Toward a Reform of Leases That Create Real Rights

In an op-ed published by the Revue de Droit Immobilier de Lefebvre Dalloz, our partner Xavier LIEVRE responds to the Congress’s proposal to adapt the long-term lease so that it addresses current environmental concerns by allowing the lessor to impose conditions that facilitate the implementation of environmental compensation measures.

Xavier points out that leases creating real property rights are often ill-suited to renovation projects, citing the examples of construction leases and rehabilitation leases, and argues that the shift from a “construction-based” urban planning approach to a “transformation-based” one—as advocated by the Congress—should serve as an opportunity to reform leases creating real property rights to adapt them to this challenge.

Read the full article in the Revue de Droit Immobilier
No. 10 – October 2024