Cap-d'Ail · report
Renovation in Cap-d'Ail
In 2025, 75% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 75%
Homes authorised in Cap-d'Ail: 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 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 25 | 9 | 34 |
| 2023 | 10 | — | 10 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 18 | 9 | 27 |
| 2020 | 71 | 1 | 72 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 6 | 100 | 106 |
| 2016 | 6 | — | 6 |
| 2015 | 48 | — | 48 |
| 2013 | 26 | 2 | 28 |
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 €754,380. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €2,936 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 58%
- Payment, one income
- 116%
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
- €2,833
- Owning per month
- €2,661
Figures for Alpes-Maritimes: Cap-d'Ail has no reliable figures of its own.
31.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,444
13.3% of the 3,992 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 13.3%
- Empty homes
- 530