Comines · report
Renovation in Comines
In 2025, 92% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 92%
Homes authorised in Comines: 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 | 5 | 59 | 64 |
| 2024 | 151 | 6 | 157 |
| 2023 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2022 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9 | 20 |
| 2020 | 159 | 3 | 162 |
| 2019 | 107 | — | 107 |
| 2018 | 60 | 38 | 98 |
| 2017 | 158 | — | 158 |
| 2016 | 201 | 2 | 203 |
| 2015 | 3 | — | 3 |
| 2014 | 17 | 12 | 29 |
| 2013 | 59 | 4 | 63 |
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 €209,160. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €814 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
- €1,171
- Owning per month
- €783
Figures for Nord: Comines has no reliable figures of its own.
10.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 12,139
In 2022 the population grew by 82 while 7 homes were started: 11.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 11.7
- Population change, 2022
- +82
5.0% of the 5,571 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.0%
- Empty homes
- 281