Pointe-à-Pitre · report
Renovation in Pointe-à-Pitre
In 2025, 13% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 13%
Homes authorised in Pointe-à-Pitre: 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 | 58 | 9 | 67 |
| 2024 | 16 | 15 | 31 |
| 2023 | 56 | 9 | 65 |
| 2022 | 21 | 162 | 183 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2019 | 158 | 11 | 169 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2017 | 110 | 3 | 113 |
| 2016 | 195 | — | 195 |
| 2015 | 81 | 1 | 82 |
| 2014 | 19 | 33 | 52 |
| 2013 | 116 | 4 | 120 |
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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Figures for France: Pointe-à-Pitre has no reliable figures of its own.
At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €136,080. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €530 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 12%
- Payment, one income
- 25%
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
- €1,236
- Owning per month
- €493
Figures for Guadeloupe: Pointe-à-Pitre has no reliable figures of its own.
3.1% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,789
12.2% of the 10,419 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 12.2%
- Empty homes
- 1,275