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Renovation in Wimereux
In 2025, 55% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 55%
Homes authorised in Wimereux: 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 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2024 | 44 | — | 44 |
| 2023 | 12 | 3 | 15 |
| 2022 | 20 | 3 | 23 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1 | 17 |
| 2020 | 3 | — | 3 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| 2018 | 74 | 1 | 75 |
| 2017 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| 2016 | 45 | — | 45 |
| 2015 | 76 | — | 76 |
| 2014 | 87 | — | 87 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5 | 21 |
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 €397,530. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,547 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 34%
- Payment, one income
- 68%
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
- €1,222
- Owning per month
- €1,722
Figures for Pas-de-Calais: Wimereux has no reliable figures of its own.
11.4% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 6,067
In 2022 the population fell by 51 while 13 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 13
- Population change, 2022
- −51
3.8% of the 5,105 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 3.8%
- Empty homes
- 193