Nice, Paris and Anglet, then, more recently, Lyon and Bordeaux, more and more agglomerations decide to introduce a special tax on second homes.
The main objective of this measure is to put the goods back on a very tense real estate market, but also to find village life in the small towns.
If you own a second home, be careful, the bill may be increasingly steep. Nice, Paris and Anglet, some cities choose to increase the housing tax on second homes: an increase that can reach 60. The law authorizes it for municipalities where the real estate market is tight.
In Lyon as in Bordeaux, the municipality voted a few days ago to increase the housing tax for second homes.
This increase reaches 60%.
The objective: to convince the owners to put their property back on the market.
In the capital of the Gauls, there are around 15,000 second homes, according to Audrey Henocque, deputy mayor of Lyon.
"The hope is that a certain number of second homes can be converted back to the main residence. For us, housing is above all the place where a family or a full-time person lives," he explains. she.
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Thanks to this increase, the municipality should pocket 3.3 million euros more per year.
An effort to maintain "a village life"
In Saint-Julien-de-Chedon in the Loire et Cher, a small town of 750 inhabitants, the mayor Michel Leplard hopes to free up housing and bring in families, essential to village life.
"It allows us to try to save our school," explains Michel Leplard.
"We wanted to bring back this tax fairness so that everyone makes an effort and that the municipality can continue to live well," he continues.
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Some mayors are also mobilizing for the creation of a new tax: a tax applied to vacant housing.