Notary fees: here are how much you will pay in Paris, and from what date

The transfer duties expensive, also called notary fees, will increase by 0.5 points in Paris from April 1. An increase in taxation which will increase the buyers’ bill.

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Blow for Parisian owners. From April 1, 2025, transfer duties for consideration (DMTO), more commonly known as notary fees, will increase by 0.5 points for real estate transactions carried out in the capital. This increase was expected since the Paris Council, led by the socialist Anne Hidalgo, voted on Tuesday February 11 in favor of the increase in the DMTO ceiling of 0.5 points, as allows the 2025 finance law, now promulgated in the Official Journal. Note that this measure does not concern first-time buyers.

As a reminder, the DMTOs, which are due by any real estate buyer, represent 7 to 8% of the purchase price in the old and 2 to 3% in the new. Composed of two taxes – the departmental tax on land advertising and the municipal tax on registration rights -, the DMTOs are perceived mainly by local authorities, such as departments and municipalities. Since the promulgation of the 2025 budget, each department has had the possibility of increasing the notary fees at most 0.5% of the purchase price of a property.

An additional cost of 1,500 euros for a property worth 300,000 euros

The city of Paris is therefore the first French department having chosen to raise the transfer rights. “”We are obliged to use this tax lever under constraint, to finance the state deficit“, Pled Paul Simondon, assistant of Anne Hidalgo to the mayor of Paris in charge of finance, with the France Press agency, Tuesday, February 11. According to the elected official, this increase in notary fees should report a “A recipe of several tens of millions of euros”to the city of Paris.

For example, on the basis of the range of 7 to 8% of the purchase price in the old one, notary fees amount to 22,500 euros in the case of a property purchased 300,000 euros, About the cost of an apartment around thirty square meters in Paris. According to Elodie Frémont, notary in Paristhe increase of 0.5 point of notary fees “Will represent an additional 500 euros for each branch of 100,000 euros in the purchase price of the property”. For a property bought 300,000 euros, this therefore represents an increase in notary fees of around 1,500 euros. Note that if you have a real estate purchase project in Paris, you can still escape this increase in notary fees by carrying out the transaction before April 1.