Even if an upturn is felt in terms of real estate sales, officials of the French Federation of the Finistère building are worried and launch an alert on several subjects which concern their professions. The first is linked to construction: “The number of individual housing starts continues to decrease. It's catastrophic! 16 % less in the year 2024 compared to 2023, it is a very low level, “says Bruno Poupon, the president of the Federation, putting a downside: a slight resumption of requests for construction of housing at the end of 2024 .
“Calls of tenders remain unanswered”
“In addition, in the absence of a finance law, the files linked to the” My Rénova Prime “system are blocked and we do not know how much the allocated budgets will be. From year to year, the criteria change, as well as the overall sum. In 2024, she had been planed by a billion, “he worried.
But this device is not the only one that the absence of a finance law puts in suspense. Public contracts are also impacted: “Several companies have responded to calls for tenders and remain unanswered. For example, for Fortin projects and the Bohars psychiatric hospital, this represents 20,000 m2 sites that are blocked in the study phase, ”gives Jean-Charles Le Borgne, business manager and business as an example Member of the Board of Directors of the Federation.
More and more finds it difficult to recruit
Business managers also alert on the practices of their various customers in terms of penalties: “A few years ago, the terms of payment of penalties held on two lines in contracts. Today, it is on several pages. It is impossible for us, entrepreneurs, to escape it with amounts superior to those authorized because derogations are possible, ”protests those responsible.
-It should also be noted that building entrepreneurs are increasingly difficult to recruit, even with the increase in the number of young people in apprenticeship in the department.
Creation of an innovation center
However, the table is not only black. The Federation of the Finistère building will create a new innovation center which will allow entrepreneurs to anticipate changes by support and advice to members of the Federation. “This service is intended to be concrete and pragmatic. Thus, he will assist companies, for example in the research of subsidies for the innovations that they can set up, such as the use of artificial intelligence, ”concludes Bruno Poupon.
