The famous DPE, or “energy performance diagnosis”, is essential for selling or renting a home. It was revised at the beginning of the year, causing certain changes.
The energy performance diagnosis, created in 2006, measures the energy performance of a house or apartment, by evaluating both its consumption and its impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. Increasingly useful, it was already mandatory for any purchase of off-plan housing. Since 1er January 2023, it can even prevent the rental of the places with the highest values.
Voluntary hardening, to put an end to thermal strainers
The measure was quite discreet, but the change is effective. Since the beginning of the year, accommodation whose consumption is greater than 450 kWh/m² can no longer be offered for rental. In other words, a property is considered to be rentable and “energy decent” if it is below this value.
The restrictions will go further, since this ban on the most energy-intensive housing will concern those classified G from 2025, those classified F from 2028, and those classified E from 2034, and this on the rental market, always.
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From 1er April 2023, a more in-depth energy audit will have to be carried out in the event of the sale of a property for residential use or an apartment building belonging to energy classes F or G, i.e. the worst ratings. The document will not replace the DPE. Better, it will complete it.
This progressive hardening is obviously intended to put an end to thermal colanders, in a context where energy sobriety tends to prevail, while the environment is deteriorating and household expenses are constantly increasing.
ECD is changing slowly but surely
The DPE is a mandatory formality for all sales and rentals, which is the responsibility of the lessor or the owner of the accommodation, and which is then integrated into the technical diagnostic file, which must be annexed to the preliminary rental contract or of sale. The last step consists in giving the DPE to the tenant or the purchaser, so that he can estimate his housing budget, since the diagnosis indicates, in euros, the theoretical annual energy costs of the housing.
The DPE takes the form of a label ranging from A, for “extremely efficient” housing, to G, for “extremely inefficient” property. The formula is not very pretty, but it is significant. A diagnosis considered good will be rated A or B. A poor ECD is rated F or G.
In 2021, the State introduced a new version of the DPE housing, more readable and complete. A person who would include false information on the document incurs a fine of up to 15,000 euros if it is a legal person, and up to 3,000 euros for an individual.
Source : Ministry of Economy
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