Maprimerenov: the imperative of continuity

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Fraud obliges, among other things, the filing of requests from Maprimerénov will be suspended from early July to mid-September. But Bercy would not be embarrassed with the idea of ​​not regaining financing of operations until January 2026, to lower public credit consumption, warns Henry Buzy-Cazeaux, president of the Institute of Management of Real Estate Services.

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French households and existing housing professionals and energy renovation had a very unpleasant surprise these days: the press has echoed the stop of flagship aid to the ecological transition of the residential park, the very popular Maprimerénov. We have read, first in Le Parisien and soon elsewhere in the press, that the current requests would be honored and that July would sound the end of the distribution of the aid. The alleged causes? Fraud, in proportions superior to the eligible, flirting with one in five files, and the success of the aid, having led to a conflict of the instructing services of the National Housing Agency. It has also been heard that public money was lacking and that budgetary commitments, voted by Parliament, could not be held.

The truth is a little different, but there is no smoke without fire. The arbitrations are not yet definitively rendered and the Minister of the Economy has undoubtedly been too quick to communicate. However, he did not do it without calculation … First, the envelope voted will be used and the funds will be mobilized as planned. On the other hand, the proven risks of fraud unbearablely extend the deadlines for setting up aid: it is heavy damage for households living in individual housing, and even more for condominiums which must postpone the start of construction sites or shoot on payment deadlines with companies. In general, the success of Maprimerénov is real and the human resources devoted to the ANAH (National Housing Agency) are insufficient. This problem is starting to compromise the very momentum of the environmental change in condominiums: the most committed trustees see their complicated relationship with mandatory condominiums because of funding delays and it is to be feared that the best professional wishes will be discouraged.

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The time is for environmental realism

The heaviest mortgage concerns the continuation of the suspension period provided by the government, to absorb the flow of suffering files … and to lower public credit consumption. Bercy would not be embarrassed with the idea of ​​not regaining the financing of operations in January 2026 … The Minister of Housing and number of influential parliamentarians do not hear it by this ear: to close during a semester access to Maprimerénov is to break the dynamics so difficult to engage. It is also to make the game of the postponement of the implementation of the prohibitions to rent the climate and resilience law of August 22, 2021, and it is to promise the energy transition to a future as fatal as that of the ZFE … In this regard, the supplements of the sector are not closely corporatist: the continuity of aid guarantees the continuity of the ecological transition of the park, in particular rental. It is vital that the distribution of Maprimerenov resumed in September.

We also know, already, that the regulatory criteria giving the right to the premium will harden. Public money is rare and rights cannot be as open as they are today. They will probably be refocused on low -income households and this social choice is understandable. Another bolt could be revised, and you have to be careful with this adjustment, desired by Bercy: subject access to Maprimerénov to a global renovation or, for condominiums, to increased energy savings gains. The time is not fundamentalism, but for environmental realism.

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We undoubtedly live the latest generous year

For the rest, this episode, and this is the calculation to which the Minister of the Everseium has engaged, warned the whole of France: the boxes of the State are empty, and more than empty since they accuse an abyssal deficit. It is also necessary to take the measure that the money pointed out is ours and that any allowance runs the risk of the increase in taxes … From now on, the State can redistribute only what it brings in, and a little less to absorb the bottomless budget hole. It is tempting to match the obligation of energy virtue accompanied by threats of prohibition to rent and right to help … This equation, for logic as it is, will soon have no lessons, except for the most fragile. And God knows that the French find it difficult to understand this paradigm shift. However, it is essential. We are probably living in the latest generous year.

This means that households will have to count more on the use of their own means of financing, in particular by soliciting their savings and support by banks thanks to loans, individual or collective in the world of condominium. Éric Lombard introduced a corner in the building, in the order of Matignon’s warnings on the need that each contributes to the reduction of the deficit. The message is violent, but it imposes itself on us. To this austerity, it is certain that housing must partly escape, on behalf of its social importance and what it relates to public finances on VIVs and various national or local taxes. Nevertheless.

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Fears on Maprimerénov must take off the eyes of the nation

Moreover, the fate of the tax status of the investor is suspended from the possibility of bringing formal proof of a return in terms of rapid and insured tax revenue. Without this, Bercy will be hostile there and the argument of social profit to house households will be pale alongside the risk of bankruptcy of the country, now non -theoretical. This project, shaped by the Minister of Housing, has another virtue: to take the taxation of the lessor of the exceptions and niches to include it in ordinary law, by recognizing the entrepreneurial role of the rental investor.

In short, fears on Maprimerénov must take off the eyes of the nation. They are nevertheless to be tempered by the place apart from housing in public policies. On the other hand, to believe without discernment that this special role of housing will dispense with contributing to the collective effort to return to budgetary orthodoxy would constitute an illusion, that the next finance law for 2026 will brutally dissipate.