“Few copros are doing very, very well”… The government wants to reform the law of co-ownerships

The government wants to reform the complex rules of governance of condominiums in order to better help those in difficulty, announced Thursday the Minister Delegate for Housing, Olivier Klein.

“In the end, few cops are doing very, very well. It’s still a very fragile tool, co-ownership, and so we have to be careful, that’s why we want to review the governance rules of the co-ownership, but obviously by respecting the democracy of a co-ownership, we’re working on it with the Keeper of the Seals and his services, ”said Olivier Klein, questioned by a senator on degraded condominiums.

Cumbersome procedures

About 110,000 condominiums in France are considered “fragile”, that is to say at risk of entering a spiral of unpaid debts and impoverishment. Apart from fragile co-ownerships, the cumbersomeness of co-ownership procedures is regularly denounced by residents and professionals, in particular with the requirement to renovate buildings which may require costly work to be undertaken.

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For degraded condominiums, which can pose social problems (sleep merchants), security (risk of collapse) or sanitation, “we must adapt the aid and above all make the tools faster,” said Olivier Klein. “It takes between 8 and 12 years to get a condominium out of its situation, so you have to find simplification tools,” he added.

A new energy performance label

The minister also said he was working on “an energy performance label on so-called heritage buildings”, so that the necessary work to make the building less energy-intensive does not disfigure the architectural heritage.

“We are not going to do an ITE (thermal insulation from the outside, editor’s note) on half-timbering (…), it’s the same for Paris, we are not going to do ITE on all the beautiful Haussmann districts” , noted the minister.

“It’s one of the subjects on which we work, (…) the way in which we can renovate by adapting the gestures (of renovation, editor’s note) to the heritage, and there too, we have a stake in the sector, training and adaptation,” he continued.