30% lessons in four years, the market in high tension

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After almost two months of research in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) and around thirty files filed, for a young woman, it may be the last visit. “”I spend some time a day, one or two hours, to watch the announcements and send my application or call agencies and individuals. I think I will bet today all my chances on this one “, she said.

To hope to obtain the keys, she had to submit her file right away, because there are numerous rental candidates. “”On this apartment, we had a little over thirty requests. (…) There are evenings when you can put an ad and have more than a hundred requests in the night. Everything goes fast enough right now“, reacts François Delava, manager of real estate adequacy in Strasbourg.

Here, as in most major cities, becoming a tenant is a real obstacle course. Compared to 2021, there are on one side more and more French people looking to rent (+ 40%) and fewer and fewer accommodation on the market (- 30%). If the rental market is flu, it is partly due to rates still too high: more than 3% over 25 years.

“”Today, the French find it difficult to buy their accommodation, they relate to the rental market and therefore it is more rental requests and fewer offers since the tenants remain in place. The classic mechanism that was ‘I am a tenant, I become primary acted’ is in a certain way“, Analysis Thomas Lefebvre, vice-president data to seloger

To relaunch the sector, the rules for calculating energy performance diagnosis have just been reviewed. From now on, thermal colanders with electric heating can be rented again. Nearly a million goods should return to the market in 2026.