Pontarlier · report
Renovation in Pontarlier
In 2025, 39% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 39%
Homes authorised in Pontarlier: 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 | 122 | 79 | 201 |
| 2024 | 26 | 5 | 31 |
| 2023 | 73 | 17 | 90 |
| 2022 | 57 | 23 | 80 |
| 2021 | 37 | 18 | 55 |
| 2020 | 149 | 19 | 168 |
| 2019 | 45 | 9 | 54 |
| 2018 | 22 | 3 | 25 |
| 2017 | 19 | 25 | 44 |
| 2016 | 155 | 7 | 162 |
| 2015 | 59 | 3 | 62 |
| 2014 | 72 | 12 | 84 |
| 2013 | 67 | 4 | 71 |
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 €247,500. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €963 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
- €1,364
- Owning per month
- €895
Figures for Doubs: Pontarlier has no reliable figures of its own.
7.6% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,788
In 2022 the population grew by 139 while 76 homes were started: 1.8 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 1.8
- Population change, 2022
- +139
7.2% of the 10,406 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 7.2%
- Empty homes
- 752