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
Is it possible to have a document apostilled on site immediately without an appointment?

In urgent cases, apostille and legalisation centres operated by notaries may exceptionally process your documents quickly. An urgent service is available, allowing the formalities to be completed within 24 hours. However, this service is subject to the completeness of the application file. That said, unless a specific arrangement has been…
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I have been separated from my partner for two months. We bought a house together, and he is still living in it. We are about to sign a preliminary sale agreement. Will I have to pay capital gains tax when the house is sold?

No. You can benefit from the exemption provided for under Article 150 U II-1° of the General Tax Code, as long as the property was your main residence at the time of the separation, has been occupied by your ex-partner until the sale, and the sale takes place within a…
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My tenant passed away 5 months ago. All his furniture is still in the apartment. How can I recover the property to put it back on the rental market?

Unless someone is entitled to request the transfer of the lease (Article 14 of the Law of 6 July 1989), the tenant’s death terminates the rental contract. However, the furniture belongs to the tenant’s heirs. If they have not come forward to collect it, you must formally notify them through…
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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