Real Estate

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.

The Foreign Owner’s Guide to the French Copropriété AGM (Assemblée Générale)

Convocation deadlines, proxies, postal votes, the four majorities and the procès-verbal: how the French copropriété AGM really works for foreign owners.

Taxe Foncière Discounts: Which Ones Can You Actually Claim?

France offers six taxe foncière reliefs, from a €100 automatic discount to a cap that stops the bill exceeding half your income. Which ones a non-resident owner can actually claim, with the 2026 thresholds and deadlines.

Is It Worth Contesting Your Taxe Foncière? A Decision Guide for Foreign Owners

Your taxe foncière keeps climbing, but the rate is not the part you can fight. How to check the cadastral base behind your bill for free, the five grounds that actually win, the deadlines, and when a réclamation is genuinely worth your time.

The Jeanbrun Housing Bill (Relance Logement): What It Would Mean for Foreign Owners of French Property

France's Relance Logement bill would sweeten the Jeanbrun tax break and hand F and G homes a renovation-for-reprieve deal, but the Conseil d'Etat has filled the margins with warnings. Here is what foreign owners need to know.

LMNP Tax Calculator: Micro-BIC vs Régime Réel Break-Even (2026)

A free calculator that shows whether micro-BIC or régime réel leaves you with less taxable income on your French furnished rental, built on the verified 2026 allowances.

Bought an Underperforming French Tax-Scheme Property? The Clock to Sue Your Adviser Starts Later Than You Think (2026 Ruling)

Bought a French tax-shelter property that underdelivered? A June 2026 Cassation ruling resets when the five-year clock to sue the adviser starts - later than you might think.

How to Raise the Rent on a French Property: A Landlord’s Guide to Revising a Residential Rent

A landlord's guide to the three legal routes for raising a French residential rent: the annual IRL revision, increases after improvement works, and re-pricing an under-valued rent at renewal.

Loc’Avantages 2026: a 15% to 65% Tax Cut for Renting Below Market (and the Catch for Non-Residents)

Loc'Avantages gives French landlords a 15% to 65% income-tax reduction for letting below market. Who qualifies, how much it is worth, and the residence catch for non-resident owners.

Taxe d’Habitation on a French Second Home: the 2026 Guide (and the 60% Surcharge)

France scrapped the taxe d'habitation on main homes but kept it on second homes - and 1,628 communes now pile on a surcharge of up to 60%. What foreign owners actually pay in 2026, and how to lighten it.