Real estate: Build a second home? It’s over in these tourist cities

The City of Royan has just banned the construction of second homes in certain real estate programs. She followed Le Pas in Chamonix and Bonifacio.

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Fell in love with Royanyou were about to have a holiday home built there. Las! The municipal council of this seaside resort of Charente-Maritime voted, Tuesday, May 13, a modification of the local urban plan (PLU) which imposes “a Obligation of use of principal residence in some new constructions of new housing»». Concretely, on an area of ​​almost 17 hectares, where real estate programs will emerge from the ground in the coming years, future homes will have to be used as main residences only. It will be forbidden to buy them to make them secondary residences.

The Town Hall of Royan does not release this initiative from its hat but from the so-called “anti-aiirbnb” law of November 2024, which aims at Promote accommodated accommodation for the year Rather than occasional, tourist housing. “A real estate operation, in the town, alerted us. Of the 50 private dwellings put up for sale, only 15 are intended to be occupied year -round. It is not possible to continue like this ”explains the first deputy mayor, Didier Simonnet, in the columns of the Sud-Ouest newspaper. In fact, second homes represent no less than 43.2% of housing in Royan, according to INSEE.

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70% second homes in Chamonix

A proportion that climbs 70% in Chamonix Mont-Blanc. This is why the elected officials of the famous ski resort decreed that they did not want “Pread no new secondary residence on almost all of the town ”in a press release published on March 11. This, through a local urban planning plan “Radically turned to permanent housing”. Like their Royan counterparts, they rely on the new “anti-aiirbnb” law, also nicknamed law “the murder”, named after the deputy who brought it, to “Establish permanent housing easements” And no longer allow any new construction of second home.

By rejoicing to be at the origin “ofNe first in France»»elected Chamoniards may not have suspected that their example would be emulated so quickly. From the following month, the city of Bonifacioin Corsica, became the first coastal commune in France to prohibit the construction of second homes in all of the urbanized areas of its territory. An easement inscribed in the local urban plan which will be arrested in September. It must be said that second homes represent more than half – 54% Exactly – from the housing park to Bonifacio, according to INSEE. The mayor therefore intends to dedicate the main residences only the 87 hectares of still constructible land, compared to 5,000 hectares about twenty years ago.