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Renovation in Gap
In 2025, 12% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 12%
Homes authorised in Gap: 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 | 256 | 34 | 290 |
| 2024 | 218 | 14 | 232 |
| 2023 | 303 | 54 | 357 |
| 2022 | 463 | 50 | 513 |
| 2021 | 574 | 25 | 599 |
| 2020 | 214 | 12 | 226 |
| 2019 | 170 | 114 | 284 |
| 2018 | 189 | 7 | 196 |
| 2017 | 319 | 21 | 340 |
| 2016 | 247 | 37 | 284 |
| 2015 | 159 | 8 | 167 |
| 2014 | 88 | 6 | 94 |
| 2013 | 66 | 10 | 76 |
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 €219,780. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €855 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 20%
- Payment, one income
- 40%
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
- €1,112
- Owning per month
- €753
Figures for Hautes-Alpes: Gap has no reliable figures of its own.
18.2% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,178
In 2022 the population grew by 637 while 172 homes were started: 3.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 3.7
- Population change, 2022
- +637
8.1% of the 23,628 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.1%
- Empty homes
- 1,917