140,000 homes that fall out of the energy sieve category thanks to a change in the method of calculating the DPE. The electric car for 100 euros per month is a victim of its success. And banks which anticipate a possible law on inheritance bank fees. Here are the 3 unmissable money news stories from Monday February 12.
The real estate news of the day: a revised and corrected DPE
The Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Bchu announced Sunday February 11 in The Parisian a correction per stop of the bias in calculating the DPE for housing less than 40 m2. What bias? The smaller the surface area of a home, the more the share of domestic hot water weighs on its classification, with no real link to the number of occupants, he explained. This revised and corrected DPE should make it possible to remove 140,000 homes from the energy sieve category (labels F or G), a category that should be prohibited for rental from 2025. But how do you know if your home benefits from the new DPE rules?
DPE: who are the owners who will benefit from the new calculation method?
Today’s auto news: social leasing is already over for 2024
Are you hesitant to take advantage of the government’s promise of an electric car for 100 euros per month? We will now have to wait until 2025. In just six weeks, the initial objectives have been exceeded and the cutting government is already preparing to cut orders for the year 2024. What you need to know.
Banking news of the day: no fees for small inheritances
The PS group, at the forefront of which is MP Christine Pirs-Beaune, is presenting this Wednesday February 14 in the Finance Committee a bill seeking to regulate the fees levied by banks following the death of a client, fees ceased to cover the estate processing fees…
The text aims in particular to eliminate these fees on small files, when the amounts involved for the bank are less than 5000 euros. Without waiting for this bill, which will be examined by the Assembly in plenary session on February 29, Crdit Mutuel and the CIC will apply free transfers of up to 10,000 euros to rights holders, from March 2024. More information.