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Construction is increasing on the coast, and villages are not spared from the rise in prices. In Corsica, real estate speculation makes access to property increasingly difficult for young people. Some mayors have chosen to make it easier for village residents to acquire housing.
In Moncale (Haute-Corse), in the middle of the maquis, Félix Mattéodo is preparing to pay 64,000 euros to the town hall to buy a plot of land of 800 m2, barely half the market price. “I don’t have a fantastic salary, so it seems very complicated to get priority with the current salaries and prices in the region.“, he said.
Strict conditions but a great success
In this village of Balagne, the purchase price per m2 increased by 67%. In her real estate agency, Marie-Théodora Orlandini encounters increasingly greedy owners every day when they put their properties up for sale. The town hall has developed two plots of land to build two housing estates. In return, she requires being a first-time buyer, not renting her house or reselling it for 20 years, and sending her children to school in the village. The town hall received more than 1,000 applications for 32 plots of land.