Iis the ban on renting thermal colanders a “madness”as former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe asserted in a portrait published by the weekly Point in January ? The mayor of Le Havre denounces this measure of the Climate and Resilience Law, in force since 1er January for the most poorly insulated and energy-intensive homes.
The aedile predicts a reduction in “number of homes made available to people, and in general the most vulnerable” and confide that “The coming housing crisis must be of great concern to the government”. “No one is madanswered him in The Obs Olivier Klein, Minister Delegate in charge of Housing. What is madness is letting people live in thermal sieves. »
Beyond the big words, one observation: the real estate market is reacting. He tenses up. However, at this stage the law only prohibits the rental of the worst “strainers”, classified G + (140,000 properties rented by individuals are now concerned). The most powerful effects are expected from 2025, when the constraint will be applied to all properties classified G. The Fs will follow in 2028, and the Es in 2034. The measure will then affect more than 43% of the private rental stock. It comes to force the hand of lessor owners, who until now had no interest in renovating their property, not being the beneficiaries of lower electricity or gas bills.
Effective but expensive work
Owners of thermal colanders do their math. They anticipate a discount to their property, presuppose that it will go crescendo, and many of them decide to sell, rather than start work. “Many small surfaces are soldnotes Elodie Frémont, spokesperson for the notaries of Greater Paris. For example, a client of my study would have had 12,000 euros worth of work to upgrade his 12 square meter studio from an energy performance label F to D, whereas by selling his discount was only 8,000 euros. »
Landlords can certainly benefit from public aid for renovation. But, in practice, obstacles remain, whether it is the complexity of the 100% online platform MaPrimeRénov’, responsible for distributing these subsidies, or the difficulty of obtaining the green light from the co-ownership to carry out effective but costly work, such as the insulation of the facade or the roof.
The “field” feeling of notaries was confirmed by a survey published on Wednesday 1er February by the classifieds site SeLoger. Properties labeled F or G, for excessive energy consumption, offered for sale on the platform have almost doubled between 2020 and 2022. The volume of rental advertisements “energy sieves” has fallen by 40% in one year.
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