Saint-Leu · report
Renovation in Saint-Leu
In 2025, 9% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 9%
Homes authorised in Saint-Leu: 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 | 87 | 9 | 96 |
| 2024 | 232 | 8 | 240 |
| 2023 | 206 | 8 | 214 |
| 2022 | 271 | 19 | 290 |
| 2021 | 306 | 11 | 317 |
| 2020 | 216 | 13 | 229 |
| 2019 | 313 | 11 | 324 |
| 2018 | 462 | 11 | 473 |
| 2017 | 369 | 17 | 386 |
| 2016 | 307 | 14 | 321 |
| 2015 | 364 | 25 | 389 |
| 2014 | 332 | 38 | 370 |
| 2013 | 564 | 33 | 597 |
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 €365,670. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,423 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 43%
- Payment, one income
- 87%
Owning and renting a 90 m² apartment cost about the same each month. 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
- €1,484
- Owning per month
- €1,487
Figures for La Réunion: Saint-Leu has no reliable figures of its own.
17.9% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,521
In 2022 the population grew by 566 while 339 homes were started: 1.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.7
- Population change, 2022
- +566
7.6% of the 17,007 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.6%
- Empty homes
- 1,300