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.
You Cannot Serve Notice to Repair a Flat You Knew Was Indecent: France’s Top Court, 4 June 2026
France's top court just closed a landlord trap: if you knew a flat was substandard when you let it, you cannot serve notice to evict the tenant and do the upgrade works. Civ. 3e, 4 June 2026, n 24-16.993.
Forced Works Forever, Damages Capped at Three Years: France’s Top Court on Indecent Rentals
France's top court confirms the double exposure on indecent rentals: tenants can force the works for as long as the breach lasts, while damages reach back exactly three years. What every foreign landlord should take from Civ. 3e, 4 June 2026.
SCI or Your Own Name? The Decision Guide to Holding French Property
SCI or your own name? The 2026 decision guide for foreign buyers of French property: what an SCI really changes when you buy, hold, sell and pass it on - and the five questions that settle it.
Leave a French Property to Rot and the Town Can Take It: the Constitutional Court Just Confirmed It
Own a French property and let it stand empty and crumbling? A commune can expropriate it on a fast-track procedure - and on 22 May 2026 the Conseil constitutionnel confirmed that procedure is constitutional.
A Small Debt, a Whole Home: France Tightens the Rules on Disproportionate Property Seizure (Cour de cassation, 21 May 2026)
Can a creditor force-sell your French home over a debt that is small next to its value? On 21 May 2026 the Cour de cassation reset how judges must answer - and it cuts both ways.