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La nullité des paiements pour dettes échues effectués à compter de la cessation des paiements a pour finalité de reconstituer l’actif du débiteur dans l’intérêt collectif des créanciers. Dès lors, la compensation ne peut jouer entre la créance de restitution consécutive à l’annulation des paiements effectués en période suspecte et la créance dont se prévalait […]

If, on the Ile-de-France real estate market front, the year 2020 has been complicated, it records a limited setback compared to the year 2019, a year of all records. The press conference on February 25, 2020 organized by the Paris Chamber of Notaries presented the real estate situation for the fourth quarter of 2020.  

From November 2020 to January 2021, authorized housing units increased 9.6 percent over the previous three months on a seasonally adjusted, working-day basis (SAWB). However, after a steady increase from July through November, authorizations fell back in December 2020 and stabilized in January 2021. Over the past three months as a whole, the number of […]

For the first time, the CJEU extends the presumption of decisive influence to cases where a parent company holds 100% of the voting rights associated with the shares of its subsidiary, even if it does not hold all or almost all of the latter’s share capital. The CJEU considers, in accordance with established case law, […]

The rent of a furnished residential lease subject to the “experimental” framework set up by the ELAN law may not be higher than the increased reference rent in the absence of any mention relating to the application of a rent supplement.   TJ Paris, pôle civ. de prox., 9 nov. 2020, n° 11-20-006260

A senator asked the Minister for Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Territorial Communities what recourse the municipality could take if a building permit is not properly posted. In her reply, the Minister recalls the impact of failure to comply with the posting rules on the time limits for appealing against planning permission (C. urb. art. […]

Law n° 2021-68 of 27th January 2021 authorises the approval of the amendment to the Convention of 20th March 2018 between the Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion and fraud with respect to taxes on […]

Decree no. 2021-19 of 11 January 2021 states that a dwelling is qualified as energy efficient when its consumption expressed in final energy per square metre per year is less than 450 kWh/m2.year in metropolitan France. It thus amends Decree No. 2002-120 of 30 January 2002 on the characteristics of decent housing in order to […]

The law of 1989 aimed at improving rental relations provides a framework for increasing rents, in tense areas, in the event of re-renting or renewal of a lease. The “Energy and Climate” Act makes rent increases in these areas, as from 1 January 2021, conditional on certain energy performance criteria in order to combat thermal […]

A decree of 23 December 2020 (NOR: LOGL2036977A, JO 31 Dec. 2020) updates, for the period between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021, the rates per square metre for the calculation of the tax for the creation of office, commercial and storage premises in the Île-de-France region (C. urb., art. L. 520-1 and L. […]

After the cities of Paris and Lille, the following eight EPCIs are candidates for the rent control experiment: the Plaine Commune public territorial establishment; Grand Orly Seine Bièvre (11 municipalities); the Public Territorial Establishment Est Ensemble; the Grand Paris Sud Seine Essonne Sénart conurbation community (Commune de Grigny); Bordeaux Métropole (City of Bordeaux); Grenoble Métropole […]

Decree no. 2020-1609 of 17 December 2020 relating to energy performance diagnostics and the display of information relating to the energy consumption of dwellings in advertisements and property leases, JORF no. 0305 of 18 December 2020, Text no. 40, extract: Public concerned: owners, co-owners, lessors and occupants, building professionals, property diagnosticians, co-owners’ associations, project managers, […]