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Energy Performance Certificate (EPC): What’s new in 2025

DPE nouveautés
12 September 2025

Discover the 2025 EPC updates: new rules, QR codes, blacklists, and ADEME controls to improve energy rating reliability.

  • Real estate

Apostille and Legalization

Actualité apostille te légalisation
27 August 2025

Both apostille and legalization facilitate the international circulation of official documents.

  • Apostille et légalisation

Adoption of the Law Aiming to Reduce and Regulate Bank Fees on Estates

succession et frais bancaires
26 August 2025

Estates: Certain Banking Procedures Will Become Free of Charge, Subject to Asset Thresholds or Heirs’ Circumstances

  • Succession

Notaries of France Partner with the International Congress for All Mediations

logo mediation
12 March 2025

The Notaries of France are participating in the 3rd edition of the International Congress for All Mediations, held in Angers from March 12 to 14, 2025

  • Role of a notary

Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility!

cybermalveillance - actualité
14 October 2024

Protect your data during property transactions. Discover notaries' tips to fight cybercrime and avoid scams.

  • Role of a notary

Real estate market report n°59 - april 2023

french property market report 59
15 May 2023

Real estate situation analyzed by the notaires de France: property prices and trends in the 4th quarter 2022

  • Real estate

Meet the notaries of France at the International Agricultural Show

Salon international de l'Agriculture - miniature
23 February 2023

Meet the notaries of France at the International Agricultural Show

French property market report NO.58 / January 2023

French property market report 58 - january 2023
06 February 2023

The cumulative volume of transactions for older homes over the last twelve months in France (excluding Mayotte) reached 1,116,000 transactions at the

  • Real estate

French property market report No57

French property market report No57
14 November 2022
  • Real estate

National Forum of Associations and Foundations

20 October 2022

At the Forum National des Associations & Fondations, the notaries of France led a conference with France Générosités on "The association, universal

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My father is facing financial difficulties and wants to sell his apartment. He is the debtor of co-ownership charges. Can he still sell his property?

Yes. While selling a lot of co-ownership, the seller must present to the notary a certificate from the property administrator, which is dated less than a month, attesting that he is free of any obligation with regard to the unions. Otherwise, the notary must notify the trustee that the co-owner…
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My tenant passed away. I learned from his neighbors that he had been accommodating his brother for two years. Can I still get my property back?

It depends. On the tenant’s death, the lease can be transferred to certain individuals expressly covered by the law (art. 14 law n°89-462 of July 6, 1989). Thus, if your tenant’s brother was dependent on the latter and lived with him for at least one year on the date of…
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I would like to make a donation-partage to my children with my apartment. Is it possible?

No. The operation would consist of giving each an undivided share of the property. However, the situation of joint ownership is incompatible with the donation-partage which requires that the donor distributes his property between the beneficiaries (art. 1075 C. civ. and Cass. Civ. 1e, 20 Nov. 2013, n°12-25.681).
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