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.
Guarantor for a Student in France: What a Parent Abroad Signs
Your child has a place in Paris or Lyon and the agent wants your signature on an acte de cautionnement by Friday. What you are guaranteeing, what an agency may and may not ask a parent abroad for, the free State guarantee that can replace you, and the legal ceilings on deposit and fees, from the finance ministry's student guide and the texts behind it.
LMNP in 2026: Still a Tax Break, Now on Borrowed Time
France has not touched the depreciation that makes furnished letting tax-free, but the Senate in June and the Assemblée in July have both put it on the table before the 2027 budget. What has already changed, what a cap would cost on a €300,000 flat, and what a foreign owner should do now.
A Flat for as Long as You Keep the Job: France’s New Housing Law for Public-Service Workers
Loi 2026-553 ties social housing to the job that justified it, hands public employers half the flats built on land they sell at a discount, and lets town halls override the local plan to build for nurses, police and transport staff. Nothing in it touches a private lease. Here is what it changes for the buildings around you.
Who Pays the Copropriété Charges in the Year You Sell?
French law does not split copropriété charges by days when a flat changes hands. The owner on the due date pays the whole call, the owner on the accounts-approval date takes the whole adjustment, and the works fund is never refunded. What each rule means for a foreign seller or buyer.
The Relance Logement Bill, Article by Article: What the Senate Passed and What the Assemblée Still Has to Decide
The Senate has rewritten the Relance Logement bill and the Assemblée nationale takes it up this autumn. All ten articles explained: the works-contract reprieve for F and G homes, summer comfort in copropriété votes, planning derogation zones, the loosened Jeanbrun, the island second-home surcharge, and what each one means for a foreign owner.