“We are in front of A huge question of housing ”recognized Prime Minister François Bayrou, this Monday, September 8, in his declaration of general policy pronounced before The deputies refuse to vote for him their confidenceprovoking his fall. A “Huge question” notably “For Young peoplestudents “many of which still have not found a rental One week from the start of the academic year.
The initial finance bill for 2026 drawn up by François Bayrou precisely includes an article creating a real Private lessor tax statusin order to relaunch therental investmentbarely under the effect of the management of rents, the gradual prohibition on the rental of thermal colanders and the abolition of the Pinel tax advantage. In broad outline, this status of the private lessor would allow, for any new rental investment, to deduct from its rents 5% of the value of the property each year if it is new, and 4% in the case of an old housing.
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A status of the lessor claimed for 10 years
Claimed for ten years By owners’ associations, real estate agents, promoters, this measure was finally about to see the light of day, on January 1, 2026, carried on the baptismal font by the Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, and by François Bayrou. But “The finance bill for 2026, at the origin of the Prime Minister’s political discredit, will fall with him and another copy will be written by his successorrecently underlined Henry Buzy-Cazaux, president-founder of the Institute of Management of Real Estate Services, in a forum published on Capital. Consequently, real estate amortization could pay the cost of revisiting the text ”. Especially since the creation of a tax advantage is not the priority of Bercy, in a context of degraded public finances.
A “Land fate” to which the project to create the status of the private lessor could perhaps escape if “Professional housing organizations are ensured with All political groups that they will not sacrifice it in the name of one does not know what political consideration, far from the concern of abounding the rental park to house French households ”estimates Henry Buzy-Cazaux.
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The ball in the camp of parliamentarians
An everything except abundant rental fleet at present. In the second quarter, sales of new housing to private investors still plunged 50%in the wake of the disappearance of Pinel on January 1. “Faced withcollapse of rental investmentthe status of the private lessor is the only structuring and immediately activated response ”insists Pascal Boulanger, president of the Federation of Real Estate Promoters (FPI).
For him, “he is urgent that parliament saves the status of the private lessorbecause without investors, there will be no more accommodation, and no recovery of the French economy will be possible ”, The lack of housing preventing companies from recruiting in regions, which are with high employment potential. And the boss of the FPI to insist, in “Solemnly calling for the collective responsibility of parliamentarians: the status of the private lessor must be saved and inscribed without delay in the finance law.” Concretely, if the successor of François Bayrou in Matignon does not integrate the creation of a status of the private lessor in the finance bill (PLF) for 2026, parliamentarians – deputies or senators would have to do so, in Taking up amendments to the PLF.
