Dax · report
Renovation in Dax
In 2025, 39% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 39%
Homes authorised in Dax: 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 | 100 | 63 | 163 |
| 2024 | 283 | 81 | 364 |
| 2023 | 27 | 30 | 57 |
| 2022 | 466 | 23 | 489 |
| 2021 | 117 | 71 | 188 |
| 2020 | 209 | 81 | 290 |
| 2019 | 370 | 15 | 385 |
| 2018 | 127 | 37 | 164 |
| 2017 | 256 | 7 | 263 |
| 2016 | 60 | 3 | 63 |
| 2015 | 92 | 16 | 108 |
| 2014 | 32 | 33 | 65 |
| 2013 | 22 | 24 | 46 |
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 €225,360. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €877 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 23%
- Payment, one income
- 45%
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
- €1,056
- Owning per month
- €842
Figures for Landes: Dax has no reliable figures of its own.
23.1% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 5,934
In 2022 the population grew by 393 while 291 homes were started: 1.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.4
- Population change, 2022
- +393
10.2% of the 17,343 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 10.2%
- Empty homes
- 1,767