Argelès-sur-Mer · report
Renovation in Argelès-sur-Mer
In 2025, 14% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 14%
Homes authorised in Argelès-sur-Mer: 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 | 48 | 8 | 56 |
| 2024 | 376 | 13 | 389 |
| 2023 | 91 | 6 | 97 |
| 2022 | 354 | 11 | 365 |
| 2021 | 57 | 7 | 64 |
| 2020 | 100 | 3 | 103 |
| 2019 | 149 | 4 | 153 |
| 2018 | 97 | 2 | 99 |
| 2017 | 191 | 18 | 209 |
| 2016 | 154 | 5 | 159 |
| 2015 | 63 | 14 | 77 |
| 2014 | 186 | 16 | 202 |
| 2013 | 86 | 45 | 131 |
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 €318,870. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,241 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 31%
- Payment, one income
- 62%
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
- €1,173
- Owning per month
- €1,180
Figures for Pyrénées-Orientales: Argelès-sur-Mer has no reliable figures of its own.
34.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,428
In 2022 the population fell by 163 while 166 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 166
- Population change, 2022
- −163
1.8% of the 15,699 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 1.8%
- Empty homes
- 280