DPE: "It's time of truth for diagnosticians, everyone must agree"

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This profession, whose mission has taken on crucial importance in recent years with the implementation of rental prohibitions, struggles to take shape. The diagnosticians, as well as individuals, would however have every interest, underlines Henry Buzy-Cazaux, founding president of the Institute of Real Estate Services.

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– “The bursting of the profession is prejudicial to union efficiency and complicates the task of decision -makers”, deplores our columnist.

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It is the youngest of the professions of the real estate sector: we can date the birth of the profession of diagnostician to the creation by the legislator, at the end of 1996, of the first diagnostic obligation during the sale of a condominium in condominiums , the indication of the area. Gilles Carrezthen deputy and mayor of the Perreux, in the Paris region, had tabled a bill so that housing buyers benefit from objective transparency as to the truly habitable area of good. Two considerations had prevailed to this new constraint for sellers, extended in 2009 to the same accommodation for rental: was it normal that the consumer knows the content of a bottle bought with fruit or wine, by the contents of a bottle, That of a much more expensive real estate? In addition, the notion of price per square meter had ended up imposing itself in the tense markets and the comparison between two dwellings, in two locations, was made hazardous without exact measurement of the area. It took to meet this need for information just that operators duly trained and equipped for this measurement act appear and provide the service.

Admittedly, we then experienced the time of illusion: real estate agents, the very individuals would be well capable of measuring, and successive laws, in 1996 and 2009, did not force a professional intervention … responsibility and independence quickly imposed the use of women and men of art. A profession had just been born. Its perimeter of action has since ceased to expand under the effect of the will of the public authorities of ever more transparency and consumer protection, in the universe of housing more than elsewhere having regard to the weight of challenges. About fifteen diagnoses – 11 exactly to date – must be established and provided to a buyer. The most famous now, which has erased the popularity of all the others, is the Energy performance diagnosis (DPE). It would rather be necessary to speak of fear and unpopularity, because a bad note takes consequences. Lourdes, devaluation of the property and prohibition to rent it or re -turn it.

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The debates are going well all over the place around this DPE: how Improve its reliability ? Is it normal to remember only the worst note of the two it provides, consumption and emission of greenhouse gases? Should not be admitted by the law of exceptions to the ban on renting? In what cases? THE Prohibition calendar Isn’t it unattainable? Some also lead fights to further accentuate the degree of information on goods: a figure in real estate, which has lost in an avalanche and the destruction of his house one of his sons, has been fighting for 30 years with the Last energy for exposure to this risk to be mentioned in the regions concerned … against mayors fearing the stigma of their station or their municipality. In short, the need to know everything about a good and the imperative of realism, which can lead to temperate or develop it, will long feed the discussions and the reflection of public decision -makers, and it is happy ultimately.

“A separation that complicates the representation of the profession”

At the same time, the young profession of diagnostician, aged just over 35, has a luxury: that of multiplying the unions which represent it, by offering public authorities an impressive number of interlocutors. No less than five organizations are the union landscape of this profession. Each has its reason for existing and there is no question of making a judgment on this ontological subject. The fact remains that this burst is prejudicial to union efficiency and complicates the task of decision -makers when they have the mission of improving and stabilizing diagnostic arsenal and practices. The most recent avatar of this small world – there are 10,000 natural persons diagnosticians in France – is the secession of the FNAIM diagnostician chamber, which has left the fold of the large house, causing the creation of an autonomous room and The recreation of a room inside FNAIM. The reason? The risk that belonging to a union of principals is oberred the independence of diagnosticians … At the end of an extensive assessment of the risk: the National Chamber of FNAIM experts, very old and very recognized professional family, has never been suspected of nourishing in its breast of weaknesses of weaknesses towards real estate agents or managers requesting for their owner customers an assessment for tax purposes for example. Regardless of the cause of separation: it has the effect of complicating the representation as soon as it leads to the recreation of yet another union.

By the way, we come to remember the sentence of Stalin, “the pope, how many divisions?” : union dispersion means that each union has only a reduced portion of the professional body. Only the union which brings together most of the national brands, integrated or franchise companies, Sidiane, can claim strong representativeness in terms of market share, undoubtedly two thirds for the DPE for example. Besides, this dispersion situation runs another risk: part of the diagnosticians, having difficulty choosing and determining which saint to devote himself, is not union, depriving himself of information and training that these unions offer. Without counting the alteration of the public credit of this profession whose role has become cardinal for the heritage and the life of households in a few years. The media mistreat it, by exhuming cases which testify that the path to respectability will be long. It is to the point that the government, which does not often mix with the internal affairs of the unions, does not hide regret this multiplication of trade union marks and calls for an alliance.

“Voices rise to claim an order”

In the meantime, diagnosticians do not grow in melee and unions, whether they like it or not, despite the efforts made by a few to unite the profession, offer the deleterious spectacle of a profession that does not hear oneself With itself while it is far from maturity: the sector is barely in the process of structuring, not yet having initial training cycles leading, neither a clean collective agreement, nor of control body, discipline or regulation. Voices even rise to claim an order, which puts by law everyone agrees. Still, union organizations would be necessary, and by definition they mean that the profession can be organized without going to draw the English Channel, at the risk of not being in its best light, that of responsibility and collective intelligence.