“It doesn’t stop, it lasts until the sale is signed and it sometimes becomes ridiculous…” Notary in Paris and spokesperson for Notaires du Grand Paris, Élodie Frémont is assisting more and more, within its study, to requests for renegotiation of prices or benefits in kind in the context of a real estate purchase.
The practice had disappeared for a while with the surge in the post-Covid market where sales were completed in a few days, without discussion possible, at the firm price set by the seller. But it has reappeared in the last two years with the rise in interest rates and the fall in the number of candidates for property. Today, it even seems to be intensifying even though rates have been gradually falling for more than a year.
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