Billère · report
Renovation in Billère
In 2025, 36% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 36%
Homes authorised in Billère: 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 | 66 | 37 | 103 |
| 2024 | 15 | 2 | 17 |
| 2023 | 21 | 2 | 23 |
| 2022 | 83 | 18 | 101 |
| 2021 | 22 | 48 | 70 |
| 2020 | 94 | — | 94 |
| 2019 | 60 | 1 | 61 |
| 2018 | 261 | 31 | 292 |
| 2017 | 15 | 6 | 21 |
| 2016 | 198 | 1 | 199 |
| 2015 | 90 | 3 | 93 |
| 2014 | 47 | — | 47 |
| 2013 | 86 | 1 | 87 |
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 €193,500. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €753 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 19%
- Payment, one income
- 38%
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
- €1,132
- Owning per month
- €688
Figures for Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Billère has no reliable figures of its own.
11.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,512
In 2022 the population grew by 347 while 29 homes were started: 12.0 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 12.0
- Population change, 2022
- +347
8.3% of the 8,658 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.3%
- Empty homes
- 715