Thermal sieves and the new DPE: what are the lessons to be learned one year after its implementation

Launched hastily, the DPE version 2021 experienced serious bugs. The ministry has reviewed its copy in the meantime, and the sector has worked a lot on it, setting up numerous internal processes and webinars for professionals. Having become enforceable, the new DPE is now reliable and has the capacity to give a clear image of the French housing stock. What lessons can be learned a year later?

The EX'IM group, a major player in diagnosis and control in France, has scrutinized nearly 30.000 diagnoses carried out since July 1, 2021 within its network. The results are quite telling. Because with the Climate and Resilience Law, the DPE plays a major role: it is no longer asked only to provide information on energy performance in the event of sale or rental (an obligation, today), but to say tomorrow if the owner can increase his rent, if a renovation needs to be done, or even if a dwelling can be rented.

“1 year since the new DPE saw the light of day, and after several months of readjustments, we can say today that it is well established. As we know, the deadlines of the Climate Law are a kind of compromise, between those who wanted to go much faster, and those who called for realism. To succeed in meeting the challenge of energy renovation in France, certain obstacles still need to be lifted, such as increasing aid, because the remainder to be paid for is sometimes still too high; or provide better support to households to encourage overall, more virtuous renovation, rather than one-step renovation as seen with MaPrimeRénov'. Our job as a diagnostician is therefore at the heart of the process: from the execution of the diagnostic to the support, tomorrow, we hope, of households in their renovation journey. » Says Yannick Ainouche, CEO of EX'IM; Chairman of CDI Fnaim; Director of 3F Notre Logis.

EX'IM reveals its figures: 5 lessons to be learned from the new DPE

The EX'IM network thus carried out a study on 28 DPEs sent to Ademe. All of these DPEs were carried out by 909 agencies within its network, spread across France. All these DPEs were carried out according to the new formula which came into force on July 22, 1.

One in six dwellings will not be able to increase their rent from August 2022

In our sample, 16% of rental housing is now classified as F (9,99%) and G (6,54%). As many dwellings where the rent will be frozen from August 25, 2022: according to the Climate and Resilience Law, the owner must justify a minimum energy class E, if he wishes to increase his rent from August.

1% of housing declared undecent by 2023

Long before the Climate and Resilience Law, the Energy and Climate Law of 2019 envisaged a minimum energy performance criterion for rentals. Any accommodation with a consumption greater than 450 kWh.year.m² (in final energy, this is essential) can no longer be rented. We are talking here about the worst energy sieves. In our sample, these extremely energy-intensive dwellings remain marginal and weigh barely 1%, which represents just over 100.000 dwellings on the scale of the French rental stock...

6,5% of housing will have to be renovated before 2025…

January 1, 2025, anything with a G tag will be banned from rental. Of the 28 DPEs made by EX'IM, more than 909% of housing is now classified as G. Not all of them are necessarily intended for rental, but if we consider the DPEs made in a purely rental context, we are notice all the same that 8% of housing will have to be renovated before 6,5.

…. And 16% before 2028,

Rebelote in 2028, ban on renting accommodation classified as F. One in ten accommodation on the rental market today is still concerned according to our sample. The renovation is planned to accelerate, from 2034, around the E label. We are tackling a big piece since one in four dwellings today is classified as E.

Only 3% of housing already in the nails

France wants a BBC park for 2050. Whether it is the rental park, or property occupied by their owners. The ambition is huge because today, the A and B labels, which often correspond to properties built after 2012, remain extremely marginal: less than 3,5% of the stock.