Tarbes · report
Renovation in Tarbes
In 2025, 80% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 80%
Homes authorised in Tarbes: 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 | 55 | 217 | 272 |
| 2024 | 239 | 46 | 285 |
| 2023 | 188 | 66 | 254 |
| 2022 | 91 | 46 | 137 |
| 2021 | 129 | 77 | 206 |
| 2020 | 114 | 76 | 190 |
| 2019 | 19 | 71 | 90 |
| 2018 | 71 | 81 | 152 |
| 2017 | 34 | 48 | 82 |
| 2016 | 115 | 30 | 145 |
| 2015 | 12 | 32 | 44 |
| 2014 | 84 | 25 | 109 |
| 2013 | 101 | 22 | 123 |
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 €134,460. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €523 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 15%
- Payment, one income
- 30%
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
- €928
- Owning per month
- €475
Figures for Hautes-Pyrénées: Tarbes has no reliable figures of its own.
16.7% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,521
In 2022 the population fell by 130 while 25 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 25
- Population change, 2022
- −130
13.7% of the 30,452 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 13.7%
- Empty homes
- 4,164
Public bodies signed €1.8M of housing works here in 2024, and €1.8M since 2024.
- Signed in 2024
- €1.8M
- Per resident, 2024
- €42