DPE rental ban date for your lease
In mainland France, a home rated G can no longer be let since 1 January 2025; F follows on 1 January 2028 and E on 1 January 2034. A lease already running is only affected at its next renewal date: enter the rating and the lease date to get the date that applies to you.
What this changes
- The current lease stays valid until its renewal date. The ban applies to a lease signed, renewed or tacitly rolled over after the date: every 3 years for unfurnished lets (6 years if the landlord is a company), every year for furnished lets.
- After this date the home is no longer decent. The tenant can ask for it to be brought up to standard, go to the departmental conciliation board and then to court; the judge can order the works and reduce or suspend the rent. The judge does not order works if the landlord proves they were refused by the co-ownership or are impossible for architectural or heritage reasons.
- Electric heating: since 1 January 2026, electricity counts with a factor of 1.9 instead of 2.3. For a DPE carried out since 1 July 2021, a certificate with the recalculated rating can be downloaded free of charge from ADEME’s DPE observatory; it has the same value as the original DPE.
- Calculated for mainland France. In Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte the schedule is later: G from 2028, F from 2031.
- The housing recovery bill (passed by the Senate on 8 July 2026, under review at the National Assembly) provides for exemptions, notably when works are committed to. Until it is enacted, it changes nothing to the dates above.
Further reading (in French): DPE G and a rolled-over lease, what you risk and from when
Rules checked on 28 September 2026.
Sources: art. 6 and 20-1 of law no. 89-462 of 6 July 1989; decree no. 2002-120 of 30 January 2002; law no. 2021-1104 of 22 August 2021 (Climate and Resilience).