Notary fees: here is how much their increase will increase your real estate purchase from April 2025

The finance law for 2025, which should be promulgated in the coming days, authorizes communities who wish to increase transfer duties for consideration. This will be the case in the capital, which this week subjects a deliberation in this sense to the Paris Council.

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No, this is not an April Fool. It is indeed for notarial acts concluded from April 1, 2025, and until March 31, 2028, that the departments that wish can fall under 0.5 points, to 5%, the rate of the departmental tax, the ‘one of the components of transfer rights for consideration (Dmto). Improperly called notary feesthe DMTOs are due by any real estate buyer. They represent 7 to 8% of the purchase price in the old and 2 to 3% in new. Their increase is provided for by the Initial finance law For 2025, which should be promulgated in the coming days. Neither one nor two, the City of Parisendowed with departmental competence, has just announced its intention to increase the “notary fees” on April 1 deliberation Submitted to the Paris Council, which begins this Tuesday, February 11.

“It was only a faculty offered to local communities, by no means an obligation!”is indignant in a press release the Change Paris group (republicans, centrists and independent), which, under the leadership of its president Rachida Dati, mayor of the 7th arrondissement and Minister of Culture, denounces “An inevitable increase in taxes in Paris as long as the capital is directed by the left”. “Concretely, for the purchase of a property worth 300,000 euros in Paris, Notary fees will increase by 1,500 euros»»Calculate Change Paris. And this, while they are already counting in “Tens of thousands of euros”.

Primo-receivers not affected

On the basis of the fork of 7 to 8% of the purchase price in the oldnotary fees amount to 22,500 euros in the case of a property bought 300,000 euros. Knowing that in Paris, for this sum, you can hardly acquire a studio or a two room. “For a good of 600,000 euros, it will be 3,000 euros in increased notary fees ! “exclaims to change Paris. Which “Will complicate the home ownership of the middle classes”denounces the opposition group to the socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo.

In fact, for a real estate buyer, the increase of 0.5 point of notary fees “Will represent 500 euros additional for each tranche of 100,000 euros the purchase price of the property “recently estimated Elodie Frémont, notary in Paris, evoking “A Cfinancial harge not negligible “. The increase in DMTOs “However, does not apply when the property acquired constitutes for the purchaser a first property and it is intended for the use of his main residence”specifies the deliberation submitted to the Council of Paris. The finance law for 2025 indeed provides that “The departments may decide a reduced rate or an exemption for first-time buyers».