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Renovation in Gigean
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 Gigean: 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 | 30 | 1 | 31 |
| 2023 | 21 | 2 | 23 |
| 2022 | 104 | — | 104 |
| 2021 | 16 | — | 16 |
| 2020 | 35 | 1 | 36 |
| 2019 | 140 | 3 | 143 |
| 2018 | 124 | 1 | 125 |
| 2017 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2016 | 91 | 1 | 92 |
| 2015 | 23 | 2 | 25 |
| 2014 | 35 | 4 | 39 |
| 2013 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
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 €279,180. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,087 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 25%
- Payment, one income
- 51%
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
- €1,182
- Owning per month
- €917
Figures for Hérault: Gigean has no reliable figures of its own.
32.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 7,624
In 2022 the population grew by 80 while 8 homes were started: 10.0 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 10.0
- Population change, 2022
- +80
7.8% of the 2,997 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.8%
- Empty homes
- 235