Lons · report
Renovation in Lons
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 Lons: 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 | 32 | 2 | 34 |
| 2024 | 202 | 8 | 210 |
| 2023 | 103 | 7 | 110 |
| 2022 | 78 | 13 | 91 |
| 2021 | 168 | 8 | 176 |
| 2020 | 14 | 4 | 18 |
| 2019 | 93 | 13 | 106 |
| 2018 | 55 | 8 | 63 |
| 2017 | 72 | 5 | 77 |
| 2016 | 77 | 3 | 80 |
| 2015 | 180 | 3 | 183 |
| 2014 | 288 | — | 288 |
| 2013 | 138 | 13 | 151 |
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 €235,980. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €918 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
- €1,148
- Owning per month
- €864
Figures for Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Lons has no reliable figures of its own.
11.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,512
In 2022 the population fell by 102 while 53 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 53
- Population change, 2022
- −102
4.5% of the 6,915 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 4.5%
- Empty homes
- 310