Real estate: the idea of a tax on poorly ecological housing resurfaces
At the end of an interview published this morning by Les Echos in which Jean-Louis Borloo welcomes the success of the new zero-rate eco-loan, the Minister of Ecology evokes the possible creation of a tax applied to the purchase of poorly ecological housing.
More than an electoral asset, more than a working track, sustainable development appears today as "an essential element for ending a massive and structuring crisis for the whole of society". According to Jean-Louis Borloo, keeping the commitments of the Grenelle Environment Forum could indeed create more than 600.000 jobs between 2009 and 2020 (530.000 by 2011).
If we can only welcome such an announcement, the issue of training building professionals to bring the building stock up to standard and that of funding for the latter are still being debated. On this last point, the Minister welcomed the support won by the recent zero-rate eco-loan. "The success is amazing and even goes beyond our forecasts," he said, adding that since April 1, 2009, partner banks have already distributed some 10.000 eco-loans of this type. "I think we are going to go faster than expected, since we had counted on 100.000 loans over the first twelve months!" "
Asked about certain measures on which the Grenelle of the environment has passed, Jean-Louis Borloo reaffirms his positioning favorable to the creation of a possible tax associated with the purchase of a property not conforming to the requirements of the Grenelle. "I keep in mind a measure that had been shifted at the request of the building profession". Not to mention the budgetary problems that this would imply for homeowners, the lack of professionals "trained and able to meet demand" had in effect ousted from the discussions the obligation to thermally renovate a home before it was put up for sale.
So the idea is resurfacing today: “I think it's something that will have to be taken sooner or later. I had argued at the time for a “bonus-malus mutation” with exemption from duties [of transfer] in the event of very good thermal efficiency and a heavy increase for the most misclassified. It is a cartridge that I keep in mind, "concluded the Minister of Ecology.
The transfer taxes, that is to say the tax that the purchaser of a house pays to the tax authorities in order to finalize the transfer of property, now amount to 5,09% of the price d purchase of the property. Opting for ecologically and thermally efficient accommodation could therefore allow total or partial exemption from these transfer taxes.
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It remains to be seen, these are precisely the "thermal conditions of Grenelle" because I think that 95% of housing in France today does not meet strict standards (RT2005 or more) ... And again I am "generous" with the 5% ...
In any case it does not already please the federation of real estate agents:
The Federation draws attention to three points: first of all: “transfer rights being borne by the purchaser, this measure would have no incentive character for sellers; it would, moreover, be inflationary: sellers would not fail to raise their selling prices in the case of energy-efficient housing; finally, in the case of poorly classified housing, buyers would be forced to pay increased transfer taxes and would then see their financial capacity reduced by an amount that they could no longer spend on their renovation ”.
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"Funny" all the same that real estate developers are worried about the rise in real estate prices when they are the main ones responsible for the outrageous speculation which has been taking place since the beginning of the 2000s in this area ...
Are they trying to take us for hams?
