Lion-sur-Mer · report
Renovation in Lion-sur-Mer
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 Lion-sur-Mer: 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 | 9 | 19 |
| 2024 | 34 | — | 34 |
| 2023 | 3 | — | 3 |
| 2022 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2021 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 7 | — | 7 |
| 2016 | 12 | — | 12 |
| 2015 | 33 | — | 33 |
| 2014 | 88 | — | 88 |
| 2013 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
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 €308,700. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,202 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 25%
- Payment, one income
- 51%
Owning and renting a 90 m² apartment cost about the same each month. 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
- €1,197
- Owning per month
- €1,242
Figures for Calvados: Lion-sur-Mer has no reliable figures of its own.
8.4% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 5,026
In 2022 the population fell by 24 while 4 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 4
- Population change, 2022
- −24
6.0% of the 1,959 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.0%
- Empty homes
- 118