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Renovation in Zonza
In 2025, 42% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 42%
Homes authorised in Zonza: 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 | 11 | 8 | 19 |
| 2024 | 58 | 4 | 62 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3 | 31 |
| 2022 | 82 | 5 | 87 |
| 2021 | 35 | 4 | 39 |
| 2020 | 101 | 8 | 109 |
| 2019 | 157 | 11 | 168 |
| 2018 | 543 | 29 | 572 |
| 2017 | 139 | 7 | 146 |
| 2016 | 94 | 6 | 100 |
| 2015 | 78 | 3 | 81 |
| 2014 | 57 | 2 | 59 |
| 2013 | 70 | 4 | 74 |
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 €505,800. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,969 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 47%
- Payment, one income
- 93%
Renting a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than owning 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
- €1,118
- Owning per month
- €1,609
Figures for Corse-du-Sud: Zonza has no reliable figures of its own.
33.7% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 1,416
In 2022 the population grew by 120 while 45 homes were started: 2.7 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 2.7
- Population change, 2022
- +120
3.4% of the 4,276 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 3.4%
- Empty homes
- 145