Law “DPE G”: its withdrawal can “condemn owners to a suspension of rent”

The bill aimed at softening the prohibition to rent G in the rental of G was rejected by the National Assembly. Donors and rental management professionals fear an explosion of litigation between owners and tenants.

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It was better to be an imperfect law than no law at all. So we can summarize the reactions of representatives of landlords and rental management professionals, this Thursday, January 30, the day after the withdrawal of the so -called “DPE G” billwhich aimed to soften the prohibition to rent the most energy -consuming housing, in force since January 1, 2025. Since that date, the accommodation noted G on the Energy performance diagnosis Can no longer be the subject of a new rental contract. And, during the renewal or the tacit renewal of the lease, the tenant of a good G is now entitled to assign his owner to justice to demand energy renovation and, while waiting for their realization, a Return reduction.

There “DPE G” billcarried by the deputies Bastien Marchive (radical party related together for the Republic) and Inaki Echaniz (socialists), and supported by the Minister of Housing Valérie Létard, provided several safeguard. First, if the landlord owner could not carry out energy renovation work due to the refusal of the architect of the buildings of France or the general meeting of co -ownership, for example, his accommodation g escaped the prohibition rental. Ditto if the tenant hoped the work, for example, for example by refusing access to housing to craftsmen. Finally, if the condominium was engaged in an energy renovation of the building, the accommodation G were exempt from prohibition of rental, the time of the work.

Towards a multiplication of litigation between owners and tenants

But the bill was rejected on Wednesday January 29, by an exploded National Assembly. “The bill has been withdrawn for simple political quarrelseven though she would have offered a puff of oxygen to thousands of landlords by softening the ban on renting classified g ”deplores Sylvain Grataloup, president of the National Union of Real Estate Owners. As a reminder, the private rental fleet has almost 600,000 homes G.

“The fate of housing G is sealed, the donors concerned are exposed to sanctions even if the necessary renovations depend on decisions of the condominium. They can be sentenced to reduction, or even suspension, rent»»is worried about Danielle Dubrac, president of the United Unis, an organization which represents several real estate professions. And add: “While this law was to limit disputes (between owners and tenants), its withdrawal will multiply them”.

Exclude tacit renewal of leases from the rental ban

As for the National Real Estate Federation (FNAIM), which regretted that the bill “Do not respond enough to the emergency” to fight against the shortage of rentals, it “Regret” even more than “Games of (political) (political) parties today condemn millions of tenants and owners to insecurity”. Concretely, some landlords, who have not The means to undertake an energy renovationmay sell their goods or leave them vacant. In the key “”Hundreds of thousands of tenants which will be deprived of housing ”alert Loïc Cantin, president of FNAIM.

He therefore offers “Work on a new text” of law, which would begin by excluding from the prohibition of rental the accommodation G being the subject of a tacit renewal of lease. The objective being “Avoid absurd situations, where owners are penalized for (rental) contracts signed before the entry into force of the new rules” Energy indecency, argues the president of FNAIM. Which also requires “Clarification” of the case of short -term rentalsWho “Benefit from a suspension of the energy indecency until 2034 for any rented accommodation registered on a (rental) platform before the promulgation of the so-called“ anti-aiirbnb ”law of November 20, 2024”. “”With these differences in calendars, condominium trustees cannot reconcile the (work) decisions of co -owners who do not have the same obligations and interest ”, underlines Loïc Cantin.