Your Holiday-Let Guest Won’t Leave? France’s Préfet Can Now Evict Them in Days, but the Squatter Penalty Was Struck Out
Since 20 August 2026 a guest who stays on after a French holiday-let booking ends can be removed by the préfet in days, without a court. The Conseil constitutionnel kept the eviction and struck out the squatter penalties. What the law says, how the procedure runs, and why the phenomenon it targets barely exists.
Paris Rent Control Is Losing Its Grip: 46% of Listings Now Breach the Cap, Eleven Weeks Before It Expires
Nearly half of Paris rental listings now sit above the legal ceiling, up from 31 percent a year ago, with the cap due to lapse on 24 November unless the Senate acts on 21 October. What the 2026 barometer measured, who is overshooting, and what a foreign landlord should do before relisting.
Ma Prime Logement Décent: the French Grant That Pays up to 90% of a Wreck’s Repairs, and Who Actually Gets It
France’s Anah pays 60 to 90 percent of heavy works on a degraded home, up to €70,000, for modest households who live in it. Who qualifies (residents, not holiday-home owners), the five ways a house qualifies, the strings, the sister aid for landlords with no income test, and how to apply in the right order.
Made in Europe or No Bonus: France Rewrites the Heat-Pump Grant Rules (1 September 2026)
From 1 September 2026 the coup de pouce chauffage pays for a heat pump only if the model is on a State-approved, European-assembled list. What changed, who still qualifies (second homes do not get the bonus), the solar twist, and the date that decides everything.
Brussels Picks a Side: the EU Law Coming for Europe’s Holiday Rentals
The EU is preparing an Affordable Housing Act that backs city crackdowns on short-term lets. France is already ahead, and the one reliable legal challenge is closing. What owners should do.
Signed and Published: France’s DPE Rewrite Will Erase 300,000 Passoires in January
The arrêté of 19 August 2026 is in the Journal officiel: the DPE electricity coefficient falls to 1.7 on 1 January 2027, and around 300,000 homes will shed passoire status without a single work being done.