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Renovation in La Ciotat
In 2025, 13% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 13%
Homes authorised in La Ciotat: 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 | 175 | 25 | 200 |
| 2024 | 101 | 21 | 122 |
| 2023 | 84 | 14 | 98 |
| 2022 | 206 | 2 | 208 |
| 2021 | 454 | 7 | 461 |
| 2020 | 115 | 8 | 123 |
| 2019 | 184 | 25 | 209 |
| 2018 | 456 | 13 | 469 |
| 2017 | 628 | 18 | 646 |
| 2016 | 439 | 10 | 449 |
| 2015 | 508 | 25 | 533 |
| 2014 | 294 | 6 | 300 |
| 2013 | 54 | 10 | 64 |
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 €487,260. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,897 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 43%
- Payment, one income
- 86%
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
- €1,591
- Owning per month
- €1,736
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: La Ciotat has no reliable figures of its own.
24.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,951
In 2022 the population grew by 878 while 343 homes were started: 2.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.6
- Population change, 2022
- +878
3.9% of the 24,800 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 3.9%
- Empty homes
- 966