Saintes · report
Renovation in Saintes
In 2025, 64% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 64%
Homes authorised in Saintes: 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 | 94 | 167 | 261 |
| 2024 | 72 | 112 | 184 |
| 2023 | 110 | 44 | 154 |
| 2022 | 146 | 132 | 278 |
| 2021 | 130 | 19 | 149 |
| 2020 | 43 | 11 | 54 |
| 2019 | 28 | 20 | 48 |
| 2018 | 30 | 33 | 63 |
| 2017 | 37 | 27 | 64 |
| 2016 | 117 | 21 | 138 |
| 2015 | 55 | 19 | 74 |
| 2014 | 33 | 17 | 50 |
| 2013 | 162 | 27 | 189 |
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 €183,150. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €713 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 17%
- Payment, one income
- 35%
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
- €1,064
- Owning per month
- €669
Figures for Charente-Maritime: Saintes has no reliable figures of its own.
19.5% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 4,797
In 2022 the population grew by 51 while 170 homes were started: 0.3 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.3
- Population change, 2022
- +51
8.6% of the 15,894 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 8.6%
- Empty homes
- 1,369