Lescar · report
Renovation in Lescar
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 Lescar: 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 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2024 | 47 | 1 | 48 |
| 2023 | 96 | 4 | 100 |
| 2022 | 145 | 1 | 146 |
| 2021 | 78 | 9 | 87 |
| 2020 | 59 | 1 | 60 |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2018 | 47 | 2 | 49 |
| 2017 | 76 | 3 | 79 |
| 2016 | 14 | — | 14 |
| 2015 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2014 | 115 | 10 | 125 |
| 2013 | 14 | 1 | 15 |
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 €231,480. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €901 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 18%
- Payment, one income
- 37%
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
- €1,233
- Owning per month
- €879
Figures for Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Lescar has no reliable figures of its own.
11.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,512
In 2022 the population fell by 85 while 108 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 108
- Population change, 2022
- −85
4.6% of the 4,513 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 4.6%
- Empty homes
- 207
Public bodies signed €10K of housing works here in 2025, and €10K since 2024.
- Signed in 2025
- €10K
- Per resident, 2025
- €1