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Real estate: thermal strainers, a good plan for buyers?
Thermal strainers are shaking up the sales market. Some buyers actually take advantage of this to get good deals. Explanations. – (France 2)
Thermal strainers are shaking up the sales market. Some buyers actually take advantage of this to get good deals. Explanations.
Jean-Michel Lecomte is finalizing the sale of the Parisian apartment in which he was born. Its 40 m2 has a downside: a poor energy rating. Category F, it is considered a thermal strainer. Buyers were able to negotiate lower. “This is an additional expense item for buyers, and it is necessarily part of the negotiation“, explains Abel Medjouba, real estate advisor at SAFTI.
Voluntarily buy a thermal strainer to get a low price
The owner sold his property in just four months, but for 327,000 euros, 40,000 less than expected. Voluntarily buying a thermal strainer to get a low price is the bet of a couple in the Paris region. They bought an apartment of 75 m2 rated F, at a knockdown price. “Basically it was more like 500,000 euros. (…) By waiting a year we went to 430,000, then to 400,000“, says the buyer, Valérie Monthe. The bill would have to rise to 30,000 euros to go from F to D. “Buying a thermal strainer was the best opportunity we had to reduce our costs“, says her husband, Nathan.