Sainte-Marie-la-Mer · report
Renovation in Sainte-Marie-la-Mer
In 2025, 17% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 17%
Homes authorised in Sainte-Marie-la-Mer: 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 | 30 | 6 | 36 |
| 2024 | 29 | 2 | 31 |
| 2023 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 2022 | 39 | — | 39 |
| 2021 | 38 | 2 | 40 |
| 2020 | 52 | 8 | 60 |
| 2019 | 39 | 6 | 45 |
| 2018 | 106 | 5 | 111 |
| 2017 | 31 | 10 | 41 |
| 2016 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
| 2015 | 24 | 3 | 27 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1 | 15 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1 | 17 |
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 €328,230. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,278 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 32%
- Payment, one income
- 64%
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
- €1,215
- Owning per month
- €1,140
Figures for Pyrénées-Orientales: Sainte-Marie-la-Mer 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 203 while 37 homes were started: 5.5 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 5.5
- Population change, 2022
- +203
0.8% of the 5,281 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 0.8%
- Empty homes
- 43