Saint-Chamas · report
Renovation in Saint-Chamas
In 2025, 11% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 11%
Homes authorised in Saint-Chamas: 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 | 17 | 2 | 19 |
| 2024 | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| 2023 | 56 | 1 | 57 |
| 2022 | 21 | 1 | 22 |
| 2021 | 23 | — | 23 |
| 2020 | 75 | 2 | 77 |
| 2019 | 22 | 6 | 28 |
| 2018 | 21 | — | 21 |
| 2017 | 69 | 2 | 71 |
| 2016 | 19 | 5 | 24 |
| 2015 | 18 | — | 18 |
| 2014 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2013 | 40 | 1 | 41 |
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 €303,750. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,182 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 25%
- Payment, one income
- 51%
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
- €1,315
- Owning per month
- €988
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: Saint-Chamas has no reliable figures of its own.
24.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,951
In 2022 the population grew by 7 while 52 homes were started: 0.1 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.1
- Population change, 2022
- +7
4.4% of the 4,324 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 4.4%
- Empty homes
- 192