The new Minister of Housing, Vincent Jeanbrun, may well promise to integrate the creation of a real tax status of the private lessor in the 2026 budget, via a government amendment, several deputies preferred to table theirs without delay. In broad terms, the amendments tabled by Joël Bruneau (Libertés, independents overseas and territories, Liot) and François Jolivet (Horizons) propose the possibility, for new landlords, of deducting each year from the amount of their rental income 3% of the purchase price of the accommodation, according to the damping mechanismin return for capped rents. Amendments less generous than the 4% to 5% proposed by the Daubresse-Cosson parliamentary report last June, but undoubtedly more compatible with the need to save public funds.
However, the general rapporteur of the finance committee of the National Assembly, Philippe Juvin, issued a unfavorable opinion to these amendments, rejected by the committee this Tuesday, October 21. Without denying their “interesting direction”he stressed that they represented “a total upheaval” in terms of real estate taxation. This is precisely what the National Union of Real Estate Owners (Unpi) has been calling for for around ten years, in order to counterbalance the multiplication of regulatory constraints, such as rent controls, rental permits or even the progressive ban on the rental of thermal strainers.
A meeting with the minister for a common position on the private lessor?
Faced with the rental investment crisis, “we will not survive without an amendment creating the status of the private lessor!”exclaimed Charles de Courson (Liot). “Housing is the most important subject in our countryToday”added François Jolivet, specifying that 64% of social housing built in 2025 was built by real estate developers. However, without rental investors, developers are not able to launch their construction programs. “It is necessary to create the status of private lessor” in the 2026 budget, added the socialist Inaki Echaniz, while saying he was unfavorable to the Bruneau and Jolivet amendments and assuring “to work” for his part, with other deputies, to a draft amendment with a view to the debate on the budget in public session, which will begin on Friday.
“You move forward in a scattered manner, so there is a risk that nothing will happen”warned Philippe Juvin. And the general rapporteur of the finance committee of “propose to the most advanced deputies on the creation of a status of private lessor of meet with the Minister of Housing by Thursday morning, the deadline for tabling MPs’ amendments for the public session, in order to share some objectives. We need to find a working tool for the public session, the government will be present, we will have constructive discussions”. Otherwise, the status of the private landlord will more than ever deserve its nickname of Arlesienne. Contacted by CapitalVincent Jeanbrun’s office says “favorable to a meeting to discuss”.
