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Renovation in Bastia
In 2025, 22% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 22%
Homes authorised in Bastia: 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 | 21 | 6 | 27 |
| 2024 | 357 | 6 | 363 |
| 2023 | 24 | 4 | 28 |
| 2022 | 442 | 3 | 445 |
| 2021 | 121 | 12 | 133 |
| 2020 | 48 | 3 | 51 |
| 2019 | 146 | 4 | 150 |
| 2018 | 108 | 10 | 118 |
| 2017 | 109 | 3 | 112 |
| 2016 | 584 | 2 | 586 |
| 2015 | 126 | 2 | 128 |
| 2014 | 100 | 9 | 109 |
| 2013 | 60 | 5 | 65 |
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 €262,800. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,023 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 27%
- Payment, one income
- 54%
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
- €1,229
- Owning per month
- €954
Figures for Haute-Corse: Bastia has no reliable figures of its own.
20.1% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,879
In 2022 the population fell by 592 while 181 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 181
- Population change, 2022
- −592
1.3% of the 21,446 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 1.3%
- Empty homes
- 275