Many owners are stuck in a financial impasse concerning the future of their accommodation.
Being an owner is certainly to be at home, but it is also paying several taxes and submitting to various obligations. The latter are becoming more and more numerous and, to comply with the law, many must get their hands on the wallet. Particularly due to the new rules related to energy performance diagnosis (DPE).
This document, which allows us to know what is the level of insulation and energy consumption of a house or an apartment, has become central. It notably influences the sale price and the rental of a property. Some owners may soon pay the price, to the chagrin of their heritage.
For the past fifty years, many French people have chosen to buy a secondary school residence – in the mountains. Thanks to the “snow plan” carried out between 1964 and 1977, many ski resorts came out of the ground and the investors flocked, acquiring apartments in large sets built quickly without real energy reflection.
Five decades later, the situation changed and energy consumption is at the heart of political concerns, with one objective: its decrease. Thus, a new law has entered into force: classified G housing can no longer be rented, the F will be prohibited from 2028 and E from 2034. However, in the mountains, 30% of the dwellings are classified G and F and 37% are classified E. In total, within nine years, 67% of the accommodation in the mountains could be prohibited for rental, according to the Fnaim.
A real time bomb for owners. If the rental is prohibited, it is a loss of income that is announced, coupled with a drop in the value of their property. The double penalty. To comply, work must necessarily be undertaken. But their cost can quickly quantify, with an uncertain result.
“The owners hesitate to pay 30 to 40,000 euros to carry out renovation work, especially since there is no point in renovating a housing alone in a thermal co -ownership if there is no global project renovation of the condominium, “explains David Chouraqui, deputy director general of Crédit Agricole Immobilier with the Particular.
“In addition, work from the interior, on small areas, between 20 m2 and 30 m2, will make the rooms unwelcome because they will do less than 9 m2 because of the loss of space generated by insulation,” adds Thomas Arnéodo, co -president of the vacation rental committee at FNAIM in the columns of Parisian.
To this are added the operational difficulties to conduct the work (spring/summer only), the additional cost of approximately 15% compared to a site in the plain and the absence of state financial aid when it is acts on second homes. So many brakes that do not facilitate the release of an almost impossible situation for these owners. Unless a new big financial investment.