Alexandre Dalifard / Photo credit: SEBASTIAN RAU / PHOTOTHEK / DPA PICTURE-ALLIANCE VIA AFP 08:00, 02 June 2023

Faced with the real estate market, increasingly saturated and in tension, PAP launches the Locathèque service, in partnership with DossierFacile. It aims to simplify life and save time for both tenants and owners. Objective: to make the rental journey more efficient and secure.

A saturated real estate market. In recent years and especially the health crisis, it is not easy for tenants to find a rental. The apartment search is often an obstacle course for them. And the numbers prove it. According to a study conducted by PAP, a site reserved for private real estate, 45.4% of tenants are unhappy with the lack of answers from owners and 36.6% complain that everything is already rented. Today, tenants must be extremely responsive to find housing in a tense area. Faced with this, they can expose themselves to weeks of fruitless research but especially to scams.

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With an excessive number of requests, 83 contacts on a studio ad, landlords are unable to cope with the influx of tenants. Too often, they find themselves lacking the information necessary for the selection of profiles, and some applications are abandoned because they do not contain all the documents of the file. Moreover, with the slowdown in the real estate market and increasingly select access to bank credit, the situation is likely to be even more critical in 2023.

People do not have the means to become homeowners and therefore remain tenants, which causes a lack of turnover and "leads to a drop in supply of 17% compared to last summer," says the PAP statement. To combat its difficulties, the platform is in partnership with DossierFacile, the state's digital rental file service. With this partnership, the Locathèque service is born and meets the needs of owners and tenants throughout the process.

Support in the creation of the rental file

Building a tenant file is not so simple. The supporting documents to be provided are often numerous and can end up losing tenants, especially depending on their situation. This is why the service provided by DossierFacile specifies to each the list of documents that concern them and tenants can thus submit the supporting documents that correspond to their situation. The purpose of this service is to ensure fairness between tenants and allow them to compose a file that meets the expectations of landlords and complies with the law. This DossierFacile service has been integrated on the PAP platform, so tenants can create their rental file on the site.

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Once the file is complete, the State Service checks the supporting documents and validates them in less than 24 hours. A necessary speed in the apartment search, where ads come and go in a short time. This allows the tenant to obtain a folder labeled DossierFacile, which is shared with the owners thanks to a link and which is protected against identity theft thanks to a watermark affixed to the documents.

Applications automatically sent to owners

Once the file is complete, the tenant is therefore eligible to register for the Locathèque, the new service offered by PAP. On this platform, he can indicate his search criteria such as the surface, the budget or the number of rooms of the property. Subsequently, the service of Individual to Individual takes care of "checking the consistency of the budget with the file and is responsible for writing a message of application that corresponds to the expectations of the owners," says the press release.

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At this stage, the tenant has nothing more to do. "La Locathèque automatically applies as soon as a new ad matching the tenant's criteria is placed on PAP.fr. The tenant is guaranteed not to miss any ad and the Locathèque guarantees maximum responsiveness, since the application is transmitted within ten minutes of the publication of an ad, "adds the press release.

This service is transparent and secure since the owners who place an ad on the PAP website are directly controlled. The tenant, who is notified as soon as his file is transmitted, can complete it and interrupt the transmission at any time if he wishes. For their part, owners can "consult the documents of the file online and thus very easily select the applications that suit them". All they have to do is contact the tenants to arrange a visit. A service that makes it possible to make the rental journey more efficient while securing it.