L'Île-Rousse · report
Renovation in L'Île-Rousse
In 2025, 35% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 35%
Homes authorised in L'Île-Rousse: 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 | 42 | 23 | 65 |
| 2024 | 97 | 2 | 99 |
| 2022 | 82 | 10 | 92 |
| 2021 | 21 | 27 | 48 |
| 2020 | 4 | — | 4 |
| 2019 | 95 | 4 | 99 |
| 2018 | 15 | — | 15 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2014 | 147 | — | 147 |
| 2013 | 59 | 1 | 60 |
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 €441,000. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,716 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 48%
- Payment, one income
- 97%
Renting a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than owning 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
- €1,480
- Owning per month
- €1,613
Figures for Haute-Corse: L'Île-Rousse has no reliable figures of its own.
20.1% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,879
In 2022 the population grew by 18 while 114 homes were started: 0.2 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.2
- Population change, 2022
- +18
0.9% of the 3,442 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 0.9%
- Empty homes
- 30