Tenant or buyer of a real estatethe energy performance diagnostic sheet (DPE), with its green, yellow, orange and red colors, is undoubtedly the one that skips you the most in the bundle of documents given by thereal estate agent. From this Monday, September 1, this document is enriched by a QR codetop right. It is enough for the tenant or the buyer to scan him with his phone to find out if the DPE which has been communicated to him corresponds well to that recorded on the site of the ADEME (agency of the ecological transition) after its realization, or If it is a false. This control was already possible when entering the 13 -digit code, appearing on each DPE card, on the ADEME website (ecological transition agency) dedicated to energy performance diagnosis. It was still necessary to know … This verification becomes simpler with the QR code.
A verification not to be overlooked because, each year, out of the four million DPEs carried out in France, 70,000 are diagnoses of conveniencewhich note, for example, a thermal colander E instead of G in order to allow its owner to continue to rent it. In view of the cost of the DPE, which oscillates Between 150 and 250 eurosand “Its importance in the value of real estate, this figure of 70,000, even if it represents only 1.7% of the number of DPEs made, is not acceptable”had decreed Valérie Létard, the Minister of Housing, announcing, last March, a plan to fight against fraud to the DPE.
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A QR code to certify the authenticity of the DPE
A plan for which the QR code has been compulsory since Monday on the DPE report established by the diagnostician. “The objective is to fight against fraud, of Guarantee the authenticity of diagnostics and strengthen the trust of owners and tenants ”insists Valérie Létard, in a message published on the LinkedIn social network. If, once scanned, the QR does not refer to any DPE on the site https://observatoire-dpe-audit.ademe.fr/,, “It’s that he’s wrong”simply, explains Eric Houdet, founder of the start-up Homapi, provider of technical information on housing, in a platform published this Monday.
So, “”The buyer can no longer be deceived on the real value of the property “he underlines. In fact, with the climate and resilience law of 2021, which gradually prohibits the rental of energy colanders, the DPE has become a central element in the value of real estate, likely to decreat a discount compared to the market.
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A second QR code for diagnosticians
The tenant, him, “Will finally know if his accommodation is energy -consuming or not”continues Eric Houdet. Important information because it can authorize it to request a lower rent In the event of a rental of accommodation noted G, a prohibited rental label since January 1. A second QR code will see the light of day “In the fall”according to the Ministry of Housing. It will allow owners to verify the qualification of around 10,000 diagnosticians in France and to ensure that they are not struck off from their profession.
