Tag: Case law
Bought an Underperforming French Tax-Scheme Property? The Clock to Sue Your Adviser Starts Later Than You Think (2026 Ruling)
Bought a French tax-shelter property that underdelivered? A June 2026 Cassation ruling resets when the five-year clock to sue the adviser starts - later than you might think.
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.
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.
Going Around the French Estate Agent: When Foreign Buyers Owe the Commission Anyway (Civ. 3e, 7 May 2026)
A 7 May 2026 Cour de cassation ruling holds the buyer personally liable for €150,000 of damages — the full agent commission — when knowledge of the agent's right to fee, plus a behaviour pattern of evasion, evidences manœuvres frauduleuses under articles 1200 and 1240 of the Code civil.