Gardanne · report
Renovation in Gardanne
In 2025, 4% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 4%
Homes authorised in Gardanne: 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 | 250 | 10 | 260 |
| 2024 | 24 | 9 | 33 |
| 2023 | 72 | 9 | 81 |
| 2022 | 133 | 11 | 144 |
| 2021 | 72 | 4 | 76 |
| 2020 | 53 | 14 | 67 |
| 2019 | 260 | 7 | 267 |
| 2018 | 22 | 9 | 31 |
| 2017 | 265 | 7 | 272 |
| 2016 | 159 | 9 | 168 |
| 2015 | 213 | 21 | 234 |
| 2014 | 129 | 18 | 147 |
| 2013 | 175 | 21 | 196 |
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 €332,280. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,293 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 31%
- Payment, one income
- 61%
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
- €1,459
- Owning per month
- €1,069
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: Gardanne has no reliable figures of its own.
24.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,951
In 2022 the population grew by 63 while 84 homes were started: 0.8 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.8
- Population change, 2022
- +63
6.5% of the 10,619 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.5%
- Empty homes
- 687