Gravelines · report
Renovation in Gravelines
In 2025, 5% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 5%
Homes authorised in Gravelines: 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 | 475 | 25 | 500 |
| 2024 | 82 | 9 | 91 |
| 2023 | 34 | 12 | 46 |
| 2022 | 120 | 10 | 130 |
| 2021 | 34 | — | 34 |
| 2020 | 35 | 9 | 44 |
| 2019 | 5 | — | 5 |
| 2018 | 35 | — | 35 |
| 2017 | 77 | 13 | 90 |
| 2016 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2015 | 155 | — | 155 |
| 2014 | 61 | 5 | 66 |
| 2013 | 94 | 4 | 98 |
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 €183,330. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €714 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 18%
- Payment, one income
- 35%
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
- €1,086
- Owning per month
- €1,091
Figures for Nord: Gravelines has no reliable figures of its own.
10.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 12,139
In 2022 the population fell by 21 while 36 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 36
- Population change, 2022
- −21
7.1% of the 5,550 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.1%
- Empty homes
- 396
Public bodies signed €1M of housing works here in 2025, and €1.9M since 2024.
- Signed in 2025
- €1M
- Per resident, 2025
- €89