Les Houches · report
Renovation in Les Houches
In 2025, 9% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 9%
Homes authorised in Les Houches: 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
Show the numbers
| Year | New buildings | Existing buildings | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | 3 | 35 |
| 2024 | 101 | 21 | 122 |
| 2023 | 22 | 11 | 33 |
| 2022 | 54 | 27 | 81 |
| 2021 | 55 | 4 | 59 |
| 2020 | 73 | 5 | 78 |
| 2019 | 37 | 5 | 42 |
| 2018 | 64 | 13 | 77 |
| 2017 | 45 | 4 | 49 |
| 2016 | 22 | 30 | 52 |
| 2015 | 31 | 9 | 40 |
| 2014 | 78 | 1 | 79 |
| 2013 | 40 | 33 | 73 |
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.
Other reports for Les Houches
At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €707,490. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €2,754 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 57%
- Payment, one income
- 114%
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
- €2,082
- Owning per month
- €2,517
Figures for Haute-Savoie: Les Houches has no reliable figures of its own.
19.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,917
In 2022 the population fell by 14 while 50 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 50
- Population change, 2022
- −14
3.7% of the 4,725 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 3.7%
- Empty homes
- 177