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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. […]

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, […]

In a ruling of 5 June 2020, the Conseil d’État clarified the concept of covisibility characterising protected buildings in the vicinity of historic monuments. EC 5 June 2020, req. no. 431994, extract (in French) (…) 4. It follows from the combination of these provisions that building permits may be issued only with the agreement of […]

Through a note on the real estate situation, the Notaires de France present the market for real estate transactions following the exceptional situation of containment that France is facing in the fight against the covid-19 epidemic. Real Estate Economic Note n° 47, 20 Apr. 2020, extract : (…) As a consequence of the state of […]

On April 18, 2020, the Groupe de recherche sur la copropriété (GRECCO) issued two notes concerning the holding of general meetings in the context of our health emergency. The first note (recommendation no. 8, 18 Apr. 2020) deals with the holding of face-to-face general meetings during the covid-19 virus epidemic and after this period. As […]

In order to refuse to order the demolition of an irregularly sited public work, the judge must ensure, when an appropriate regularization is possible, that the procedure has been envisaged and is likely to succeed. EC 28 Feb. 2020, req. no. 425743, extract : (…) Where the administrative court is seised of an application for […]