Real estate: the Minister of Territories calculates the increase in “notary fees” for a purchase of €200,000

The Minister for Partnership with the Territories, Catherine Vautrin, justifies the next increase in transfer taxes for payment, planned for 2025. And gives an idea of ​​the financial burden that the increase in this tax which all property buyers pay will represent .

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Faced with the prospects ofincrease in real estate taxesMP Frédéric Falcon (National Rally) put his foot down during the government questions session at the National Assembly on Wednesday, November 20. Addressing the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, the parliamentarian criticized his announcement, on November 15, of an increase of 0.5 points, in 2025, of transfer duties for valuable consideration (DMTO), incorrectly called “transfer fees”. notary” insofar as they mainly consist of local and national taxes. DMTOs, which you pay when you buy real estate, “already represent around 8% of the sale price, a record in Europe»underlined the parliamentarian, citing a proportion of only 2% in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and even Austria.

And “banks most often condition the granting of real estate loans on the financing of DMTOs by personal contribution buyers”underlined Frédéric Falcon. The MP therefore believes that the future increase in DMTO “will further degrade the real estate purchasing power of the French»already undermined by credit rates which quadrupled between the start of 2022 and the start of 2024 and which remain high, at 3.56% on average in September, according to the Banque de France.

500 to 1,000 euros additional “notary fees”

“Mr Prime Minister, do you confirm this increase in notary fees?”asked Frédéric Falcon. It was the Minister of Partnership with the Territories, Catherine Vautrin, who answered him, and directly. The increase in DMTO is one of the five measures recently taken by the government to reduce the burden on local communitiesfrom which he initially demanded five billion euros in savings in the finance bill (PLF) for 2025, currently being examined by Parliament.

Within local authorities, “the departments present a particular case, the payment of individual solidarity allowances (such as the RSA, active solidarity income) representing an extremely significant burden for them”explained Catherine Vautrin. This is why the PLF 2025 will give them the possibility of increasing the DMTO by 0.5 points. Which will represent “of 500 to 1,000 euros (“notary fees”) in addition for the purchase of real estate worth 200,000 euros, depending on the territory”specified the minister. To whom Frédéric Falcon promised “censorship” following the examination of the draft budget for 2025, if “the government persists on this path”.