Corinne Jolly invites the government to “make a more realistic and more applicable law”.
Whatever the government’s decision, “the law will not be respected“, reacts Wednesday September 27 on franceinfo Corinne Jolly, president of the real estate site Particulier à Particulier (PAP) after the declarations of Bruno Le Maire. In the columns of the newspaper Le Parisien/Today in Francethe Minister of the Economy declares, “personally”in favor of a postponement of the ban on renting “thermal strainers”.
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To encourage owners to undertake insulation work, the “Climate and Resilience” law, promulgated in August 2021, provides for a ban on rental from January 1, 2025 of housing classified “G” and in 2028 of those classified “ F” by the new energy performance diagnosis (DPE). Bruno Le Maire “considers that everything that was decided before the rise in interest rates deserves to be looked at again in the light of this crisis.” The minister adds: “with my colleague at the Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu, we are ready to open this debate.”
“He simply has the honesty to recognize” that the calendar “will not be required to shift it or not shift it”, estimates the president of Particulier à Particulier. Because she continues, “There are a lot of problems.” Corinne Jolly emphasizes in particular that there are shortages of materials, owners struggle to find available craftsmen, and that they are faced with town planning rules which, according to her, lack clarity.
“Impossible to renovate five million homes by 2028”
“This law acts as if everything depended solely on the will of the owners”, deplores Corinne Jolly. However, on the pap.fr site, “Every day we see owners who have accepted the principle of renovation and who don’t know at all how to go about it and who don’t succeed”. For example, “the DPE [diagnostic de performance énergétique] has been around for ten years and we’ve been redoing it five times to make it reliable.”. According to her, owners are harmed by changes in established criteria, for example, “the latest DPE, which dates from 2021, is a little more favorable to electric heating than the previous one”.
Thus, Corinne Jolly believes that it will be “impossible to renovate five million homes by 2028” because “There are a lot of topics to discuss”. She emphasizes that on average 100,000 housing units “are really renovated” every year. The president of the Particulier à Particulier site also considers that the ban on renting “energy strainers”, is not a pragmatic measure, “given the state of the rental market, given the lack of offers”. In these conditions, “It’s impossible for us to put energy into removing these accommodations from the rental stock”. According to her, “the rules will inevitably be circumvented”.
And since “we are very, very far from the objectives”, the president of PAP invites the government to “work on problems” has “try to make a law more realistic and more applicable”. Without this, “the law will not be respected”. There will not be “in his opinion” of controls. It will be, she adds “an open secret” and we will do “as if it were respected”. According to Corinne Jolly, “this will not be the first real estate law that is not applied and over which there is no massive control.”