared in the applications: a sign of projects where the hotel destination is registered without a breakdown into rooms at the authorisation stage, or of large-scale conversions in a different format.

The 8th combines floor space and capacity (853 rooms, nearly 112,000 m²), consistent with large office assets. The 2nd concentrates 297 rooms across 40,311 m², a classic urban hotel profile. These disparities confirm that a single label — "hotel-type accommodation" — covers very different realities depending on the arrondissement, from a small legal year-round short-term rental (meublé de tourisme) to a hotel with several dozen keys.

The most recent applications shed light on the active areas. Since 2024, the 3rd arrondissement has led comfortably with 51 new applications, ahead of the 16th (20), the 8th and the 4th (19 each), then the 17th (12) and the 2nd (11).

A few recent approvals illustrate the diversity of operations:

• Paris 1st, 8 rue Villedo: 1,528 m² from offices, approved on 11 May 2026;
• Paris 2nd, 8 rue Saint-Augustin: 981 m² of shops, approved on 24 April 2026;
• Paris 8th, 57 rue d'Amsterdam: 637 m² of offices, approved on 18 April 2026;
• Paris 6th, 10 rue Cassette: 175 m² of shops, approved on 16 April 2026;
• Paris 4th, 1 rue Saint-Louis en l'Île: 166 m² from dwellings, approved on 10 April 2026.

These examples confirm the overall atlas: large office volumes in the west, finer, mixed operations in the historic core. For an owner, every successful conversion rests on a rigorous change of destination structure. Our team supports these applications from start to finish: discover our change of destination to hotel use service, and locate your address in the Sitadel observatory.

The figures in this article come from the Sitadel database (SDES, French Ministry for the Ecological Transition), which records planning authorisations. The scope covers applications creating hotel-type accommodation floor space through the transformation of existing premises, since 2013. Unless otherwise stated, all figures relate to approved applications excluding cancelled applications (350 cancelled applications excluded). The room counts correspond to the values declared in the applications; their absence does not imply the absence of a project. Data vintage: 2026-07.