Wattignies · report
Renovation in Wattignies
In 2025, 51% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 51%
Homes authorised in Wattignies: 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 | 60 | 63 | 123 |
| 2024 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2023 | 26 | 18 | 44 |
| 2022 | 63 | 7 | 70 |
| 2021 | 47 | 2 | 49 |
| 2020 | 97 | 9 | 106 |
| 2019 | 176 | 19 | 195 |
| 2018 | 63 | 13 | 76 |
| 2017 | 98 | 2 | 100 |
| 2016 | 178 | 6 | 184 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2014 | 156 | 4 | 160 |
| 2013 | 27 | 13 | 40 |
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 €211,320. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €823 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 20%
- Payment, one income
- 41%
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
- €1,252
- Owning per month
- €684
Figures for Nord: Wattignies has no reliable figures of its own.
10.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 12,139
In 2022 the population fell by 231 while 125 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 125
- Population change, 2022
- −231
4.7% of the 7,505 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 4.7%
- Empty homes
- 351