Thermal strainers: Relief for co-owners who have voted for the work

Real estate professionals have long pointed out this difficulty: in a co-owned building, it takes at least three years between the vote on energy renovation work in the general assembly and its actual completion.

Avoiding the first ban on the transfer of thermal strainers, which will come into force from 1, is impossible under these conditions, even in buildings where the work was recently polled.^er January 2025. They will concern housing labeled G under the Energy Performance Diagnosis (DPE), before F in 2028 and E in 2034.

“Cut some slack”

The government is proposing a solution today, which would include an amendment tabled at the end of the month when the bill on degraded co-ownership comes up in the Senate. From the date of the vote, the idea is to suspend for two years this ban on the transfer of thermal strainers in condominiums where the work is voted on, Christophe Bechu indicated this Monday in an interview with “Parisian”.

Guillaume Kasbarian, the new minister for housing, added on RTL that it’s about giving “a little slack, a little flexibility, (…) time to work. This will make it possible to pass the 2025 deadline,” says Daniel Dubrac, president of the Eunice Real Estate Union. , that’s a good thing.” For that, however, we must “find practical and innovative solutions to enhance renovation” in buildings.

Loïc Cantin, president of the National Federation of Real Estate Agents (Fnaim), is more serious. He believes that the declaration is highly “political” and that the measure is “of no use”. Because, he explains, at this stage, many co-ownerships are still trying to develop their multi-year work plan (PPT) and are far from a vote on the projects to be launched.

“Sector Congestion”

Certainly, in co-ownership, you have to move in stages. “First, we have a collective DPE conducted, then we request the establishment of a PPT, based on this DPE. But today it takes eight to ten months to do PPT. We don’t have consulting firms to do that. There is an overcrowding problem in the sector,” explains Loïc Cantin.

Once a multi-year work plan is carried out, the general meeting of co-owners must still vote on it and decide whether to carry out all or part of the proposed work. Then you have to find companies to undertake them and get a quote. And finally submit the work for a vote.

“In 2028 we will still be there,” sighs the president of Fanaim, for whom the government is unaware of the realities. Like Daniel Dubrac, he asked that the energy efficiency of thermal sieves be deferred from the adoption of the PPT, rather than a vote on works.