La Teste-de-Buch · report
Renovation in La Teste-de-Buch
In 2025, 26% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 26%
Homes authorised in La Teste-de-Buch: 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 | 350 | 122 | 472 |
| 2024 | 399 | 22 | 421 |
| 2023 | 208 | 35 | 243 |
| 2022 | 311 | 44 | 355 |
| 2021 | 96 | 20 | 116 |
| 2020 | 103 | 50 | 153 |
| 2019 | 110 | 9 | 119 |
| 2018 | 239 | 8 | 247 |
| 2017 | 326 | 86 | 412 |
| 2016 | 550 | 9 | 559 |
| 2015 | 341 | 20 | 361 |
| 2014 | 655 | 74 | 729 |
| 2013 | 300 | 139 | 439 |
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 €432,270. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,682 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 36%
- Payment, one income
- 72%
Renting a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than owning 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
- €1,348
- Owning per month
- €1,451
Figures for Gironde: La Teste-de-Buch has no reliable figures of its own.
27.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 11,095
In 2022 the population grew by 425 while 145 homes were started: 2.9 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.9
- Population change, 2022
- +425
3.7% of the 20,222 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 3.7%
- Empty homes
- 739