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Buy or rent in Gravelines

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

Try your own numbers

Starting from the median sale price of apartments, €3,315/m², and the asking rent of an apartment, €12.1/m² a month with charges (2025), in Gravelines, and a mortgage rate of 3.2%.

Assumptions
90
3.2
1
Property tax (taxe foncière), insurance, maintenance and co-ownership charges.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Notary fees and transfer duties, paid once.

Owning and renting cost about the same each month.

Rent a month
€1,086
Owning a month, not recovered
€1,091
Interest
€716
Running costs
€249
Return given up
€127
Cash out a month, if buying
€1,410

Gross rental yield in Gravelines

A year's asking rent as a share of the sale price, apartments, for each year the rent map was published. Higher means rent is dear compared with buying.

Show the numbers
PeriodGravelines
20254.6%
20247.1%
20237.2%
20224.8%

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are asking rents with charges included, from the ANIL rent map, so they run a little above what tenants pay in rent alone, and the yield reads a little high.

Other reports for Gravelines

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%

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

In 2025, 5% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.

Homes in existing buildings, 2025
5%

Public bodies signed €1M of housing works here in 2025, and €1.9M since 2024.

Signed in 2025
€1M
Per resident, 2025
€89