“Two rooms for rent in Boulogne-Billancourt, 1,000 euros per month. Management fees of the tenant : 382.65 euros, including 76.53 euros for the inventory ”. The fees mentioned in this announcement are those due to the real estate agent under the organization of visits, the constitution of the rental file, the drafting of the lease and the establishment of the inventory. They share between the owner and the tenant but, while the share due by the first is freely fixed by the real estate agencies, the one whose second must pay is capped.
Good news for real estate agents, unpleasant surprises for tenants, These ceilings will increase. Published this Thursday, July 24, a decree of the Minister of Housing provides that the fees of fees due by the tenants will be revised on January 1, 2026, on the basis of the variation between the reference index of rents (IRL) of the third quarter 2024 and that of the third quarter 2025. Provided that this variation is “Positive”.
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As a reminder, these fee ceilings amount to 12 euros per square meter of living space in a very tense area, where the housing supply is much lower than demand, at 10 euros per square meter in a tense zone and 8 euros on the rest of the territory. Added to this is a ceiling of 3 euros per square meter of living space under the realization of the inventory, regardless of the rental tension of the geographic area. Depending on the areas, The total ceilings of rental fees are therefore 11, 13 or 15 euros per square meter of living space.
Their revaluation was impatiently awaited by real estate agents because these ceilings have not been revised since their fixation, … ten years ago. The decree of August 1, 2014, which had set them, provided for however that they were revisable each year, via a ministerial decree. But no Minister of Housing did it, not being obliged, as confirmed by a decision of State Council May 7. Two weeks later, during a meeting on the energy renovation of the housing, the current Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, declared himself, however “Favorable to a revaluation of rental fees”underlined the National Union of Real Estate Professionals (SNPI), in a recent press release.
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What revaluation of rental fees after 2026?
It will therefore be done on January 1, 2026. But inflation having slowed heavily since 2024, the IRL, indexed to the evolution of consumer prices, increased by only 1.04% in the second quarter of 2025, over one year. IRL in the third quarter of 2025 will not be known until mid-October but “”We may not have 1%” increase over 12 months, admits to Capital Danielle Dubrac, President of the United, who brings property administrators.
And what about the revaluation of the fee ceilings after 2026? “We must go further, by changing the law to Make the annual revision automatically fees “recognizes Danielle Dubrac. While greeting “A strong signal from the ministry” accommodation. President of the SNPI, Alain Duffoux “Thanks” he too the minister “For his listening and his answer”. He is certainly said “A little annoyed that it is only a One Shot decree”valid for a year, but should that this solution was “The simplest”.
