Lesquin · report
Renovation in Lesquin
In 2025, 33% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 33%
Homes authorised in Lesquin: 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 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 3 | — | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| 2021 | 63 | — | 63 |
| 2020 | 7 | — | 7 |
| 2019 | 179 | — | 179 |
| 2018 | 122 | — | 122 |
| 2017 | 290 | 2 | 292 |
| 2016 | 29 | 1 | 30 |
| 2015 | 101 | — | 101 |
| 2014 | 55 | — | 55 |
| 2013 | 317 | 1 | 318 |
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 €279,990. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,090 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 23%
- Payment, one income
- 46%
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
- €1,288
- Owning per month
- €1,110
Figures for Nord: Lesquin has no reliable figures of its own.
10.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 12,139
In 2022 the population grew by 244 while 71 homes were started: 3.4 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 3.4
- Population change, 2022
- +244
4.7% of the 4,247 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 4.7%
- Empty homes
- 200