The National Real Estate Federation (FNAIM) unveiled this week a new mapping of the French housing stock with a classification by region and by city of energy performance diagnostic labels (DPE). This work carried out in association with the FNAIM Chamber of Real Estate Diagnosers is based on a significant number of DPEs carried out each quarter: 594,388 in the 1st quarter of 2022, 704,745 in the second quarter and 638,542 in the 3rd quarter. The FNAIM thus promises to update this new barometer every quarter.
Unsurprisingly, the distribution of energy-intensive housing across the territory remains particularly uneven. While some areas, such as the Mediterranean departments (Var, Bouches-du-Rhône and Hérault) have less than 10% of housing classified F or G, some areas have a much higher share of energy sieves ( nearly 34% in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, about 32% in Corrèze or even more than 41% in Lozère).
The Paris region on the front line
The differences are also pronounced among the 100 largest cities in France. While some cities benefit from a small share of F or G housing (9.4% in Toulouse, 7.6% in Marseille or 7.7% in Montpellier), others see this share soar in the image Paris, which would have 40% of housing classified F or G, or other municipalities in the Paris region such as Nanterre and Épinay-sur-Seine for which the majority of the housing stock would be made up of F or G housing (respectively 50.3 % and 56.4% of the park). More generally, cities where new constructions are rare are penalized by a much more energy-intensive old stock.
In cities where the proportion of energy sieves is high, rental ban deadlines pose real problems and concerns for the rental market as the renovation sites promise to be titanic and often fraught with obstacles, starting with authorizations from general meetings of condominiums for work affecting common areas such as exterior insulation or roof insulation.
First stage next month
The future ban on the rental of housing G, F and E, introduced by the Climate and Resilience law, will experience its first level as of January 1, 2023. From next month, it will no longer be authorized to rent the most energy-intensive housing G whose energy consumption exceeds 450kwh/m². This prohibition will only be applicable for new rental contracts concluded from January 1, 2023. From January 2025, it will be prohibited to rent all accommodation G but Here too, this prohibition will only be applicable for new rental contracts. rentals concluded from 2025. The rental ban will be extended to housing F in 2028.
Multi-year work plan
To meet these renovation challenges without risking a massive exit from rental housing, the FNAIM proposes to adjust this schedule and other practical measures. The Federation considers it more reasonable to set class F as the minimum energy performance standard on January 1, 2030.
In particular, it suggests suspending the energy indecency of an individual dwelling located in a building where a multi-year work plan would be adopted for the duration of this plan (10 years). The purpose of this multi-year work plan, which should gradually come into force from 2023 depending on the size of the condominiums, is to provision funds each year, in proportion to an estimate of the renovation work to be carried out over the next ten years in order to more easily trigger a joint decision, never easy in co-ownership. This plan will not be limited to energy aspects and will allow all condominiums to better anticipate, schedule and then vote on renovation work on common areas.