DECRYPTION – While many buyers turn away when offered to visit them, some swear by thermal strainers, buy them and renovate them. They are convinced that they will eventually land on their feet.
« If I had to do it again, I would do everything the same way. » Sonia, 64 years old, administrative secretary, likes to go against the grain and has consistent ideas. She swears by class G housing, the worst energy rating that can be given to an apartment or a house, on energy performance diagnostics (DPE). It must be said that this Auxerre resident has stood out every time she has approached this type of property. First when she sold, last year, her mother's house, a pavilion built in 1970 with an area of 85 square meters, with 670 square meters of garden located in Cézy (Yonne), to around forty kilometers from Auxerre. The residence was in good general condition, “to be refreshed” according to the established formula. But it had a major handicap: the cursed G grade due to oil heating, insufficient wall insulation and poorly performing windows.
When it went on sale, Sonia was not overly worried. And what follows proves him right. “The house, she says, left…
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