Housing Minister in favor of adapting the energy performance diagnosis (DPE) for co-ownerships

The Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, has opened the door to an adaptation of the timetable for the energy performance diagnosis (DPE) for co-ownerships, for which "the conditions are not met", she said on Friday, October 11, to La Voix du Nord.

According to the current timetable, G-rated housing, the most energy-intensive, will no longer be able to be rented from 1 January 2025, then F housing from 2028 and finally E housing from 2034. A "trajectory" that Valérie Létard does not want to "change", she told the northern daily.

However, "the implementation of this schedule poses a real problem for co-ownerships," according to the minister. "The conditions are not met for them to be able to comply with it. We are therefore looking at how to adapt the schedule for them," she continues.

Concerning the zero-rate loan (PTZ), which the government wishes to extend throughout the country and not just to the so-called tense areas where it currently applies, the minister does not find it "absurd" that it also concerns individual houses, "outside hyper-urban areas and as long as they do not take up too much space".

The houses had initially been excluded from the system given the objectives of combating soil artificialization.

The minister also maintained that the government was "stabilising the MaPrimeRénov' system, "which was important to the players in the sector".

"It should be noted that the 2025 envelope remains at a level equal to the level of consumption observed in 2024," she argued, while the subsidy paid by the State to finance this bonus, the main public aid for the energy renovation of housing, will amount to 2,3 billion euros in 2025, compared to four billion announced for 2024, according to the draft finance bill presented on Thursday.