Saint-Gervais-les-Bains · report
Renovation in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
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 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains: 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 | 105 | 15 | 120 |
| 2024 | 38 | 3 | 41 |
| 2023 | 56 | 4 | 60 |
| 2022 | 165 | 13 | 178 |
| 2021 | 157 | 14 | 171 |
| 2020 | 42 | 4 | 46 |
| 2019 | 57 | 26 | 83 |
| 2018 | 142 | 6 | 148 |
| 2017 | 86 | 14 | 100 |
| 2016 | 85 | 7 | 92 |
| 2015 | 113 | 22 | 135 |
| 2014 | 102 | 33 | 135 |
| 2013 | 25 | 15 | 40 |
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 €496,080. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,931 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 40%
- Payment, one income
- 81%
Renting a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than owning 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
- €1,633
- Owning per month
- €1,770
Figures for Haute-Savoie: Saint-Gervais-les-Bains has no reliable figures of its own.
19.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,917
In 2022 the population grew by 77 while 67 homes were started: 1.1 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.1
- Population change, 2022
- +77
1.3% of the 9,228 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 1.3%
- Empty homes
- 120