DPE: This fall, a QR code will allow you to verify the seriousness of the diagnostician

An integral part of the government plan to combat DPE fraud, QR Codes allowing households to check the seriousness of the diagnosticians will be available in the fall of 2025.

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Each year, no less than four million of Energy performance diagnostics (DPE) are made in France, in particular, real estate sales, this document being compulsory in such cases. A figure given by the Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, in March. Of these four million DPEs, 70,000 are diagnoses of conveniencewhich note for example the accommodation E instead of G in order to allow its owner to continue to rent it. Classified G housing are indeed prohibited from renting since January 1, 2025. A ban that will apply to goods rated F in 2028 then to E in 2034. Not to mention fraud, the realization of a DPE sometimes differs so much from one diagnostician to the other than “Some (co -owners) have seen label differences on the same good”, underlines the United Professional Syndicate, which brings together real estate agents, rental managers and property administrators.

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 declared Valérie Létard, announcing, in March, a plan to fight against the DPE fraud. A blacklist of indelicate diagnosticians already exists, with 500 people have taken off since mid-2012, that is to say forbidden to exercise for six months. This duration will be brought to two years.

Energy renovation: more than 1,000 euros per square meter to wear the DPE of g to e

Four times more controls

Furthermore, the 10,000 diagnosticians identified in France will be controlled each year, four times more than today. Controls that will be carried out using artificial intelligence, via a QR code which, once downloaded on the website of the ecological transition agency (ADEME), will make it possible to check the quality of the DPEs carried out by each diagnostician. In particular the time spent to realize it, which should not be less than 45 minutes, Or DPE systematically at the limit between two classes, E and D, for example, or incoherent assessments compared to similar goods. The QR Code will also allow property owners to verify that the diagnostician is not radiated. Geolocation will be used to verify that the diagnostician has done the DPE on site. These QR Codes to check the qualification of diagnosticians will be available in the fall of 2025, announces the Ministry of Housing this Friday, June 27.

The DPE also will be the subject of a QR code, which you can download on the ADEME website, also from next fall, to verify that it has been carried out in the rules of the art. Finally, to prevent owner with a diagnostician to obtain, for example, a DPE D instead of F, the result of the diagnosis will be issued in a dematerialized manner in the evening or the day after the professional’s visit in the accommodation, and no longer immediately.