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Renovation in Carcassonne
In 2025, 73% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 73%
Homes authorised in Carcassonne: 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 | 35 | 97 | 132 |
| 2024 | 28 | 114 | 142 |
| 2023 | 24 | 214 | 238 |
| 2022 | 32 | 47 | 79 |
| 2021 | 336 | 63 | 399 |
| 2020 | 28 | 23 | 51 |
| 2019 | 35 | 104 | 139 |
| 2018 | 25 | 7 | 32 |
| 2017 | 68 | 8 | 76 |
| 2016 | 153 | 6 | 159 |
| 2015 | 54 | 23 | 77 |
| 2014 | 17 | 45 | 62 |
| 2013 | 95 | 13 | 108 |
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 €129,240. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €503 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 14%
- Payment, one income
- 28%
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
- €985
- Owning per month
- €426
Figures for Aude: Carcassonne has no reliable figures of its own.
1.1% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,163
In 2022 the population fell by 349 while 63 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 63
- Population change, 2022
- −349
9.3% of the 27,566 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 9.3%
- Empty homes
- 2,571
Public bodies signed €1.6M of housing works here in 2025, and €1.9M since 2024.
- Signed in 2025
- €1.6M
- Per resident, 2025
- €34