DPE G: The Senate softens in committee the rental ban, even for houses

The Senate’s economic affairs committee adopted, on March 26, the bill allowing co -ownership housing to derogate from the prohibition of rental of goods rated G on the DPE. She extended this text to individual houses.

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Since January 1, 2025, the housing noted G On the energy performance diagnosis (DPE) are prohibited from rental. However, the energy renovation work necessary to improve the note of the DPE are complicated in condominiums, due to the complexity and the length of the decision -making. At the very beginning of the year, two deputies had failed to adopt by the National Assembly a bill establishing derogations from the prohibition of rental For G -located in condominiums. Senator Amel Gacquerre has taken over the main lines of this text, supported by the Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, in a bill, adopted by the Senate economic affairs committee this Wednesday, March 26. A commission that has however “Enriched” This text, she underlines on the Senate website.

Intended for “Clarify the energy renovation obligations of housing and to secure their application in co -ownership”the bill excludes the landlord less from a housing G of the prohibition of rental if he made “All renovations technically and legally possible»» To try to improve the DPE note. For example, if an architect of buildings in France opposes your energy renovation work, and you are able to prove it, you will escape the ban on rent your accommodation. Ditto if you can attest to the refusal of the co-ownership trustee to initiate work in the common areas without which your property, for example located above the garage or on the top floor of the building, cannot see its improved DPE.

The cost of renovation taken into account

The Commission has expanded the list of these derogations to Cost of energy renovation. If this cost turns out “Obviously disproportionate to the value of the property”you will be exempt from the rental prohibition. In addition, in order to limit the Refusal of complacency On the part of the co -ownership trustee, the Commission specifies that this refusal is only worth it if it occurred less than three years ago. Finally, noting that the Individual houses are the housing that has the most energy customers within the private rental stock, with a rate of 23% against 17% for condominium goods, the Commission integrates them in the field of the bill.

Furthermore, condominiums comprising people with divergent interests, between occupying owners not concerned by the prohibition for the rental of thermal and landlord owners, the Commission hopes that the Collective DPE – that of the building – rather than that of individual housing, when its note makes it possible to satisfy the obligation of energy decency.

A public meeting exam in the Senate on April 1

And, in order to take into account the situation of Small condominiums, “Often the less well maintained and those with the most energy colanders”the Commission decided not to maintain the requirement of the use of a prime contractor within the framework of the commitment of works by the co -ownership.

In the initial text of Amel Gacquerre, if the General Assembly of Co -ownership agreed to vote an energy renovation of the common areas allowing to improve the note of your accommodation, you could derogate from the prohibition of rental during the work, provided that the union had signed a Project management contract With a professional responsible for coordinating the site. The commission has deleted this condition. The bill will be examined by the Senate in public session on April 1.