Limoux · report
Renovation in Limoux
In 2025, 6% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 6%
Homes authorised in Limoux: 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 | 58 | 4 | 62 |
| 2024 | 55 | 43 | 98 |
| 2023 | 47 | 7 | 54 |
| 2022 | 101 | 13 | 114 |
| 2021 | 164 | — | 164 |
| 2020 | 60 | 1 | 61 |
| 2019 | 117 | 2 | 119 |
| 2018 | 59 | 2 | 61 |
| 2017 | 41 | 23 | 64 |
| 2016 | 36 | 5 | 41 |
| 2015 | 119 | — | 119 |
| 2014 | 13 | 5 | 18 |
| 2013 | 92 | — | 92 |
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 €137,250. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €534 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 15%
- Payment, one income
- 29%
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
- €834
- Owning per month
- €380
Figures for Aude: Limoux has no reliable figures of its own.
1.1% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,163
In 2022 the population grew by 193 while 28 homes were started: 6.9 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 6.9
- Population change, 2022
- +193
10.2% of the 6,096 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 10.2%
- Empty homes
- 621