Le Havre · report
Renovation in Le Havre
In 2025, 47% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 47%
Homes authorised in Le Havre: 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 | 172 | 155 | 327 |
| 2024 | 187 | 169 | 356 |
| 2023 | 218 | 26 | 244 |
| 2022 | 1,081 | 108 | 1,189 |
| 2021 | 504 | 103 | 607 |
| 2020 | 562 | 105 | 667 |
| 2019 | 1,163 | 232 | 1,395 |
| 2018 | 229 | 84 | 313 |
| 2017 | 367 | 280 | 647 |
| 2016 | 805 | 307 | 1,112 |
| 2015 | 400 | 66 | 466 |
| 2014 | 422 | 171 | 593 |
| 2013 | 753 | 47 | 800 |
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 €207,090. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €806 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 22%
- Payment, one income
- 43%
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
- €1,112
- Owning per month
- €741
Figures for Seine-Maritime: Le Havre has no reliable figures of its own.
25.8% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,738
In 2022 the population grew by 225 while 1,005 homes were started: 0.2 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.2
- Population change, 2022
- +225
10.9% of the 95,653 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 10.9%
- Empty homes
- 10,383