Archives for November, 2009

I am receiving non-stop emails from clients, owners, those involved in Banking, Renting property, Servicing property and individual owners from outwith our company. It does not seem that after we met the Chef du Bureau at the Department of Logement that the rules are clear. The Mairie de Paris and the Prefecture de [...]


In this blog I am posting about the threatened prosecutions of owners, by the City of Paris, who are renting private apartments in Paris for short term rentals, especially vacation rentals. Short term is defined for a period of less than a year, or nine months if it is to a student. Any period less than [...]


This post should be read in context with the two other posts and comments following them. To get a clear picture on what is happening and what may be planned to happen in Paris relating to the enforcement of the laws to stop private property be rented to short term (less than one year) tenants in [...]


The recent application of laws to restrict the rental of apartments in central Paris is of major significance to the financial investments of thousands of private owners. It is also a matter of serious concern to anyone renting an apartment from a private owner as they may not have adequate insurance cover. In the first post [...]


Apartment living is the Paris way of life.....Prices charged for vacation and holiday rentals for private lets in Paris are a minimum of four times the rental charged for a regular tenant....t is actually illegal for the owner of a private apartment in Paris to offer this for rent as a vacation property, or for any form of short-term furnished letting.....