The Minister of Housing believes that it is “urgent to quickly vote on the 2025 budget”. Because “until it is voted on, the payment deadlines for MaPrimeRénov’ to individuals will be extended for all files which have not been processed before January 1, 2025,” warned Valérie Létard in an interview with Figaro published Friday.
Olivier Salleron, president of the FFB (French Building Federation), said he was surprised by “such constitutional amateurism”, in a press release released on Friday. “This situation, a new hitch in a system which did not need it after the mistakes of early 2024, will clearly cause a wait-and-see attitude and lead households to abandon the work they were planning,” estimates the FFB.
“A delay in aid payment deadlines”
The cabinet of the Ministry of Housing, now attached to the Minister of Regional Planning and Decentralization, wants to be reassuring and insists that these are only “delays”. “Households can continue to submit their files” for MaPrimeRénov’ aid requests, “they will be studied, but there will be a delay in the deadlines for payment of aid” for all files which have not been validated before January 1, indicates the ministry. Aid grant applications processed and validated before the start of the year will be paid without further delay.
To compensate for the absence of a state finance law for 2025, a consequence of the censorship of the Barnier government, a “special law” was adopted and promulgated urgently in December to authorize the executive to collect tax and borrow to finance the State and Social Security. Enough to ensure the continuity of the State, “but nothing more”, underlined the general rapporteur of the Finance Committee in the Senate, Jean-François Husson (Les Républicains).
30 billion euros in turnover in 2023
For building professionals, energy renovation represented 30 billion euros in turnover in 2023, or 14% of the total, according to the FFB. She is therefore concerned about the possibility for “Anah to validate new requests for aid” in this context and recalls that “the sustainability of tens of thousands of businesses is at stake, therefore the employment of hundreds of thousands of artisans, entrepreneurs and journeymen.”
Concerning the obligation to renovate very energy-intensive housing (classified G in the energy performance diagnosis) rented out, Valérie Létard affirms that owners are not left “alone to face their obligations”, thanks to MaPrimeRénov’ aid. She “calls on their responsibility” to comply with energy decency obligations and considers that “owners are not intended to be controlled”.
For real estate professionals, the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) will continue to monitor their activities.
