When one intends to embark on rental investment, one often favors small areas, which are not only more accessible in terms of purchase budget and repayment period, but also easier to rent.
However, students represent candidates for accommodation that are often easy to manage and rather reassuring.
Rather than a classic rental contract, it is then possible to offer them variants designed specifically for their situation.
1 - The furnished student lease
If you are renting a studio or a one-bedroom apartment, the best thing to do is to furnish it.
Indeed, students generally have few means to devote to moving in, a fortiori for accommodation which they may leave in the next one or two years if their course or entry into professional life takes them elsewhere. .
As soon as you provide the essential equipment on a daily basis, you can then offer a furnished lease, which will allow you in passing to benefit from advantageous taxation as a non-professional furnished rental company (LMNP).
Bed and bedding, dining table and seats, light fixtures, storage shelves, hotplates, oven or microwave, refrigerator or freezer but also sufficient crockery and kitchen utensils, as well as household maintenance equipment must therefore be be present.
However, you are free to furnish the premises more, making sure to choose a neutral and modern style that will not put off the candidates.
While the lease for a classic furnished accommodation is in principle for one year with tacit renewal, the variant reserved for students offers a non-renewable 9-month rental.
In this way, the young tenant will not have to pay the rent unnecessarily if he decides to leave the premises at the end of the academic year, while the landlord can re-let in the summer.
Similarly, no notice of departure needs to be given to leave when the contract expires.
On the other hand, to keep the dwelling, it will be necessary to sign a new lease.
2 - The mobility lease
Since the Élan law of 2018, another contract has been specifically designed for students: the mobility lease.
Here again, this is housing equipped in the same conditions as conventional furnished accommodation.
On the other hand, to claim it, the tenant must be able to justify registration in a higher education establishment or professional training, an apprenticeship contract, an internship or civic service.
People on professional transfer or on temporary assignments are also accepted.
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The mobility lease makes it possible to conclude the contract for a period of 1 to 10 months, again non-renewable but also non-renewable.
To stay longer in the premises, it will indeed be necessary to go through a classic furnished lease.
The main interest for the tenant then lies in the fact that the legislation here prohibits any security deposit.
However, nothing prevents the lessor from requesting the presence of a deposit as a safety net in the event of unpaid rent.
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A mixed success
Furnished accommodation has been popular for several years.
According to a study by Fnaim, the national real estate federation, published in May 2022, the proportion of furnished rentals has increased significantly in ten years and in particular in large cities such as Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, Marseille or Toulouse again.
“This share rose from 14.2% in 2006 to 24.8% in 2018 in Paris, where the proportion of furnished apartments is twice the national average”
, notes the Economic Housing Laboratory of the federation.
On the other hand, the success of the mobility lease is currently uncertain.
A review of the Élan law drawn up in February 2022 by the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly thus qualifies this contract as a
"device of dubious utility"
, while noting that there is no data on its implementation. implemented to date.
At the scale of Paris, in any case, demand seems to be there since the Lodgis agency announces that it has signed 38.2% of mobility leases out of all rentals in the first quarter of 2022.
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