2024-07-08 04:00:05
Company fees are very expensive. This is the refrain we often hear from individuals. These costs, which are borne by buyers in many cases, weigh on average 5% of the sale price, or more than 12,000 euros for a house that costs 250,000 euros. Once it’s not a trend, these are tenant who are likely to grind their teeth. THE home sales professionals is in fact demanding an increase in them money which, according to them, has not increased in 10 years, for house rents.
However, the law provides that roofs are “revise» every year on January 1, based on the difference in the Rent Reference Index (article 2 of the law of August 1, 2014), by ministerial order. A simple word that changes everything: nothing is necessary for the government to change them. Until the law changes, real estate professionals will find themselves facing a wall. To make ourselves heard, the National Real Estate Federation (Fnaim), the Union of Real Estate Unions and the National Union of Real Estate Professionals sent a complaint to the Council of State, we learned. Le Figaro, confirming information from BFM TV. “We ask that our work, which is in trouble, is better noticed by the government and has more visibility. I contacted several Housing Ministers about this, I never got a response», opposed Loïc Cantin, President of Fnaim.
13.75% increase
As provided by law, rent ceilings are set between 8 and 12 euros per m², depending on the city where the residence is located and its rent tension. To this is added 3 euros per m² for the production of the product. If the real estate professionals win their case, the company’s prices could skyrocket. They are asking for an increase in their prices of 13.75% to compensate for the absence of increases for ten years.
In Paris (a very tense area), where the typical prices are 15 (12+3) euros per m², agency fees will rise from about 750 to 853 euros for a residence of 50 m² ( the central area of the house). France, Editor’s Note). That’s a saving of over 100 euros! In Lyon (an anxious area), the ceiling is currently set at 13 (10+3) euros per m². The price will be a bit higher: +89 euros (from 650 to 739 euros) for the same 50 m² residence. Finally, in Reims (without the troubled areas) where prices cannot exceed 11 euros (8+3) per m², tenants should pay around 626 euros instead of 550 euros, an increase of 76 euros.
Although aware of the problems of tenants, Fnaim also highlights the problems of real estate companies. Some 1,400 bankruptcies are to be feared in 2024, according to the Federal. Not heard from since July 2009, according to the company Altares. In three years, the number of bankruptcies has more than quadrupled.
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