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Renovation in Pia
In 2025, 12% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 12%
Homes authorised in Pia: 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 | 51 | 7 | 58 |
| 2024 | 34 | 2 | 36 |
| 2023 | 42 | 9 | 51 |
| 2022 | 145 | 2 | 147 |
| 2021 | 278 | 10 | 288 |
| 2020 | 166 | 2 | 168 |
| 2019 | 195 | 17 | 212 |
| 2018 | 189 | 2 | 191 |
| 2017 | 233 | 4 | 237 |
| 2016 | 120 | 2 | 122 |
| 2015 | 169 | 2 | 171 |
| 2014 | 111 | 2 | 113 |
| 2013 | 184 | 2 | 186 |
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 €235,170. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €915 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 24%
- Payment, one income
- 49%
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
- €1,058
- Owning per month
- €602
Figures for Pyrénées-Orientales: Pia 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 441 while 166 homes were started: 2.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.7
- Population change, 2022
- +441
6.0% of the 5,001 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.0%
- Empty homes
- 300