2023-12-21 10:45:26
Margaux Fodéré // Photo credits: Riccardo Milani / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP
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11:52 a.m., December 21, 2023
Today, 60% of pre-war housing is rated E, F or G. However, some of these properties are not energy sieves. For the Chamber of Real Estate Diagnosticians of the FNAIM, it is necessary to correct the DPE of old buildings, as for small areas.
In a little over a year, on January 1, 2025, no G-rated housing will be able to be rented… A date which gives a lot of trouble to owners, forced to launch major energy renovation works to raise their DPE. However, certain properties sometimes receive a DPE that is worse than reality: there are small areas, as Europe 1 explained to you a few weeks ago. But also pre-war buildings, according to the Chamber of real estate assessors of the FNAIM (National Real Estate Federation). And the phenomenon is far from being anecdotal.
A third of the real estate stock was built before 1948
Buildings built before 1948 represent a third of the real estate stock. And among these accommodations, 60% are rated E, F or G. In other words, very often, they are considered energy sieves. But these rankings do not always correspond to reality, according to Yannick Ainouche, president of the Chamber of Real Estate Diagnostics at FNAIM. “It can be a mistake to believe that an old property can consume energy. As proof, we have all been in a house in the countryside in the middle of summer and said ‘Hey, it’s cool in this house’. This proves that there are intrinsic qualities of properties built before 1948 which must be taken into account by the DPE. We might improve the letter of the DPE by at least one letter,” declared Yannick Ainouche.
“We need a sincere DPE”
A letter break is perhaps not much and yet: it would allow certain accommodations to escape the ban schedule set by the government. And this would also avoid disappointment for the French who are embarking on major renovation work to raise their DPE, with ultimately little gain in the end, explains Jean-Christophe Repon, the president of CAPEB, the Confederation of Crafts. and Small Building Companies: “We need a sincere DPE so that we do not have poor energy performance and so that the individual tells us: but at the end it is useless what I did since I didn’t make any money on my bill.” According to information from Europe 1, during a meeting at the end of November, the diagnosticians and the Ministry of Housing discussed this subject of DPE for old buildings.
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