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Renovation in Guipavas
In 2025, 11% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 11%
Homes authorised in Guipavas: 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 | 50 | 6 | 56 |
| 2024 | 118 | 13 | 131 |
| 2023 | 329 | 7 | 336 |
| 2022 | 105 | 2 | 107 |
| 2021 | 193 | 3 | 196 |
| 2020 | 123 | 2 | 125 |
| 2019 | 183 | — | 183 |
| 2018 | 202 | 14 | 216 |
| 2017 | 304 | 7 | 311 |
| 2016 | 64 | 2 | 66 |
| 2015 | 163 | 1 | 164 |
| 2014 | 123 | 1 | 124 |
| 2013 | 101 | 2 | 103 |
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 €233,730. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €910 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 19%
- Payment, one income
- 38%
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
- €1,147
- Owning per month
- €924
Figures for Finistère: Guipavas has no reliable figures of its own.
8.9% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 6,778
In 2022 the population grew by 137 while 152 homes were started: 0.9 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.9
- Population change, 2022
- +137
4.1% of the 7,115 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 4.1%
- Empty homes
- 294