Thermal strainers: “the climate law is starting to do its job”, says SeLoger

“The climate law is starting to do its job,” rejoiced Thomas Lefebvre, scientific director of the real estate advertising site, during a press conference. “Thanks to this law, an ecological dimension is becoming part of French housing standards.”

Promulgated in the summer of 2021, the climate law plans to gradually prohibit owners of energy-intensive housing, nicknamed “thermal sieves”, from renting their properties, to encourage them to undertake renovation work.

The ban has applied since January 1, 2023 to housing classified G+ in the energy performance diagnosis (DPE), the lowest rating, and will extend to housing classified G in 2025, before F in 2028 and E in 2034 .

If the sale of thermal strainers accelerated during the implementation of the law, the dynamic is now stalling, underlines SeLoger.

Since January 1, 2023, the number of listings for properties F and G has fallen by 11,8%, but not those for properties A, B, C and D (0%) and E (+1%).

This decrease is explained in particular by the renovation of the real estate stock, since 32% of the owners questioned say they have carried out work in 2023, allowing one property in five to move out of categories F and G.

The changing regulatory context and the state of the current market, with falling prices, also explain the reluctance of some sellers.

Another consequence of the climate law, almost a quarter (22,8%) of thermal strainers are no longer available for rental, their share of the rental market falling from 13,5% in 2021 to 10,5% in 2024 .

This decrease is explained by the work carried out by a quarter of landlord owners but also by the choice, for a third of landlords having sold their property in 2023, to part with it due to a poor DPE and the wish not to not carry out the work.

The survey is based on an analysis of 7 million real estate advertisements published on the site between January 1, 2021 and March 1, 2024 as well as an OpinionWay study carried out among 5.200 French people interviewed from January 10 to 24, 2024.

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