Cherbourg-en-Cotentin · report
Renovation in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
In 2025, 21% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 21%
Homes authorised in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin: 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 | 169 | 44 | 213 |
| 2024 | 213 | 120 | 333 |
| 2023 | 193 | 48 | 241 |
| 2022 | 336 | 44 | 380 |
| 2021 | 158 | 40 | 198 |
| 2020 | 120 | 45 | 165 |
| 2019 | 313 | 36 | 349 |
| 2018 | 358 | 38 | 396 |
| 2017 | 171 | 13 | 184 |
| 2016 | 137 | 18 | 155 |
| 2015 | 160 | 56 | 216 |
| 2014 | 136 | 16 | 152 |
| 2013 | 99 | 26 | 125 |
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 €210,330. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €819 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 19%
- Payment, one income
- 39%
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
- €1,135
- Owning per month
- €769
Figures for Manche: Cherbourg-en-Cotentin has no reliable figures of its own.
4.2% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,181
In 2022 the population grew by 230 while 159 homes were started: 1.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.4
- Population change, 2022
- +230
5.9% of the 44,139 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.9%
- Empty homes
- 2,599