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Renovation in Cestas
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 Cestas: 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 | 44 | 7 | 51 |
| 2024 | 270 | 2 | 272 |
| 2023 | 58 | 2 | 60 |
| 2022 | 48 | 1 | 49 |
| 2021 | 66 | 1 | 67 |
| 2020 | 53 | 2 | 55 |
| 2019 | 77 | 13 | 90 |
| 2018 | 119 | 4 | 123 |
| 2017 | 134 | 4 | 138 |
| 2016 | 115 | 5 | 120 |
| 2015 | 16 | — | 16 |
| 2014 | 51 | 2 | 53 |
| 2013 | 187 | 5 | 192 |
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 €327,780. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,276 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 23%
- Payment, one income
- 47%
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
- €1,345
- Owning per month
- €1,338
Figures for Gironde: Cestas has no reliable figures of its own.
27.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 11,095
In 2022 the population fell by 91 while 18 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 18
- Population change, 2022
- −91
2.5% of the 7,645 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 2.5%
- Empty homes
- 194