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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.
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LMP or LMNP When You Sell: the Year of the Sale Decides, With One Tolerance and Two Traps

Is professional furnished-letting status (LMP) judged on the year of the sale or the year before? The year of the sale, says the tax administration, with a filing tolerance for last year's status, an annualisation rule when the sale ends your letting, and a worldwide-income test for non-residents from 2026. Every rule linked to its source.
Real Estate

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.
Real Estate

The 2027 Budget Caps the LMNP Write-Off at €7,000. Here Is What I Would Do With a Furnished Flat

Article 7 of the 2027 finance bill caps the depreciation a non-professional furnished landlord can deduct at 2.5 per cent and €7,000 a year, less for holiday lets, and puts a ten-year clock on unused depreciation. What the text says, what the finance committee changed on 8 October, and what I would do now.
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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.

Brussels Picks a Side: the EU Law Coming for Europe’s Holiday Rentals

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The EU is preparing an Affordable Housing Act that backs city crackdowns on short-term lets. France is already ahead, and the one reliable legal challenge is closing. What owners should do.

Signed and Published: France’s DPE Rewrite Will Erase 300,000 Passoires in January

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The arrêté of 19 August 2026 is in the Journal officiel: the DPE electricity coefficient falls to 1.7 on 1 January 2027, and around 300,000 homes will shed passoire status without a single work being done.

The Foreign Owner’s Guide to the French Copropriété AGM (Assemblée Générale)

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Convocation deadlines, proxies, postal votes, the four majorities and the procès-verbal: how the French copropriété AGM really works for foreign owners.

Taxe Foncière Discounts: Which Ones Can You Actually Claim?

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France offers six taxe foncière reliefs, from a €100 automatic discount to a cap that stops the bill exceeding half your income. Which ones a non-resident owner can actually claim, with the 2026 thresholds and deadlines.

Is It Worth Contesting Your Taxe Foncière? A Decision Guide for Foreign Owners

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Your taxe foncière keeps climbing, but the rate is not the part you can fight. How to check the cadastral base behind your bill for free, the five grounds that actually win, the deadlines, and when a réclamation is genuinely worth your time.

How the French Taxman Decides Your Flat Is Empty: the TVLH Evidence Rules

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From January 2027 France's new vacancy tax will decide whether your home is empty on the strength of a database, your own declaration and, sometimes, a neighbour's tip-off. What fiscally vacant means, how occupation is proven, and the two defences that actually work.
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