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British Tenant in France After Brexit: Getting Your Deposit Back, Splitting Repairs, and Challenging a Conge or Eviction

British tenant in France? Recover your deposit with the 10% monthly penalty, split repairs correctly, challenge a conge and use the winter truce. Full guide with official texts and 2026 case …

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British Landlord in France After Brexit: Unpaid Rent, Notice to Quit and Eviction — Getting Your Property Back Within the Rules

Your French tenant has stopped paying, or you want the property back to sell or repossess. This guide explains the six-week demand, court delays, the winter truce, the six-month notice to qu …

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Renting in France After Brexit: British Tenants, Deposits, Inventories and How to Defeat an Unfair Eviction Notice

British tenant in France? Deposit caps, refund deadlines, the inventory comparison that decides disputes, and how to annul a landlord's notice or survive eviction, with Paris rules.

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Selling or Repossessing Your Tenanted Flat in France as a Foreign Owner: Conge pour Vente, Conge pour Reprise and the Traps That Void Them

Foreign owner of a tenanted French flat? A notice to sell counts as an offer the tenant can take up, a notice to move in must be genuine on the day it is served, and tenants over 65 may bloc …

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Your French Landlord Served Notice to End Your Shop Lease While You Live Abroad: Defective Congé, the 2-Year Deadline and Your Eviction Pay

Your landlord served a conge ending your French commercial lease while you run the company from abroad. Check the notice line by line, contest within the two-year deadline and count your evi …

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Paris Rent Caps and the Complément de Loyer: How Foreign Landlords Set, Justify and Defend the Extra Rent

Paris rent ceiling explained for foreign landlords: reference rents, the 20% cap, the three conditions for a lawful complément de loyer, the tenant's three-month challenge and the December 2 …

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Taking Back Your French Flat: Foreign Landlord’s Notice to Vacate to Sell or Repossess

Six-month notice, three lawful motives, tenant pre-emption and fraud challenges: the 2026 guide for foreign landlords recovering a French let property.

Leases and renting

British Landlord in France After Brexit: Serving a Congé to Sell or Take Back Your Flat, the Winter Truce, and Evicting a Tenant Who Stays

British owner letting a French flat and need it back? This guide covers the congé to sell and the congé to take back: price and offer rules, the real-and-serious test, the over-65 shield, th …

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Paris Rent Cap (Encadrement des Loyers): Foreign Landlord’s Guide to Defending Your Rent and Supplement After a Tenant Challenge (2026)

Your Paris tenant challenges your rent or rent supplement: reference rents, conciliation, the judge, and the December 2025 rulings every foreign landlord should know.

Leases and renting

Your French Tenant Pays But Will Not Leave After Brexit: How a British Landlord Sells or Takes Back an Occupied Flat

Your French tenant pays but will not leave. This guide gives British landlords both exits: the sale notice with the tenant's right of first refusal, and the repossession notice, with fraud t …

Leases and renting

Your French Company Rents Premises While You Live Abroad: 3/6/9 Commercial Lease, Deposit, Rent Revision, Renewal and Eviction Defence

Foreign founder renting an office, shop or warehouse in France from abroad: signing the 9-year commercial lease, deposit and charges, rent revision, early exit, renewal and eviction compensa …

Leases and renting

Renting Your First French Home After Brexit: the Lease, the Deposit, Repairs, and How to Challenge Eviction, Charges and an Unfair Congé

British tenant in France after Brexit: French lease rules, deposit deadlines and the 10% monthly penalty, repairs, conge challenges and eviction defences including the winter truce.

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