Agde · report
Renovation in Agde
In 2025, 17% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 17%
Homes authorised in Agde: new buildings and existing ones
Dwellings authorised each year, by the year the permit was granted: in new buildings, and by works on existing buildings (conversions, extensions, changes of use). SDES Sitadel.
- Existing buildings
- New buildings
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| Year | New buildings | Existing buildings | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 213 | 43 | 256 |
| 2024 | 281 | 101 | 382 |
| 2023 | 922 | 112 | 1,034 |
| 2022 | 260 | 26 | 286 |
| 2021 | 446 | 66 | 512 |
| 2020 | 151 | 14 | 165 |
| 2019 | 673 | 9 | 682 |
| 2018 | 497 | 21 | 518 |
| 2017 | 601 | 9 | 610 |
| 2016 | 181 | 11 | 192 |
| 2015 | 253 | 6 | 259 |
| 2014 | 135 | 22 | 157 |
| 2013 | 526 | 14 | 540 |
Only permits that create dwellings are listed, so renovation that adds no home (refurbishing, insulating, re-roofing) is not counted. A permit is permission to build, not a finished home. The current year is left out until it is complete.
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At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €336,330. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,309 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 34%
- Payment, one income
- 68%
Owning and renting a 90 m² apartment cost about the same each month. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at apartments' median sale price; rent is the asking rent. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.
- Rent per month
- €1,181
- Owning per month
- €1,206
Figures for Hérault: Agde has no reliable figures of its own.
32.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 7,624
In 2022 the population grew by 327 while 616 homes were started: 0.5 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.5
- Population change, 2022
- +327
1.7% of the 50,728 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 1.7%
- Empty homes
- 875
Public bodies signed €2.7M of housing works here in 2025, and €5.4M since 2024.
- Signed in 2025
- €2.7M
- Per resident, 2025
- €90