The Senate Just Rewrote France’s Renovation Deal – and Left Your LMNP Alone
The French Senate adopted the Relance Logement bill on 8 July 2026 - swapping the works threshold for a two-class DPE test and halving the copropriete shield to 18 months, while the landlord amortissement statute lives in the budget law, not this bill. What changes, what does not, and what September can still undo.
France’s Most Controversial Lease: the Bail Code Civil, Your Second Home, and the 2026 Crackdown
The bail Code civil is the correct lease for a French second home - and the contract Paris's mayor calls industrial-scale fraud when it dodges rent control. Where the line runs after the 2026 rulings, the DGCCRF campaign and the bill in parliament.
The Foreign Owner’s Tax Map of France: What 47 Expat Towns Charge in 2025
Official 2025 rates for the 47 French towns where foreign buyers concentrate: a 3.3x spread, the 90% club in the Dordogne, eleven towns with 60% second-home surcharges, and Paris up 50% in five years.
Anatomy of a French Tax Bill: the Avis de Taxe Foncière, Translated Line by Line
France's property-tax bill, decoded box by box on a real anonymised 2025 avis: what every line means in English, how the €1,016 total is built, what to check before paying, and how to contest it.
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.