Perpignan · report
Renovation in Perpignan
In 2025, 59% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 59%
Homes authorised in Perpignan: 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 | 83 | 118 | 201 |
| 2024 | 286 | 60 | 346 |
| 2023 | 277 | 181 | 458 |
| 2022 | 411 | 52 | 463 |
| 2021 | 352 | 64 | 416 |
| 2020 | 553 | 134 | 687 |
| 2019 | 767 | 50 | 817 |
| 2018 | 662 | 16 | 678 |
| 2017 | 894 | 30 | 924 |
| 2016 | 777 | 20 | 797 |
| 2015 | 265 | 34 | 299 |
| 2014 | 326 | 59 | 385 |
| 2013 | 303 | 165 | 468 |
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 €146,070. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €569 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 18%
- Payment, one income
- 36%
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
- €1,096
- Owning per month
- €494
Figures for Pyrénées-Orientales: Perpignan has no reliable figures of its own.
34.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,428
In 2022 the population grew by 620 while 327 homes were started: 1.9 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.9
- Population change, 2022
- +620
14.6% of the 75,199 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 14.6%
- Empty homes
- 11,000