Another meeting with Bureau in Paris

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 central Paris. I asked for another meeting with the management of the offices dealing with this at city hall in Paris yesterday (November 26th).

Last year I worked with a company who rented luxury apartments in central Paris and I have been developing rental websites for France for over 12 years, so I know a little about this business. At present I am not involved, although I can see some opportunities which will evolve from these initiatives by the government.

With me at this meeting was Susie Hollands who operates a services and property company in Paris. I have known Susie for over a year and she is one of two people in France in the real-estate business who I find to be honest and reliable (very rare for realtors) – the other is a gentleman who has a good agency in the south of France near Cannes.

We were left in no doubt that this formidable (and now substantial) team intent to first actively prosecute some highly visible property owners. The publicity is likely to cause a reaction where private landlords will have to think very seriously about renting their properties, either directly or though an agency, or risk fines or possible imprisonment.

In fact there are three laws being flouted if a residential property in central Paris is rented for less than 12 months (nine months in the case of a student) – I have given details of the ones relating to urbanism in the links on this page, I will put others on as soon as I can.

A lot of this information is accessible on the Paris website http://paris.fr – you have to dig deep on the site to reach this page and this particular information is only available in French – the team at City Hall agreed yesterday to try to make it available in English and to post more information, meanwhile I will try to add what I can to this blog.