Overview

• The municipal council voted unanimously to modify the local urban plan, prohibiting new secondary residences in specified sectors.
• Only newly built housing is covered, with requirements that units be occupied as a primary residence at least eight months per year and tourist rentals be capped at 120 days.
• Non-compliance can trigger mayoral orders with fines up to €1,000 per day, capped at €100,000, and leases may be terminated by operation of law.
• City figures cite mounting pressure: secondary residences rose from 35.5% to 41.2% of the housing stock between 2011 and 2022, and declared tourist lets climbed 30% from 2020 to 2024 to 582 units.
• The step aligns Cancale with earlier moves in Chamonix and several Basque coastal towns, signaling a wider municipal push to curb new second-home construction.