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Situations: 24 guides
- A partner leaves, is expelled or dies: what are the shares worth?
- Appointing a property valuation expert in France: practical notes
- Compulsory purchase of my business premises: what compensation?
- Divorce in France: who keeps the house, how much is the buy-out?
- Divorce of a business owner: what are the business and shares worth?
- Drafting a market value expert remit for a partition in France
- French banks: mortgage lending value, prudent value or market value?
- French tax office challenges the value of the house I inherited
- French wealth tax (IFI): what value to declare for my house and SCI?
- How to challenge the court-appointed expert's report in France
- I paid too much for my French house: can I challenge the price?
- Inherited house in France: how to leave a family joint ownership?
- Inheriting a French house occupied by my brother: how is it valued?
- Lease renewal in France: my landlord wants to uncap the rent
- Matrimonial property liquidation in France: which valuation date?
- My landlord refuses to renew my lease in France: what compensation?
- My neighbour is building a block of flats: will my house lose value?
- Pre-emption by a public body in France: setting a defensible price
- Preparing a donation-partage in France: how do we value the lots?
- Producing a valuation in a French court: which format to choose?
- Selling a protected adult's home in France: the judge's authorisation
- Selling my business in France: what is it really worth?
- Selling my hotel in France: premises and business, at what value?
- Valuing SCI shares in a French inheritance or gift: the method
Insights: 77 articles
Market value, inheritance and divorce
- Preferential allocation: the soulte is due only at partition
- Usufruct of SCI shares and life annuity sales: valuing the rights
- Sale below value in France: rescission for lesion in two rulings
- Divorce in France: compensation for works on one spouse's house
- Common parts sold for €1: the French co-owners had to act sooner
- Undervaluation by the estate agent: the value gap must be proved
- Divorce in France: home valued at partition, even if run down
- Inheritance in France: gifted land is valued as bare land
- Divorce in France: when to value the house, who pays the expert
- Lifetime mortgage in France: why the valuation is decisive
- Reserve price in a French property foreclosure: how it is set
- Valuing common parts of a French building, including a stairwell
- Avoiding property foreclosure in France: what the judge expects
Commercial leases and eviction
- Commercial lease: twelve years and one day, the rent is uncapped
- Rental value in France: advance rent and turnover rent rulings
- Occupation indemnity after a French commercial lease: two rulings
- Eviction compensation in France: the tenant has two years to act
- Eviction compensation after pre-emption: leasehold and buildings
- Rent uncapping and material change: two French rulings of 2025
- French commercial lease beyond twelve years: no rent smoothing
- Commercial rent uncapping in France: four ways out of the cap
- French commercial lease: can rent rise automatically each year?
- French commercial rent uncapping: tramway and changing customers
- Eviction compensation: a photo shop in a French shopping centre
- Decontamination costs and eviction compensation: the 2022 ruling
Businesses and company shares
- Gift of money invested in a company: rapport at share value
- Share sale price in France: the expert follows the protocol
- Article 1843-4 Civil Code: the expert may give two valuations
- SCI shares and French wealth tax: two 10 % discounts, not three
- SCI shares in a French inheritance: which discounts are accepted?
- Valuing SCI shares in France: methods and a worked example
- Valuing old shop stock in France: six methods, a worked example
Loss of value and damages
- Hidden insulation defect: time runs from the expert's report
- Seller's fraud: claiming the excess price without annulment
- Sale annulled for noise: a lost capital gain must be certain
- Hidden defect repaired by a third party: buyer keeps price claim
- Landlocked land in France: one right-of-way indemnity per user
- Occupation indemnity in France: rent, surcharge and income cap
- Missing floor area in France: who can claim, and from whom
- Incorrect energy certificate: lost chance to negotiate the price
- Loss of view in a dense urban area: French court demands context
- New building next door: valuing the loss on your French house
- Non-compliant drainage in France: hidden defect and price refund
- Builders' liability in France: legal grounds and awards
- Loss of view in France: not automatically a neighbour nuisance
- Prefer a quote to a flat-rate deduction: French pre-emption case
- Claiming loss of enjoyment and devaluation of a French home
- Leaseback in France: can a Pierre & Vacances sale be cancelled?
- Cancelling a French off-plan purchase for an overvalued price?
- Tax incentive property in France: check the real value first
- Damp wall after buying in France: does the price reflect it?
- Selling below value in France: the seller is deemed to know
- Cancelling a property sale in France for a price far too low?
Compulsory purchase and pre-emption
- Compulsory purchase in a ZAC: who must prove the utilities?
