An additional burden comes for many owners.
Between credit, charges, taxes and maintenance, owning real estate is far from being an investment without financial constraints. Every year, homeowners see their expenses increase with inflation and regulatory changes. At 1er January 2025, a new one came into force and will, once again, force some of these French people to go back to the cash register.
Owners of individual homes can breathe easy, this new obligation does not concern them. It targets all those who hold property in co-ownership, that is to say in a building or on land comprising several houses.
For two years, the State has required owners of these types of homes to assess the condition of their property. For this, two types of evaluations have been put in place: the energy performance diagnosis, better known by the abbreviation DPE, as well as the multi-year work plan, called PPT.
DPE is not new. What changes is that until now, it concerned goods individually. From now on, the State requires that a collective DPE be carried out in co-ownerships. And it’s obligatory. Since 1er January 2024, co-ownerships of more than 200 lots (housing, annexed premises, parking spaces combined) are concerned and, since January 1er January 2025, those with between 50 and 200 lots must comply.
As for the PPT, this must make it possible to establish a list, if necessary, of the work to be undertaken to improve the level of insulation and energy consumption of the building. If buildings with 50 lots or more are already concerned, those with between 1 and 50 lots are now also subject to this obligation since 1er January.
However, these diagnoses require the intervention of specialized professionals, and costs can quickly escalate. For a DPE, you need to count between 1,000 and 5,000 euros, depending on the size of the building. The PPT, for its part, costs between 5,000 and 15,000 euros. The price is then distributed among all owners.
Although there is no provision for sanctions in the event of non-completion of DPE and PPT, this could however have consequences. “If an owner is unable to rent or sell his apartment due to poor energy classification of his accommodation resulting from common areas or collective facilities, the responsibility of the co-owners’ association may be engaged,” explains the site. public service.
Concerning the absence of PPT, insurance companies could decide not to pay compensation following a claim, if they consider that the claim could have been prevented and avoided thanks to a prior diagnosis.