Property tax in Bastia in 2026: the first rise since 2009

1. What is the property tax rate in Bastia in 2026?

Your property tax notice does not show a single figure. It stacks several lines voted by different authorities, all calculated on the same tax base. In Bastia it is the municipal share that carries most of the bill.

Only the property tax on built property goes up. The other rates voted by the town stay at their 2025 level. In other words, the town chose to pull a single lever, the one that brings in the most, and to pull it hard.

2. Why did the town vote its first rise since 2009?

The political background is a change at the top. Gilles Simeoni was elected mayor of Bastia in the second round of the March 2026 municipal elections, with 44,49 % of the vote, ten years after leaving that same seat to take the presidency of the executive council of Corsica. The budget of 30 April 2026 is his first act of governance.

The argument put forward by the deputy mayor for finance, Didier Grassi, comes down to one sentence: a sharp fall in room for manoeuvre that makes a rise necessary. The town's staff costs have risen by about 6 million euros in four years, of which 2 million are expected between 2025 and 2026, which on its own absorbs two thirds of the new revenue from the rise.

The second argument is structural. The property tax accounts for 86 % of the tax revenue of Bastia. Since the abolition of the residence tax on main homes, a town that wants to raise its own revenue has virtually only one button left to push. Bastia pushed it after seventeen years of standing still.

3. Why does this rise fall on so few owners?

This is the point that per-resident averages hide. When the council announces about 85 € a year per resident, or about 8 € a month, it divides the expected revenue by the total population. But the property tax is not paid by residents: it is paid by owners.

First narrowing: the structure of housing. Bastia is a town of tenants. Six residents out of ten are tenants, and more than a quarter of them live below the poverty line. The new tax burden is therefore spread over about four residents out of ten, which mechanically multiplies the real individual impact compared with the published figure.

Second narrowing: the Corsican tangle of land titles. For more than two centuries, the Miot decrees of June 1801 exempted Corsica from the common inheritance tax regime, with no penalty for failing to declare. The result: a large stock of properties whose title deed has never been reconstituted, often held jointly across several generations. GIRTEC, the body created by the decree of 15 May 2007 and whose partnership with the Corsican regional authority was strengthened in 2026, works precisely on reconstituting those titles.

4. How much do you pay depending on your profile?

These amounts do not replace your tax notice, which alone is authoritative: two homes of identical size can carry different rental values depending on their condition and their features. The last column isolates what the decision of 30 April 2026 adds, at an equal tax base.

Four typical profiles in Bastia

The gaps between districts are real and are read first of all in the price of the property. In Bastia, the average price of an apartment stands at 2 933 €/m² in 2026, but it ranges from 2 235 €/m² in Montesoro to 3 598 €/m² in Terra Vecchia, by way of 3 242 €/m² in Saint-Nicolas and 3 320 €/m² in La Citadelle (DVF data processed by Immover, 2024-2025 transactions).

5. Calculator: what the 2026 rise costs you

6. Is the Bastia rate high in Corsica and in France?

The comparison with the rest of Corsica leaves no doubt. The department of Haute-Corse has many rural municipalities with moderate rates, which pulls the average down; Bastia, the only sizeable town and the only large provider of public services in the north of the island, sits well above it.

The path taken by Bastia is the exact opposite of that of Nice, which voted a cut in its rate in 2026, and comes closer to that of Marseille, which had raised its own by 14 % in 2022. You can read our analyses of the Nice cut and of the record Marseille rate to place the Bastia move in the national picture.

7. What impact on the value of your property?

Three observations to place the real effect of the 2026 decision on your property.

1. Taxation does not make the price. In Bastia, the price of an apartment has risen by about 10 % in five years, from 2 671 €/m² in 2021 to 2 933 €/m² in 2026, with a fall of about 2 % over the past twelve months. That path is that of an island market constrained by geography, not that of a market driven by local taxation.

2. The annual cost of ownership becomes a bargaining point. On a house in Cardo or a large apartment in the centre, a municipal share going from 2 100 € to 2 400 € shows up in a financing plan. An informed buyer takes it into account, and can use it in the discussion.

3. The gap between districts remains the leading factor of value. Between Montesoro at 2 235 €/m² and Terra Vecchia at 3 598 €/m², the gap exceeds 60 %. No municipal tax decision produces an effect of that order on a resale price. If you want to know what your property is worth, the district weighs infinitely more heavily than the rate.

To place your home precisely, see our page dedicated to property prices per m² in Bastia, set out district by district from actual transactions, or start a valuation directly below.