Civil & Administrative

#2025-1186 QPC19 Mart 2026 tarihli 2025-1186 QPC sayılı karar

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The Constitutional Council ruled that certain provisions of a law regarding property co-ownership are constitutional. These provisions allow a majority of co-owners to modify rules about renting out properties as tourist accommodations, aiming to address issues like neighborhood disturbances and housing shortages. The decision confirms that such modifications must be justified and do not infringe on property rights or entrepreneurial freedoms.

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Key Changes

  • Majority rule for modifying rental regulations
  • Focus on addressing neighborhood disturbances

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Co-ownership syndicates may modify co-ownership bylaws to prohibit rental of residential units as tourist accommodations only where the existing bylaw already prohibits all commercial activity in non-commercial units

Co-ownership syndicates (syndics de copropriété)
operational
high

Decisions to modify co-ownership bylaws regarding prohibition of tourist accommodation rentals must be made by a majority of syndicate members representing at least two-thirds of votes

Co-ownership syndicates (syndics de copropriété)
operational
high

Any prohibition of tourist accommodation rentals imposed through bylaw modification must be justified by the building's destination as defined in the property deeds, its characteristics, or its location, subject to judicial review

Co-ownership syndicates (syndics de copropriété)
operational
high

Co-ownership bylaws cannot impose restrictions on co-owners' rights except those justified by the building's destination, characteristics, or location

Co-ownership syndicates (syndics de copropriété) and individual co-owners
prohibition
high

Co-ownership syndicates must enforce that any modification to co-ownership rules prohibiting rental of residential units as tourist accommodations must be justified by the destination of the building and subject to judicial review

Co-ownership syndicates (syndics de copropriété)
operational

Affected Parties

Property co-ownersTourist rental operators

Tags

property,tourism,co-ownership