- SAFER pre-emption at a revised price: withdrawal until judgment
- Pre-emption price in France: valued as it stands at judgment
- Compulsory purchase compensation in France: three key rulings
- Compulsory purchase in France: three recent Cassation rulings
Court and private expert reports
- Private expert report: its own annexes can corroborate it
- Private valuation reports: what a French judge can do with them
- Independence of a French court expert: assessed case by case
- What a French property valuation report must contain
- How to become a (credible) property valuation expert in France
Tax and value
- Inheritance tax in France: a later resale does not fix the value
- French wealth tax: building land with environmental constraints
- Buying property in Luxembourg: is it still worth it? The figures
- French property tax incentives in 2025, mainland and overseas
- Disguised gift: French tax reassessment of a family sale
Hotels
- How to value a hotel in France: 7 methods and a worked example
- Top 10 hotel brands in France in 2026: chains and networks
- Six hotel management models in France and their effect on value
Methods and standards
- French energy certificate reform 2026: impact on market value
- EVS 2025: how the new valuation standards affect French property
- Energy renovation in France: why savings fall short of forecasts
- Energy rating and property prices: correlation is not causation
- How to estimate average property prices in your French town
- French mortgage rates: how they move and what they do to values
Glossary: 85 terms
- Abatement of gifts (réduction des libéralités)
- Abnormal neighbourhood disturbance (trouble anormal de voisinage)
- Allowance (abattement)
- Article 1843-4 of the French Civil Code
- Bare ownership (nue-propriété)
- Business as a going concern (fonds de commerce)
- Business disruption (trouble commercial)
- Capitalisation rate (taux de capitalisation)
- Capped rent (loyer plafonné)
- Carrez floor area (surface Carrez)
- Commercial rents index (indice des loyers commerciaux, ILC)
- Comparable
- Comparison method (méthode par comparaison)
- Compensation between spouses (récompense)
- Compulsory purchase (expropriation)
- Court-appointed expert (expert judiciaire)
- Court-ordered sale of joint property (licitation)
- Critical review of a valuation report (seconde lecture)
- DCF (discounted cash flow)
- Declaration of public interest (déclaration d'utilité publique, DUP)
- Depreciated replacement cost (coût de remplacement déprécié)
- Desktop valuation (avis de valeur)
- Discount (décote)
- Discount for occupation (décote pour occupation)
- Discount rate (taux d'actualisation)
- Disposable portion (quotité disponible)
- Division of ownership (démembrement de propriété)
- Equalising payment (soulte)
- Eviction compensation (indemnité d'éviction)
- Expropriation judge (juge de l'expropriation)
- Fair value (juste valeur)
- Forced heirship share (réserve héréditaire)
- French commercial lease (bail commercial)
- Government commissioner (commissaire du gouvernement)
- Green value (valeur verte)
- Habitable floor area (surface habitable)
- Hidden defect (vice caché)
- Hotchpot of gifts (rapport des donations)
- Illiquidity discount (décote d'illiquidité)
- Income method (méthode par le revenu)
- Indexation clause (clause d'échelle mobile)
- Investment value (valeur d'investissement)
- Joint ownership (indivision)
- Joint private valuation (expertise amiable conjointe)
- Key money (pas-de-porte)
- Land value for development (charge foncière)
- Leasehold right (droit au bail)
- Lesion (lésion)
- Litigation support (assistance à expertise)
- Local commercial factors (facteurs locaux de commercialité)
- Loss of enjoyment (perte de jouissance)
- Loss of value (moins-value)
- Loss of value of the retained land (dépréciation du surplus)
- Market value (valeur vénale)
- Material change (modification notable)
- Minority discount (décote de minorité)
- Mortgage lending value (valeur hypothécaire)
- Occupation indemnity (indemnité d'occupation)
- Preferential allocation (attribution préférentielle)
- Preliminary report (pré-rapport)
- Principal compensation (indemnité principale)
- Property loss (préjudice immobilier)
- Property valuation report (expertise en évaluation immobilière)
- Prudent value (valeur prudente)
- Rebuilding cost (valeur de reconstruction)
- Reference date (date de référence)
- Reinvestment allowance (indemnité de remploi)
- Relocation compensation (indemnité de transfert)
- Renewal rental value (valeur locative de renouvellement)
- Rent smoothing (lissage)
- Rent uncapping (déplafonnement)
- Rental value (valeur locative)
- Replacement compensation (indemnité de remplacement)
- Residual method (bilan promoteur)
- Restated net asset value (actif net réévalué)
- Right of option (droit d'option)
- Right of pre-emption (droit de préemption)
- SCI shares (parts de SCI)
- Specialist assisting the expert (sapiteur)
- Third-party valuer (tiers évaluateur)
- Usufruct (usufruit)
- Valuation date (date de valeur)
- Weighted floor area (surface pondérée)
- Written observations to the expert (dire)
- Yield (taux de rendement)