Thermal strainers G prohibited from renting: “False DPE, there are hundreds of them!”

Housing rated G on the energy performance diagnosis can no longer be the subject of a new lease contract, or a renewal, since January 1, 2025. Due to a lack of money to carry out an energy renovation, some landlords have no choice but to display fake DPEs on their ads.

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Being forced to sell the house inherited from his mother because it is now “indecent” in terms of energy. This is the fate of a young man who does not have the means to renovate this house in Cap Ferret, which remains in its original state from the 1940s and is rated G on the energy performance diagnosis (DPE). A note which, under the Climate and Resilience Law, has prohibited this thermal sieve from being re-let since January 1, 2025 after the recent departure of the previous tenants.

The young man had quotes made to estimate the amount of energy renovation work necessary to improve the DPE score. It would cost him…100,000 euros. Not having this sum and not having the means to borrow it, he must resolve to sell this rental investment which he would have happily kept to ensure additional income. He has one chance in his misfortune, that of being the sole decision-maker. But there are successions with “undivided property between brothers who agree to carry out an energy renovation while their sister does not want to”which further complicates the situation for owners of G housing intended for rental, testifies Charles Marinakis, president of the Century 21 France real estate agency network, during a press conference this Monday, January 6.

Fake DPEs by the hundreds

“People who have neither the means nor the desire to carry out work, such as owners aged over 60 who will have difficulty expecting a return on investment, have no choice but to sell their assets G“, he regrets. For several months, a number of landlord clients of Century 21’s rental management services have been pushing the doors of agencies to “ask ourselves “what do I do with my accommodation G?””relates the manager. Is it possible to defy the ban on rental of these accommodations by betting that, too happy to have succeeded in finding accommodation, the tenants of a property G will not dare take their lessor to court to demand him work or a reduction in rent?

“As professionals we are responsible, there is no way we would recommend this. We can only advise doing energy renovation work or selling”replies Charles Marinakis to Capitalon the sidelines of the press conference. And what about fake ECDgiving a D rating to accommodation that actually deserves no more than G? “There are hundreds of fake DPEs… You can find them for 10 euros on the web…”sighs Charles Marinakis. While recognizing that “the law is so restrictive that people have no choice but to circumvent it”.

Wait for a possible relaxation of the rental ban

A law that he describes as“heresy because you do not have the right to rent a G energy sieve but, if you are the owner-occupier, then you have the right to freeze yourself in it!” Still castigating “a law drawn up by technocrats»Charles Marinakis, he, “tells real life” of housing owners G. Of which “some have chosen to leave them empty while awaiting a possible relaxation of the law” for property located in co-ownership, via the bill from deputies Bastien Marchive and Inaki Echaniz, which was to be examined by the National Assembly in December. The Barnier government’s censorship postponed this examination to a “later” date.