Home rated G and a lease that renews in France: from when is it no longer compliant?

Your home is rated G and you were already renting it out before 2025? Your lease continues. But at its next renewal date, the home no longer counts as decent housing, and your tenant can take action.

Key points

Your lease is not cancelled — It continues, and your tenant stays in the home.
It all happens at the renewal date — Not on 1 January 2025, but on the day your lease renews after that date.
Then the tenant can act — Demand works and ask the judge to lower the rent.

What date applies to your lease?

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When is your lease affected?§

A lease signed before the ban is not affected straight away. It is affected on the day it renews. That day depends on the type of letting:

3 years

Unfurnished letting

The lease renews every 3 years (6 if the owner is a company).

1 year

Furnished letting

Renewed every year, on the anniversary date.

9 months

Furnished student letting

No renewal: it is your next lease that counts.

Example: unfurnished lease signed on 1 September 2020, rated G

1 Sept. 2020
Lease signed.
1 Sept. 2023
First renewal. The ban does not exist yet: nothing changes.
1 Jan. 2025
Homes rated G can no longer be let.
1 Sept. 2026
Second renewal: from that day, the home no longer complies.

Same logic for a home rated F: the ban arrives on 1 January 2028 and applies from the first renewal date after it.

What your tenant can do§

The lease is not terminated automatically, and no fine is provided for letting a main residence rated G. The home no longer meets a legal condition, and the law gives your tenant remedies. They can:

1
Write to you
They ask you to bring the home up to standard.
2
Go to conciliation
Before the departmental commission, free of charge.
3
Go to court
If nothing moves.

The judge can:

Order the works
Set a deadline
Lower the rent
Suspend rent payments

Two exceptions: the judge does not impose works if your co-ownership refused those on the common parts despite your efforts, or if architectural or heritage constraints make them impossible.

The rent can no longer go up§

Is your DPE rating up to date?§

Your DPE dates from before July 2021?
It is no longer valid. A new diagnosis may give a different class.
You heat with electricity?
Since 1 January 2026, the calculation is more favourable to electricity. Your home may already have changed class, without works. Free certificate on the ADEME website

Find the home’s DPE in the ADEME database

Can a new law change these dates?§

The timetable§

2025
G
banned
2028
F
banned
2034
E
banned

In Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte: G from 2028, F from 2031.