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Renovation in Pau
In 2025, 66% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 66%
Homes authorised in Pau: 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 | 101 | 196 | 297 |
| 2024 | 167 | 153 | 320 |
| 2023 | 162 | 142 | 304 |
| 2022 | 160 | 325 | 485 |
| 2021 | 147 | 113 | 260 |
| 2020 | 474 | 72 | 546 |
| 2019 | 213 | 91 | 304 |
| 2018 | 349 | 182 | 531 |
| 2017 | 644 | 122 | 766 |
| 2016 | 266 | 39 | 305 |
| 2015 | 220 | 57 | 277 |
| 2014 | 184 | 52 | 236 |
| 2013 | 404 | 69 | 473 |
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 €200,880. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €782 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 20%
- Payment, one income
- 40%
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
- €1,085
- Owning per month
- €717
Figures for Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Pau 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 grew by 1,821 while 142 homes were started: 12.8 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 12.8
- Population change, 2022
- +1,821
13.7% of the 54,633 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 13.7%
- Empty homes
- 7,478