Your Tenant Is the Neighbours’ Problem, Which Makes It Yours: What a Landlord Abroad Must Do When the Complaint Arrives
When a tenant disturbs the neighbours, French law holds the owner answerable and expects a precise sequence: evidence, a formal notice, a free conciliation, then termination or non-renewal. The steps, the 1996 ruling that your letters do not shield you, the 2025 law that lets the préfet force your hand, and why the lease’s termination clause only bites after a court has already ruled.
Selling a French Shop to Your Own Tenant? The Agent’s Fee Is Not the Tenant’s Problem
A commercial tenant who buys the premises under its statutory right of first refusal owes no estate agent's fee, whatever the lease or the offer says, and can claim back what it paid, the Cour de cassation held on 1 October 2026. What the right is, what changed on 28 May 2026, and what to put in the agent's mandate before you sell.
The 1 October Lease Checklist: What a Compliant French Rental Contract Must Contain (2026)
From 1 October 2026 every new or formally renewed French lease must follow the rewritten template. Here is what a compliant contract contains, which leases are caught, the one omission that voids the document, and a printable one-page checklist.
Thank Your Syndic for Good: What a Syndicat Coopératif Is, and What the Cour de cassation Just Let You Outsource (2026 Ruling)
A small French building can run itself through a syndicat coopératif and buy in help to do it. The Cour de cassation ruling of 17 September 2026 on Matera says where help ends and the licence begins, and what that means for an owner abroad.
One Owner’s Roof, Everyone’s Liability: the Syndicat Pays for the Leak Whatever the Règlement Says (2026 Ruling)
A roof or terrace held en jouissance privative is yours to maintain if the règlement says so, but the Cour de cassation ruled on 17 September 2026 that the syndicat still pays whoever the leak damages, then claims it back from you. What that means for the owner above and the owner or tenant below.
Buying Off-Plan in France: the VEFA, and Why the Mud Is Already Yours
How a French off-plan purchase (VEFA) actually works for a foreign buyer: the 5% deposit, the 35/70/95 payment grid, the completion guarantee, delivery day and the thirteen-month clock, with the case law and the tax layer.