Aurélien Fleurot // Photo credit: Mathieu Thomasset / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 11:34 am, June 06, 2023

This is the cold shower for professionals in the real estate sector. After the announcements of Elisabeth Borne late Monday afternoon on the housing component of the National Council of the Refoundation, the actors of the sector admit to disappointment and call on the government to rectify the shot by the beginning of the school year.

Extension of the zero-interest loan, the end of the Pinel device or the purchase of housing from developers... Faced with the housing crisis and the concern of the sector, Elisabeth Borne presented measures to redress the situation. However, at the end of the National Council of the refoundation dedicated to housing Monday evening, the professionals admit to being unconvinced.

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Measures not "up to the task"

"These are measures that are not up to the situation," Loïc Cantin, president of the National Federation of Real Estate, Fnaim, told Europe 1. It must be said that after seven months of work within the National Council of the Refoundation, the frustrations are immense. "These are measures that will continue to plunge France and other countries into a serious housing crisis, the likes of which it has not experienced for several decades," he said. The latter regrets the end of the Pinel device, which could have lasted in another form.

Another disappointment for professionals in the sector, on the evolution of the taxation of furnished tourist accommodation, such as Airbnb. For Christophe Robert, president of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation and co-facilitator of this seminar, it could go much faster.

"This is not acceptable"

"There is no need to redo a mission, we know what to do. Eliminate the tax loophole, impose the same constraints in terms of renovation, etc. Because you know that today year-round housing can go to platforms, because there are not the same constraints. That's not acceptable," he said.

This seminar is not conclusive, promised the government. But that wasn't enough to calm the anger. "See you in September. Faced with the emergency, the executive will be forced this time to react, "slips a participant before leaving.