Houlgate · report
Renovation in Houlgate
In 2025, 3% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 3%
Homes authorised in Houlgate: 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 | 64 | 2 | 66 |
| 2024 | 4 | — | 4 |
| 2023 | 26 | 4 | 30 |
| 2022 | 4 | — | 4 |
| 2021 | 33 | — | 33 |
| 2020 | 48 | 1 | 49 |
| 2019 | 39 | — | 39 |
| 2018 | 8 | — | 8 |
| 2017 | 8 | — | 8 |
| 2016 | 1 | — | 1 |
| 2015 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2014 | 11 | — | 11 |
| 2013 | 6 | — | 6 |
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 €391,680. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,524 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 33%
- Payment, one income
- 66%
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
- €1,487
- Owning per month
- €1,400
Figures for Calvados: Houlgate has no reliable figures of its own.
8.4% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 5,026
In 2022 the population grew by 177 while 23 homes were started: 7.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 7.7
- Population change, 2022
- +177
1.1% of the 5,179 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 1.1%
- Empty homes
- 56