To the chagrin of real estate professionals, The Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, will not be part of the government of Sébastien Lecornu. Not because the Prime Minister did not want it: “We had confirmed that she would be called in the week to complete the government” Announced on Sunday, ensures the entourage of Valérie Létard this Monday, October 6. It is the minister herself who “Do not wish to reintegrate the government”she said in a post broadcast on her LinkedIn account on Sunday evening. “Neither in the priorities displayed, nor in the composition of the government, I do not find the signals necessary to relaunch a real housing policy, at a time when this sector is going through a deep crisis which affects both our economy and the daily life of the French“Explains Valérie Létard.
“In the current context, I would not have had the latitude needede to act usefully “continues the minister. The former Northern Senator “Therefore resumes (s) has freedom to defend, as (it has always done so, the republican, social and ecological values which animate it, both as a parliamentarian and as elected local”. Valérie Létard is not lacking in “Greet all the players in the housing with whom we have worked so much, often in difficulty, to support an essential but too long sector abandoned”. Housing actors who wanted the renewal, within the Lecornu government, of that which was Minister of Housing in the governments of Michel Barnier and then François Bayrou.
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Having become Minister of Housing, the former senator, already very invested in this sector, had won notable battles, notably against the Ministry of the Economy. Starting with the expansion of the zero rate loan (Ptz), since April 1, for the purchase of new individual houses, while it was previously reserved for the acquisition of new apartments. Valérie Létard had also obtained the extension of the PTZ, since April 1, 2025, to the whole territory when it was previously circumscribed to the tense areas, where the supply of housing is much lower than the demand. The minister had finally set up a tax exemption, for two years, family donations for the purchase of new accommodation or the renovation of an existing property.
His last fact of arms resided in the project to create a real tax status of the private lessor, claimed for ten years by owners’ associations and the housing sector, in order to relaunch rental investment. Valérie Létard had obtained from François Bayrou that an article of the finance bill for 2026 provides for the establishment of this status, which would have made it possible, for any rental investment made from December 1, 2025, to deduce each year from rental income 5% of the value of the property in the case of new housingand 4% for old renovated housing. This means that the advent of this status of the private lessor today seems more uncertain than ever.
