Pollestres · report
Renovation in Pollestres
In 2025, 4% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 4%
Homes authorised in Pollestres: 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 | 123 | 5 | 128 |
| 2024 | 53 | 2 | 55 |
| 2023 | 21 | 3 | 24 |
| 2022 | 68 | — | 68 |
| 2021 | 79 | 1 | 80 |
| 2020 | 75 | 5 | 80 |
| 2019 | 127 | — | 127 |
| 2018 | 59 | 6 | 65 |
| 2017 | 109 | 4 | 113 |
| 2016 | 44 | 1 | 45 |
| 2015 | 193 | — | 193 |
| 2014 | 27 | — | 27 |
| 2013 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
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 €244,890. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €953 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 23%
- Payment, one income
- 46%
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
- €1,075
- Owning per month
- €1,087
Figures for Pyrénées-Orientales: Pollestres has no reliable figures of its own.
34.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,428
In 2022 the population grew by 59 while 50 homes were started: 1.2 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.2
- Population change, 2022
- +59
5.3% of the 2,770 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.3%
- Empty homes
- 147