Owner: What are the rules for renting a furnished apartment?

Verified 08 February 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

You own a home that isn't your home? You want to make it a furnished rental? You can offer it to a tenant to make it his home, a second home or a holiday rental. Depending on the use chosen, the contract to be signed is different (dwelling lease, mobility lease or rental contract for a furnished tourist). The same applies to the rules for leasing and the taxes you will have to pay.

Tableau - Rules applicable to furnished goods according to their nature

Furnished residential lease

Mobility lease

Furnished tourist goods

Use of housing

The tenant makes housing his principal residence

The tenant makes housing his principal residence or his secondary residence

The tenant makes the accommodation a holiday rental

For which tenant?

Any person can be a tenant

The tenant must be in one of the following situations:

  • Vocational training
  • Higher education
  • Apprenticeship contract
  • Internship
  • Voluntary engagement in civic service
  • Occupational transfer
  • Temporary assignment in the course of professional activity

    • The same tenant must not rent the accommodation more than 90 days a year

    Lease Duration

    Minimum: 1 year

    But if the tenant is a student, the minimum is 9 months

    Minimum: 1 month

    Maximum: 10 months

    Hire by the day, week or month

    Content of the lease

    Regulated and specific

    Regulated and specific

    Regulated and specific

    Security deposit

    Maximum: 2 months rent (excluding charges)

    Forbidden

    Free

    Energy consumption

    In metropolitan France, housing must have a moderate energy consumption

    No limit

    Furnishing

    The dwelling must include at least some of the furniture

    There is no list of mandatory furniture. But the furniture is 1 of the criteria for the classification of furniture (optional)

    Advance Declarations

    None

    To taxes: declare the start of operations and obtain a SIRET number

    Content of the real estate listing

    Regulated and different depending on whether the ad is written by the owner or a real estate agency

    Free

    Rent

    Regulated or Free (depending on the municipality)

    Free

    Owner's tax

    Termination of the lease at the initiative of the tenant

    The rules on leave and notice shall be laid down in the lease agreement

    End of the lease at the initiative of the owner

    • At the end of the lease and for 1 of the authorized reasons (take-over to live, take-over to sell, or legitimate and serious reason).
    • Leave to be given with a period of notice of at least 3 months.
    • When the lease expires.
    • No leave to be given or notice period to be respected

    The rules on leave and notice shall be laid down in the lease agreement

    Who can help me?

    Find who can answer your questions in your region

    • Telephone administrative information - Allo Public Service

      For more information on this topic, you can contact Allô Service Public.

      Cost: free service

      The informants who answer you belong to the ministry in charge of housing and city planning.

      Attention: the service does not have access to users' personal files and cannot therefore provide information on their status.

      The service is available at the following times:

        • Lundi : de 08h30 à 16h15
        • Mardi : de 08h30 à 12h15
        • Mercredi : de 08h30 à 12h15
        • Jeudi : de 08h30 à 17h30
        • Vendredi : de 13h00 à 16h15

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    • Departmental Agency for Housing Information (Adil)