With the end of supervision, rents rise again

Good news for private landlords, worse for tenants: after five years of lull, rents are on the rise again. The index of revision accelerates, indeed, making a leap of 1.25%, over a year, in the second quarter of 2018, against 1.05% in the first quarter, according to the notice published by the National Institute of Statistics and economic studies (INSEE), July 12th. The recovery in inflation and activity explains this rebound, which will therefore affect all rents in the private park to be updated, but not those of the public park, frozen in 2018.

More worrying is the statement made, on July 17, by the Observatory of the rents of the Paris agglomeration (OLAP) which, in a very discreet communiqué, announces an increase of on average 2.5% of the rents of the private one in the occasion of a relocation, between two tenants. Paris is concerned (+ 2.1%), but also its small crown (+ 3%) and its large crown (+ 2.2%). "This is a clear reversal of trend remarks Geneviève Prandi, director of OLAP, because, until 2017, the new rentals were concluded at prices down compared to the old rent.

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In Paris, the average rent, for an empty apartment, now stands at 24.70 euros per square meter monthly, but much more for small areas and furnished, which alone make up a quarter of the market : "These figures are astonishing because, given the current regulations, rents should theoretically not change more than the index, except in case of work" recalls Géraud Delvolvé, general delegate of the Union of Real Estate Unions (UNIS), which represents the managers.

Less empty rentals in the year

And the rush of rents is still in its infancy, as evidenced by the survey conducted by the badociation Housing consumption living environment (CLCV): out of thousand rental ads parisiennes, auscultées in May 2018, more than 518 offer rents above the limit values ​​set by the framework of rents, against 290 in 2017. Of the average pbad is 128 euros per month, or 1 536 euros per year out, in addition, for tenants.

The ceiling of rents no longer exists in Paris or Lille since its cancellation by administrative courts in October and November 2017, confirmed by the Court of Appeal on June 26 for Paris, July 10 for Lille. The supervision will have, in Paris, lasted only 26 months, from 1 ^er August 2015 to 27 November 2017, and 9 months in Lille, from 1 ^er February to 17 October 2017. " Hardly the cancellation pronounced, donors and professionals felt pushing wings notes Jean-Yves Mano, president of the CLCV, and we ask that this management is restored because it allows real control of rents.

The future law Evolution of housing, planning and digital (Elan) provides that the intercommunalities can restore such a ceiling: "But it leaves the tenants at the mercy of the political will local elected officials specifies Mr. Mano, and the law authorizes it only in tense areas where there is only " limited prospects of multi-year production of housing ] … In other words, voluntarist cities like Lille or Grenoble will not be able to set it up.

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Another concern of the OLAP is to see shrinkage year by year the rental fleet rented empty year round: "In Paris, we lose each year a few thousand homes entrusts M ^me Prandi, presumably because of the short-term seasonal rentals of Airbnb type. In the inner suburbs, the loss is limited, but only the big crown has won rental housing, 10,000 in fifteen years. "