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Renovation in Lunel
In 2025, 36% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 36%
Homes authorised in Lunel: 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 | 158 | 88 | 246 |
| 2024 | 334 | 21 | 355 |
| 2023 | 65 | 19 | 84 |
| 2022 | 258 | 28 | 286 |
| 2021 | 94 | 13 | 107 |
| 2020 | 65 | 4 | 69 |
| 2019 | 38 | 12 | 50 |
| 2018 | 51 | 4 | 55 |
| 2017 | 76 | 13 | 89 |
| 2016 | 39 | 6 | 45 |
| 2015 | 70 | 4 | 74 |
| 2014 | 36 | 13 | 49 |
| 2013 | 101 | 8 | 109 |
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 €244,260. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €951 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 26%
- Payment, one income
- 52%
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
- €1,351
- Owning per month
- €777
Figures for Hérault: Lunel has no reliable figures of its own.
32.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 7,624
In 2022 the population grew by 243 while 62 homes were started: 3.9 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 3.9
- Population change, 2022
- +243
5.6% of the 12,705 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.6%
- Empty homes
- 717