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Renovation in Saint-Lô
In 2025, 50% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 50%
Homes authorised in Saint-Lô: 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 | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| 2024 | 115 | 64 | 179 |
| 2023 | 13 | 18 | 31 |
| 2022 | 149 | 13 | 162 |
| 2021 | 85 | 10 | 95 |
| 2020 | 23 | 2 | 25 |
| 2019 | 30 | 6 | 36 |
| 2018 | 16 | 27 | 43 |
| 2017 | 41 | 6 | 47 |
| 2016 | 110 | 2 | 112 |
| 2015 | 76 | 2 | 78 |
| 2014 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2013 | 21 | 4 | 25 |
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 €150,030. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €584 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 15%
- Payment, one income
- 30%
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
- €973
- Owning per month
- €540
Figures for Manche: Saint-Lô has no reliable figures of its own.
4.2% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 2,181
In 2022 the population grew by 119 while 33 homes were started: 3.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 3.6
- Population change, 2022
- +119
6.4% of the 11,624 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.4%
- Empty homes
- 739