Owner lessor From a studio to Lyon, you are examining the very many students of students who would be Too happy to rent it At the start of the school year, your previous tenant who left. The opportunity, you think, to increase the rent a little. Think again, you don’t have the right! Posted in the Official Journal this Thursday, July 17, a decree renewed, for one year, From August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026the provisions of a 2017 decree, “Relating to the evolution of certain rents as part of a new rental or a renewal of lease”.
According to this 2017 decree, “When a vacant accommodation is the subject of a new rental, the rent of the new rental contract cannot exceed the last rent applied to the previous tenant ». This provision applies to empty or furnished rented accommodation and as a main residence, located in stretch areawhere the demand for housing is much higher than the supply. Which is the case with the city of Lyon.
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A ban not to confuse with the supervision of rents
The capital of Gaul is one of some 1,000 “Urbanization zones” of Over 50,000 inhabitants Or “There is a marked imbalance between supply and demand for housing, resulting in serious difficulties in accessing housing across the entire residential park”, We read in the decree. It therefore falls under this regulatory text, renewed each summer for a period of 12 months. However, there are some exceptions to this rule. Housing subject to a first rental are not concerned, any more than property unoccupied by a tenant for more than 18 months. In addition, the rent of the new tenant can be increased if it has not been revised in the last 12 months, or if the owner has produced improvement work Since the departure of the former tenant, or if the rent has been undervalued in relation to the average market rate.
This prohibition to increase rent in the event of a change of tenant or lease renewal in tense areas should not be confused with theRent supervisionthat these same areas have the right to experience since 2019, and until 2026. In the cities that experience it, rent per square meter cannot exceed a certain ceiling fixed by prefectural decree.
