Rental investment: Does the management of rents live its last months?

Planned by a law of 2018, the experimentation of the management of rents is underway in 69 cities. A mission has just been launched to assess its effectiveness. And determine whether this experiment will end in 2026 or will be extended.

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With the praise and the gradual prohibition for the rental of thermal colanders, theRent supervisionintended to restore purchasing power to tenants, has become one of the main brakesrental investment. Provided for by the 2018 Elan law, Experimentation of rent supervision is underway in 69 cities located in a tense area, where the demand for housing is much higher than the supply. This is the case of Paris, Lille, Lyon, Villeurbanne, Montpellier, Bordeaux, inter-municipalities of Seine-Saint-Denis that are a common plain and is together, as well as certain municipalities in the Basque Country.

This experimentation to end in November 2026the Prime Minister launched, on April 7, a mission in order to assess its effectiveness and decide its extension or not. For its part, the National Assembly Committee of the National Assembly launched its own mission to assess the rents of rents, which should make its conclusions in September.

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The supervision of endangered rents?

Already, several local communities and the foundation for the housing of disadvantaged (ex-Father Pierre-Pierre) judge, during a press conference this Thursday, June 12, that “”The sustainability of this public policy is today threatenedno prospect of extension being announced to date by the government ”. And for good reason, the assessment mission entrusted by François Bayrou to the academics Gabrielle Fack and Guillaume Chapelle just being worn on the baptismal font.

The mayors of Paris, Lille, Lyon, Annecy and the agglomeration community of the Basque Country nevertheless decided to “Mobilize”, Alongside the foundation for the disadvantaged accommodation, in order to “Perpetuate a tool that has become essential to regulate the rental market”. A tool that “”beneficial effects are today tangible»»they assure. According to a study by the Foundation for the Housing of the disadvantaged published last September, 28 % of the rental announcements do not respect the supervision of rents in the different cities where it is experienced. A figure down 2 points compared to 2023.

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Elected officials from Paris for the abolition of rent supervision

In Paris, the proportion of advertisements exceeding the Plays rent fixed by prefectural decree, on the other hand, increased, to 30%, against 28% in 2023. The Paris town hall, does not bother, evaluating at 984 euros per yearon average, the economy carried out by the tenants between July 1, 2019, the date of start of the experiment, and June 30, 2024, thanks to the supervision of rents. A device that has enabled Reduce rent by 4.4% On average over the same period, on their side, the cities of Lille, Lyon, Villeurbanne, Bordeaux and Montpellier argue. Not convinced, the new opposition party to the mayor Anne Hidalgo, Union Capital, composed of elected LR and Horizons, submitted to the Paris Council on June 5 a wish to remove the supervision of the rents.

“The management of rents is a false good idea because they continue to represent more than a third of the expenses of Parisian tenants And he aggravates the shortage of housing for rent » By discouraging rental investment, argued Paul Hatte, adviser to the 17th arrondissement and member of Capital Union. But the wish of his group was not adopted by the Paris Council, mainly on the left.

Submission of a bill to perpetuate the management of rents

These are still leftist parliamentarians who filed this Thursday, June 12, in the National Assembly and in the Senate, a bill to perpetuate the management of rentsthat any city that wishes could experiment without any deadline. “Deleting the management of rents in a city like Paris, it would be criminal, it would amount to organizing an explosion of rents in the capital”denounces the Parisian communist senator Ian Brossat.

The deputy of Paris Danielle Simonnet, member of the environmental and social group at the Assembly, does not despair that the government is taking hold of this bill. Otherwise, it could be registered in the parliamentary niche one of the left -wing groups, in the Assembly or in the Senate, or for a transpartisan week in the Assembly, but the next will only take place.