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.
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.
When the Architecte des Bâtiments de France Blocks Your Insulation
Nearly a third of French homes sit inside a heritage perimeter where one official can veto your insulation. What the architecte des bâtiments de France can refuse, how to appeal, and why a refusal does not make an F-rated flat lettable again.
The Commission Départementale de Conciliation, Explained
A tenant or landlord can bring the other before a free, State-run conciliation body long before any court is involved. What it can examine, whether its findings bind anyone, and why not turning up is the worst move available.
No Attestation, No Lease: the One-Month Insurance Rule That Can End a French Tenancy
A Montpellier court has evicted a tenant not for unpaid rent but for failing to hand over an insurance certificate. Why the judge had no discretion, the one-month clock behind the ruling, and the two levers every French landlord should understand.
Six Weeks, Not Two Months: France Rewrites the Unpaid-Rent Clause in Every New Lease
From 1 October 2026 every new French lease gives a non-paying tenant six weeks, not two months, to clear the debt after a commandement de payer. What the new contrat type changes, which clock governs your existing lease, and the procedure that actually gets a property back.