Pignans · report
Renovation in Pignans
In 2025, 41% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 41%
Homes authorised in Pignans: 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 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
| 2024 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2023 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1 | 15 |
| 2021 | 31 | 3 | 34 |
| 2020 | 7 | — | 7 |
| 2019 | 21 | 3 | 24 |
| 2018 | 78 | — | 78 |
| 2017 | 46 | 5 | 51 |
| 2016 | 33 | — | 33 |
| 2015 | 40 | 4 | 44 |
| 2014 | 25 | 4 | 29 |
| 2013 | 28 | — | 28 |
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 €280,620. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,092 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 27%
- Payment, one income
- 53%
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
- €1,062
- Owning per month
- €744
Figures for Var: Pignans has no reliable figures of its own.
31.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 5,742
In 2022 the population grew by 71 while 15 homes were started: 4.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 4.7
- Population change, 2022
- +71
8.5% of the 2,347 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.5%
- Empty homes
- 199