Martigues · report
Renovation in Martigues
In 2025, 14% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 14%
Homes authorised in Martigues: 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 | 24 | 4 | 28 |
| 2024 | 65 | 17 | 82 |
| 2023 | 89 | 59 | 148 |
| 2022 | 240 | 13 | 253 |
| 2021 | 53 | 12 | 65 |
| 2020 | 89 | 11 | 100 |
| 2019 | 303 | 12 | 315 |
| 2018 | 256 | 13 | 269 |
| 2017 | 184 | 26 | 210 |
| 2016 | 197 | 29 | 226 |
| 2015 | 138 | 9 | 147 |
| 2014 | 267 | 9 | 276 |
| 2013 | 243 | 21 | 264 |
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 €298,170. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,161 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 28%
- Payment, one income
- 55%
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
- €1,395
- Owning per month
- €944
Figures for Bouches-du-Rhône: Martigues has no reliable figures of its own.
24.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 8,951
In 2022 the population fell by 520 while 258 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 258
- Population change, 2022
- −520
6.8% of the 26,260 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.8%
- Empty homes
- 1,777