Balma · report
Renovation in Balma
In 2025, 1% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 1%
Homes authorised in Balma: 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 | 201 | 3 | 204 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1 | 15 |
| 2023 | 27 | 3 | 30 |
| 2022 | 24 | — | 24 |
| 2021 | 177 | 52 | 229 |
| 2020 | 295 | 1 | 296 |
| 2019 | 182 | 33 | 215 |
| 2018 | 21 | 1 | 22 |
| 2017 | 77 | 3 | 80 |
| 2016 | 264 | 1 | 265 |
| 2015 | 233 | 4 | 237 |
| 2014 | 49 | 8 | 57 |
| 2013 | 479 | 4 | 483 |
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 €305,910. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,191 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 23%
- Payment, one income
- 45%
Owning a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than renting it. 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
- €1,219
- Owning per month
- €1,078
Figures for Haute-Garonne: Balma has no reliable figures of its own.
26.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 10,686
In 2022 the population grew by 341 while 209 homes were started: 1.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.6
- Population change, 2022
- +341
5.7% of the 8,825 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.7%
- Empty homes
- 506