In 2006 this percentage deflects slightly 21

Finite queues stairs to visit a location, completed the anxieties of the tenants to find out who will be pleased to elected officials. Now, the leasing market is is more tense, even if some regions such as Ile-de-France or d'Azur still suffer from an imbalance between the supply and demand. This appeasement is several factors. With first a premium to purchase. Indeed, rents have greatly increased until 2003, while at the same time, the interest rate fell, tenants made their calculation: so take advantage of this favourable to the acquisition situation, the banks lending to 100, or even 110 and very long durations. At the time, the available rental Park increases and market relaxes. A study by the Observatory clamor about 500,000 references through 639 cities gives recent trends. "For the year 2006, the increase in rents has slowed significantly, around 3.5, 5.1 in 2005 and 5.8 per cent in 2004.". "And in 2007, the increase should be between 2 and 2.5," commented Michel Mouillart, Director of the study and Professor of Economics at the université Paris-X. Overall, these are rents in small units which are progressing less quickly: 3.1 for the studios (against 4 on average each year between 1998 and 2006), 3.3 for both parts and 3.9 for the three parts against 4.2 previously. Enrevanche, the increase for large surfaces, four and five parts, was higher in 2006 than in previous years: 4 and 4.5 compared to 3.6 and 3.7 previously).

Barriers to rental

Has been said, it is currently easier to buy than to rent, banks down the red carpet to the accession candidates. "Therefore, the best candidates to the rental left and those remaining today are the candidates more fragile financially, analysis Henry Buzy-Cazaux, Vice-President of Tagerim, real estate group that handles 100,000 lots." However, as rents remain high even if they accuse a slight correction, barriers to entry remain fixed at high level. "For a lease, must be already presented a number of documents: contract of employment and three recent records of salary or review of the past years for the liberal professions, identified tax... the gains of the tenant to represent at least three times the amount of the rent. However, the Act establishing the enforceable right to the housing (Dalo), March 5, 2007, in its article 35, establishes a list of documents that a lessor cannot be more candidate tenant, among others a copy of its statement of account, a lack of current credit certificate, a certificate from the employer as it can be supplied the contract of employment and pay slipsan attestation to the previous lessor stating that the tenant is updated then it can make releases, the production of more than two balance sheets for the self-employed... Are also starting to be reported the first contracts with "guaranteed rental risks" that secure the lessor (see , the site of the 1 housing). Is that the biggest difficulty for a tenant to pay, before even entering the premises, a considerable sum. "At least three months, since the Act provides for a security deposit of two months of rent out loads and the need to pay the first month of entry into the premises", said Serge Ivars, President of the National Confederation of managers of assets (CNAB). Not to mention the equivalent of a month of fees if the rental is made by a professional. Sometimes, the lessor is still quite additional precautions. "In rentals high-end where rents exceed EUR included charges 3.800, donors seek an income equal to four times the amount of the rent and most of the time equivalent to a year in rent bank guarantee", note Alexandra Bohuon, the Feau rental service. And, for foreigners renting more than 30,000 euros a 400 m2 avenue Foch, for example, the bank guarantee may be equivalent to two years of rent. But it is mainly for the classic tenant that the deposit is heavy to bear. Hence the various proposals concerning these deposits heard in the electoral campaign.

In a context of rental market where supply is larger, the tenant feels in a good position and he seeks to negotiate. Recently, the Century 21 network is the Tower of its agencies to develop a kind of rent weather. And, said Sylvain Jutteau, Director of the Department of property management, "most of our managers found that tenants were systematically asking lower rent, or even outright arrived saying want to such amount and not a euro more. However other administrators of property not find attempts at negotiation.

The change in the ratio of force for the benefit of tenants is growing requirements. "For several years, the tenant has become, rightly, demanding about the quality of the property that it will live." "And it is not because, today, the market relaxes that expectations have been revised downwards", analysis Henry Buzy-Cazaux. An incoming tenant wants a clean paint, a carpet maintained, a bathroom where tile joints are not black of fouling, a valves not uncritical of limestone... Nothing but very normal. The practice of the rentals with free rent in exchange for a reclamation is no longer news. "It is no longer in the crafts or the hack, but in a market which is professionalized", recalls a player in the market. That said, if adventure a tenant feels attracted by work, good advice: describe the work envisaged, encrypt and attach all the lease.

The quality of private rental Park, it is true, is improved in a few years: according to hue, in 2005, for example, 25.3 per cent of the relocations had been of improvement and maintenance work. In 2006, this percentage deflects slightly: 21.3. A decline which worries Michel Mouillart: "If the slowdown of the rent is positive for the tenant, it weighs on the improvement effort carried out by the owners." And, again, the tenant shall be entitled to play the difficult.