In his Laforêt real estate agency in downtown Lille, Dominique Nadal attended a “wave of sales when thermal strainers rated F and G started to be singled out”in the wake of the Climate and Resilience Law of 2021. The text prohibited the rental of the worst thermal strainers (classified G +) in 1er January 2023, and will extend this ban to all properties classified G to 1er January 2025 – then to F in 2028 and to E in 2034.
“Owners were scared. There are a lot of old buildings, and sieves, in Lille and particularly in Old Lille, with very particular windows, authorizations to be obtained to carry out the renovation work, in short, people did not want to bother », testifies the manager. The goods were then “well sold, with small discounts”.
A study published Wednesday March 27 by the real estate group SeLoger shows that this thermal strainer market no longer has the same vigor. After a phase of acceleration in transactions between July 2021 and January 2023, the number of properties for sale classified F or G has fallen by 12% since 1er January 2023, a “decrease not observed concerning the sales of properties A, B, C, D (0%) and E (+ 1%)”specifies SeLoger, based on the announcements published on its site, on the transactions concluded by the partner agencies of MeilleursAgents and on a study carried out by OpinionWay.
A growing discount
The energy renovation of the building stock would partly explain this correction. According to the real estate portal, 32% of owners surveyed say they have carried out work in 2023, allowing one in five renovated properties to move out of category F or G. “The law is starting to bear fruit and the housing stock is starting to improve”analyzes Thomas Lefebvre, vice-president of data at SeLoger. “The owners are gradually doing the workobserves Dominique Nadal. Here, in Lille, the radiator works for a good part of the year, and it costs an arm and a leg in electricity, so there is an interest in insulating, and people do it. »
The decline in the flow of thermal sieves on the market is also due to the wait-and-see attitude of sellers, while the rise in interest rates has made buyers desolvent and pushed down property prices. “As the market is bearish, it is complicated today to sell energy sieve housing, they remain on the market for a long time and owner-occupiers are questioning their sales plans”notes Caroline Amouyal, manager of a Century 21 real estate agency in Lyon.
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