Grasse · report
Renovation in Grasse
In 2025, 57% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 57%
Homes authorised in Grasse: 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 | 16 | 21 | 37 |
| 2024 | 40 | 5 | 45 |
| 2023 | 47 | 62 | 109 |
| 2022 | 193 | 14 | 207 |
| 2021 | 276 | 17 | 293 |
| 2020 | 63 | 33 | 96 |
| 2019 | 437 | 108 | 545 |
| 2018 | 215 | 48 | 263 |
| 2017 | 660 | 8 | 668 |
| 2016 | 276 | 6 | 282 |
| 2015 | 253 | 3 | 256 |
| 2014 | 169 | 3 | 172 |
| 2013 | 102 | 10 | 112 |
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 €305,010. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,187 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 27%
- Payment, one income
- 55%
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
- €1,457
- Owning per month
- €1,020
Figures for Alpes-Maritimes: Grasse has no reliable figures of its own.
31.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,444
In 2022 the population grew by 2,301 while 60 homes were started: 38.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 38.4
- Population change, 2022
- +2,301
6.7% of the 27,200 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.7%
- Empty homes
- 1,817