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Mickaël Bosredon / 20 Minutes
The new urban planning deputy at the city hall of Bordeaux, Bernard-Louis Blanc, confirms a slowdown in real estate production, the time to inventory the projects in progress.
The Federation of Real Estate Developers (FPI) agrees to improve the quality of certain programs, but warns of a risk of collapse in real estate production.
According to her, “you cannot have a housing policy without integrating demographic data”.
The term “moratorium” used during the campaign has certainly disappeared from the vocabulary of the new Bordeaux majority.
However, it has put a stop to many real estate transactions since its installation at the town hall.
“Since the election in July, there has been an inventory of ongoing operations,” confirms the president of the Federation of real estate developers in New Aquitaine, Arnaud Roussel-Provost.
When permits were not yet issued, it was asked to review certain projects in the light of ecological transition.
The course of action now is: less density, more vegetation, and operations of modest size.
This mainly targets the projects on Brazza and Bastide-Niel, which are the two emblematic development operations on the right bank.
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"We must build better, but not build less"
If the promoters' representative agrees "to support professionals in favor of ecological transition", if he recognizes that it is necessary to "review a certain number of models", "to develop prefabrication, bio-based materials and bioclimatic buildings ”, he warns of the slowdown in construction.
“We must build better, but not build less.
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The "overhaul of a number of projects will cause a delay in the production of operations" while "it has already been almost two years that we feel a decline in the production of building permits, denounces Arnaud Roussel-Provost.
In the second quarter of 2020, we recorded a collapse of 83% of the sales of new apartments in the metropolis, compared to 2019. I fear that with the refusals of permits for a few weeks, we will fall below the 5,000 housing mark. per year delivered to the metropolis, while the need is 10,000 housing units.
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"A new municipal team still has the right to have a little inventory time"
The promoter warns: “We cannot make housing policy without integrating demographic data, otherwise we are preparing a social housing crisis.
The all-metropolitan area is certainly no longer the only solution, we have to think about moving economic centers, but today the employment area is located in the metropolis, and it would be catastrophic to have to house people 50 km from Bordeaux.
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The new urban planning assistant at Bordeaux city hall, Bernard-Louis Blanc, confirms the majority's desire to “slow down real estate production for a time.
"" A new municipal team which comes to take place following a majority installed for twenty-five years, nevertheless has the right to have a little moment of inventory on enormous projects which engage the future of the city for several decades!
he exclaims.
The problem is that the world of real estate and construction is an extremely busy environment… ”
"There will be no more tax exemption products in Bordeaux"
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Bernard-Louis Blanc wishes in any case this break to allow everyone to reflect, to "bring the promoters and their subcontractors, the architects, back to the table to talk about the quality of the work carried out, which is not not at the rendezvous, look at the Bassins à Flot.
The number of modifying permits and additional work entail additional costs ranging from 30 to 50%, these are signs that in the frenzy of production in recent years, we no longer hold the economic model.
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Bernard-Louis Blanc, deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of resilient town planning - Mickaël Bosredon / 20minutes
Bernard-Louis Blanc intends to review certain measures that have been in use for years.
“It's an industry that has put in place a mind-boggling mechanism, thanks in particular to tax exemption, which is with Véfa (Sale in future state of completion) the accelerating super-product.
This is why I am announcing that, in principle, there will be no more tax exemption products in Bordeaux.
We want owner-occupiers, because that's how we make the city.
We will accept a number of tax exemptions at the margin, and only in the balance sheet of the operation, if we are provided with proof that this balances the project.
Les Bassins à Flot, it was 80% tax exemption, and it is still 70% in several operations in Bordeaux.
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The price of new apartments increased by 2.12% in one year
An announcement that chokes the representative of the promoters.
“Stopping tax exemption is a serious mistake, which is based on nothing.
It is dogmatic.
Tax exemption makes it possible to leave housing with capped rents, so fortunately there are some.
I do not understand why we are firing red bullets on these devices, which are objectively virtuous.
"To control the rental, Bernard-Louis Blanc asks for his part" 50% social housing in operations, against 35% maximum currently.
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Arnaud Roussel-Provost also fears a pressure on prices.
The average price of new housing in the metropolis of Bordeaux stands in the second quarter of 2020, at 4,431 euros / m2, parking included, according to the FPI, “an increase of 2.12% in one year, and unfortunately this trend does not will not be reversed in the coming months, because we are creating a shortage ”.
If the developer believes that "the only lever to lower prices is to reduce the cost of land", Bernard-Louis Blanc thinks for his part that a new model should be invented to lower housing prices, without altering the quality. .
"When I look at who are behind the Bordeaux operations, I only see large groups"
Finally, the REIT is concerned about the economic health of companies in its sector, “which represents 8% of regional GDP.
And warns of the risk of serial bankruptcy filings in the coming months.
“When I look at who are behind the Bordeaux operations, I only see large groups, analysis for his part Bernard-Louis Blanc.
I'm not very worried about these majors, because they operate on a national or even international territory, and even if in Bordeaux we take two or three months to look a little at these projects, we are not going to make them go wrong.
In any case, they have already got their hands on the land and the operations, they will do them… ”
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