2023-10-14 11:00:05
On Longchamp beach, in Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine), in 2021. MATAREZO/ANDIA.FR
Closed shutters and deserted beaches… After the summer hustle and bustle, dead calm has returned to Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine), an upscale seaside resort on the Emerald Coast. In this municipality where INSEE counts two thousand five hundred inhabitants, 59.7% of housing is second homes. “But it’s not the increase in housing tax that will make me leave,” says Claude, a silver-haired retiree.
The Ile-de-France region fell under the spell of the lunar sea air twenty years ago. His housing tax, as a secondary resident, was until now set at 10.59% of the net rental value of his home. It will now amount to 15.36%, or around 180 euros more per year on your bill. The fruit of an increase voted in September by the municipal council, after a ministerial decree allowed more than two thousand new municipalities – including one hundred and fifty-six in Brittany – to raise it.
The text, published on August 26, concerns areas that “ are faced with a marked imbalance between supply and demand for housing, leading to serious difficulties in accessing housing throughout the existing residential stock.” Objective: for second homes to return to the long-term rental market. But, in the coastal towns, where 65% of Breton second homes are concentrated, few really believe in this possibility.
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Yohan Louvel, elegant real estate agency manager in Saint-Lunaire, would almost laugh: “It’s not a few hundred euros of taxes on houses worth 500,000 to 1 million euros that will change the situation. » Vincent Bouche, deputy for sustainable development of the municipality, recognizes this : “This is not what will increase our potential for permanent housing. »
“Do not make people cough in the cottages”
However, the municipality is banking on 300,000 euros in additional revenue to rehabilitate its housing for seasonal workers. This increase still sparked a debate in the municipal council, with a minority regretting that we “splits the population”, according to the report published by West France, between “real” residents and owners of second homes. “These are still cities that function thanks to us,” deplores Joséphine de Breuil, thirty-something who acquired a second home in 2021 in Saint-Lunaire and is hostile to this increase.
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A few kilometers further, the idea of increasing the tax on second homes has not occurred to the municipal councils. “Here, these are large family homes, they will not end up on the year-round rental market with this measure,” we explain in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, 60% of second homes on the counter. On the other side of the Frémur, in Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer (Côtes-d’Armor), the mayor, Jean-Luc Pithois, believes that it “there is no need to cough in the cottages when finances are healthy”, despite the 63.8% of vacation residences in its municipality.
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