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Paris Region real estate market: a chaotic 2020

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.  

Housing construction: results to the end of January 2021

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 […]

Definition of energy-efficient housing

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 […]

Rental management – Residential leases

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 […]

Publication of 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

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, […]

Applications for planning permission now online

After an experimental phase, the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition and Service-public.fr have put the final version of the assistance for planning permission applications (ADAU) online. This approach allows you to apply for planning permission online. Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, press release, 8 December 2020 (in French)
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