the risk of cracks lowers the sale price of houses

The srepeated dry spells in the sectors with clay soils are causing more and more cracks in houses. This risk pourwould be included in real estate diagnosis. Yves Bernard’s son bought recently Aand butwe know about itissanthis cause, with the visible cracks. He work had to be done. The idice of a diagnostic obligatory seems logical to him : a question transparency and of tranquility pOrr buyers vsas sellers.

Half of French houses affected by the risk

A real estate agency put on sale a cracked house without reparations. “The price was 20 % cheaper thanand thestarting estimate”explains Marie Riffardreal estate agent in Crest (Drôme). For this professional, a diagnostic linked to the sedear “pourrait reassuresr the buyers” while being “more relevant”. Patrice Szinetaowner in Crest, sell a house entirely redone, has 450,000 euros. “We are mnow on a house stronger than there house next doore which has not been cracked but which risks being”, he believes. Approximately the half of the individual housesideals in France are concerned by this risk. In 2022, THE amount of losses linked to drought on clay soils was estimated at 3mbillions euros.

Among the sources

Cracked houses: the main measures of the report submitted to the Minister of the Interior

Government portal Georisks, which lists natural risks in France and offers mapping

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