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Renovation in Bidart
In 2025, 80% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 80%
Homes authorised in Bidart: 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 | 20 | 78 | 98 |
| 2024 | 168 | — | 168 |
| 2023 | 12 | 3 | 15 |
| 2022 | 178 | 4 | 182 |
| 2021 | 139 | 5 | 144 |
| 2020 | 47 | 12 | 59 |
| 2019 | 29 | 3 | 32 |
| 2018 | 19 | 46 | 65 |
| 2017 | 111 | 42 | 153 |
| 2016 | 154 | 9 | 163 |
| 2015 | 16 | 73 | 89 |
| 2014 | 228 | 10 | 238 |
| 2013 | 27 | 6 | 33 |
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 €578,610. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €2,252 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 49%
- Payment, one income
- 97%
Renting a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than owning 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
- €1,429
- Owning per month
- €2,024
Figures for Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Bidart has no reliable figures of its own.
11.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,512
In 2022 the population grew by 15 while 43 homes were started: 0.3 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.3
- Population change, 2022
- +15
3.1% of the 5,720 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 3.1%
- Empty homes
- 176