Sorry, but what stopped the landlords/building managers from insulating the apartments in due time? I'm assuming there was a notice period given and the insulation mandate didn't spontaneously come out of nowhere.
Could it be that most landlords are just greedy rentseekers who want to have their cake and eat it too?
- in 2019 a law was passed, scheduled for being in effect starting 2023
- in 2020 they changed the way the evaluation was performed. Instead or relying on energy bills, they decided to create a formula with a tons of parameters.
- in 2021 they realized the shity formula was overestimating consumption waayyy too much, making a lot more housing improper for renting than expected (people saw their mark going from « C » to « F » or even « G »). They adjusted it.
- in 2022, the new formula is still bogus, but nothing changed
As an example, i live in the best insulated appartment i’ve ever lived in Paris (lived there for 40 years). It’s rated G (the worst), simply because it’s on the top floor.
And here we are, in 2023, with the first batch of housing being unauthorized for rental.
We now even have a word for the country they’re turning france into : Absurdistan.
I like the French. It's true there's mad amounts of process and bureaucracy everywhere and as usual, none of it works. I don't think it's really worse than in other places, c'est seulement que les Français aiment grogner plus que les autres. C'est Français ca, grogner :)
Btw, je parle bien Français alors je me demande si sa serait pas encore pire si je cherchais un appart en Anglais. Aie.
Basically, laws now mandate every flat to have good thermal isolation, otherwise you can't rent them. Which means approx 30% of the housing in Paris will be banned from the renting market in the next 3 years. It started this very year.
PS: and because we're french, the diagnostic for "energy performance" of a housing is full of boggus formula which overestimate the consumption of your flat by a factor of 3 ( at least).