Les Mathes · report
Renovation in Les Mathes
In 2025, 16% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 16%
Homes authorised in Les Mathes: 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 | 16 | 3 | 19 |
| 2024 | 81 | 18 | 99 |
| 2023 | 51 | 3 | 54 |
| 2022 | 48 | 2 | 50 |
| 2021 | 74 | 2 | 76 |
| 2020 | 53 | 1 | 54 |
| 2019 | 48 | 36 | 84 |
| 2018 | 35 | 1 | 36 |
| 2017 | 56 | 3 | 59 |
| 2016 | 57 | 31 | 88 |
| 2015 | 22 | 30 | 52 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1 | 25 |
| 2013 | 42 | 1 | 43 |
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 €393,930. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,533 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 33%
- Payment, one income
- 66%
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
- €1,230
- Owning per month
- €1,435
Figures for Charente-Maritime: Les Mathes has no reliable figures of its own.
19.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,797
In 2022 the population fell by 4 while 63 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 63
- Population change, 2022
- −4
0.2% of the 5,250 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 0.2%
- Empty homes
- 13