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Renovation in Lamentin
In 2025, 8% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 8%
Homes authorised in Lamentin: 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 | 66 | 6 | 72 |
| 2024 | 180 | 16 | 196 |
| 2023 | 95 | 5 | 100 |
| 2022 | 93 | 7 | 100 |
| 2021 | 148 | 10 | 158 |
| 2020 | 277 | 5 | 282 |
| 2019 | 167 | 4 | 171 |
| 2018 | 202 | 3 | 205 |
| 2017 | 225 | 14 | 239 |
| 2016 | 114 | 7 | 121 |
| 2015 | 105 | 4 | 109 |
| 2014 | 199 | 6 | 205 |
| 2013 | 521 | 10 | 531 |
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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Figures for France: Lamentin has no reliable figures of its own.
At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €258,300. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,005 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 23%
- Payment, one income
- 47%
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
- €1,262
- Owning per month
- €958
Figures for Guadeloupe: Lamentin has no reliable figures of its own.
3.1% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,789
In 2022 the population grew by 191 while 72 homes were started: 2.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.7
- Population change, 2022
- +191
16.2% of the 9,743 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 16.2%
- Empty homes
- 1,575