Real estate market shaken by the covid-19 epidemic
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 health emergency, the almost instantaneous halt in real estate activities marks a completely new situation: for the first time, the machine has suddenly stopped working, even though it showed undisputed dynamism, with double-digit growth at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020! (…)
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ELAN supervision: the judicial court of Paris initiates the movement
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Incomplete posting of a building permit and time limits for appeals
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. […]
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 […]