{"id":2146756,"date":"2026-10-13T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/2026\/10\/13\/british-tenant-france-renting-deposit-inventory-conge-challenge-brexit\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:01:09","slug":"british-tenant-france-renting-deposit-inventory-conge-challenge-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/british-tenant-france-renting-deposit-inventory-conge-challenge-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Renting in France After Brexit: British Tenants, Deposits, Inventories and How to Defeat an Unfair Eviction Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have found the flat in Paris, Lyon or Bordeaux, signed a bail<\/em> (residential lease) you only half understood, paid a dépôt de garantie<\/em> (security deposit), and moved in with a visa stamp still fresh in your passport. Months or years later, one of two letters ruins your week: the agence<\/em> (letting agent) keeps most of your deposit for repainting you never damaged, or the landlord serves a congé<\/em> (formal notice to quit) telling you to leave at the end of the lease. Both moments follow strict French rules, and both are winnable when you know the timetable, the comparison documents and the exact words the statute requires. This guide explains, for a British tenant living in France after Brexit, how the deposit comes back, why the état des lieux<\/em> (check-in and check-out inventory) decides nearly every dispute, how a landlord’s notice can be annulled for a missing sentence, and which shields protect you against eviction, including the specific Paris and Île-de-France rules on rent caps and conciliation.<\/p>\n

I. Getting Your Deposit Back: The Inventory Comparison and The Strict Deadlines<\/h2>\n

French law treats the deposit as your money held in trust, not as a parting gift to the landlord. The rules sit in one short statute, the Act of 6 July 1989 on the landlord-tenant relationship, and in a handful of Civil Code articles that every judge applies the same way, from Châlons-en-Champagne to Paris. Read this section with your lease, both inventories and your key handover receipt on the table.<\/p>\n

A. How Much The Landlord Can Take, When It Must Come Back, And The 10 Per Cent Penalty<\/h3>\n

The starting point is section 22 of the Act of 6 July 1989, which caps the deposit and sets the refund clock. For an unfurnished letting where the rent is payable monthly in advance, the deposit cannot exceed one month’s rent excluding charges<\/em> (service charges), and it must be stated in the lease. For a furnished letting the ceiling is two months’ rent excluding charges. The official service-public guidance confirms the one-month ceiling for empty homes and adds a detail British tenants often miss: where the rent is payable quarterly in advance, no deposit may be demanded at all, as explained on the official security-deposit page<\/a>. The landlord can never top the deposit up during the lease or at renewal.<\/p>\n

The refund deadline then depends on a single comparison. As the judge in Châlons-en-Champagne recalled in a February 2026 judgment ordering full restitution: the deposit must be returned within two months of the handover of the keys to the landlord or his agent, in person or by recorded delivery, less any sums still owed by the tenant and any sums the landlord could have to pay in the tenant’s place, provided they are properly documented.<\/em> In plain English, the landlord has two months from the day you hand the keys back, in person or by recorded delivery, to return the deposit, less only sums that are properly documented. And the same judgment continues: the deposit must be returned within one month of the handover of the keys where the check-out inventory matches the check-in inventory<\/em>, meaning the deadline shrinks to one month where the check-out inventory matches the check-in inventory. That is why landlords and agents examine the two documents line by line: the one-month track costs them half the delay.<\/p>\n

Two practical consequences follow. First, always give your forwarding address when you return the keys, because the penalty for late return does not run where the delay comes from your failure to pass on your new address: the surcharge is not due where the late return results from the tenant’s failure to pass on the new address<\/em> Second, every deduction must be justified by documents, not by assertion. The service-public guidance states that the landlord may deduct only on the basis of the entry and exit inventories compared with each other, plus invoices or estimates for the work. A bare claim for remise en peinture<\/em> (repainting) or cleaning, with no comparative inventory note and no bill, will not survive before the juge des contentieux de la protection<\/em> (the specialist housing judge in each local court), who will order restitution and apply the penalty: failing return within the deadlines, the deposit still owed to the tenant is increased by a sum equal to 10 per cent of the monthly rent excluding charges for each month of delay begun<\/em> Each month of delay begun adds ten per cent of the monthly rent excluding charges, automatically, without any formal demand.<\/p>\n

Before going to court, most deposit disputes must pass through the commission départementale de conciliation<\/em> (departmental conciliation board), a public mediation body that hears landlord-tenant disputes about deposits, inventories, charges and repairs. The statute routes these matters to the board before the judge, and a reasoned opinion from the board often unlocks payment without a hearing. In Paris, where many British tenants live, the board sits within the departmental directorate and deals with a heavy caseload of deposit retentions linked to repainting and cleaning; file early, with both inventories, the lease, the key handover receipt and photographs attached. Keep everything, because the burden of proof follows Article 1353 of the Civil Code<\/a>: « Celui qui réclame l’exécution d’une obligation doit la prouver. Réciproquement, celui qui se prétend libéré doit justifier le paiement ou le fait qui a produit l’extinction de son obligation. »<\/em> You prove the deposit and the key return; the landlord proves each deduction.<\/p>\n

B. The Inventory Comparison That Decides Almost Every Case<\/h3>\n

The état des lieux<\/em> is the contradictory, no-cost document drawn up together with the landlord or agent when the keys are handed over and again when they are returned, and it is attached to the lease. Section 3-2 of the 1989 Act provides that where the parties cannot agree, the inventory is drawn up by a commissaire de justice<\/em> (the court officer formerly called huissier de justice<\/em>), at the initiative of the more diligent party, with the cost shared equally. In practice, most British tenants sign a pre-printed form in French after a ten-minute walk-through, sometimes with photographs stapled to it. That signature matters enormously, because the Cour de cassation has just confirmed how far an agreed inventory, even an unusual one, can carry a landlord’s claim.<\/p>\n

On 6 February 2025 the Third Civil Chamber of the Cour de cassation, in judgment no. 23-21.193 (ECLI:FR:CCASS:2025:C300081), rejected a tenant’s appeal against a ruling that charged him for damage shown only by photographs. The parties had agreed, given the difficulty of describing the flat in words at check-out, to record its condition on the same document used at check-in by taking photographs, and that agreement was written in the « autres observations »<\/em> section of the exit inventory, followed by both signatures. The Court approved the reasoning: the Court held that where the exit inventory, though recording the condition through photographs by agreement of the parties, had been drawn up together and by agreement, recourse to a court officer was not mandatory, and the trial judge, assessing the evidence before him, could properly conclude that those photographs allowed the condition at entry and at exit to be compared and proved damage attributable to the tenant when the premises were handed back<\/em> In other words, an inventory established together and by agreement does not require a court officer, and photographs incorporated into it by agreement can prove damage attributable to the tenant when they allow the entry and exit condition to be compared.<\/p>\n

The lesson for a British tenant cuts both ways. Never sign an exit inventory whose boxes are left blank or marked sans objet<\/em> without adding your own dated photographs and a written reservation, because a silent exit form invites the landlord to fill the gaps later with the next tenant’s check-in report. But equally, if the entry inventory already noted worn paintwork, a tired carpet or a marked worktop, that agreed record is your shield: only a deterioration beyond the entry description can be charged to you. The Civil Code frames the same idea in two short provisions. Article 1731<\/a> provides: « S’il n’a pas été fait d’état des lieux, le preneur est présumé les avoir reçus en bon état de réparations locatives, et doit les rendre tels, sauf la preuve contraire. »<\/em> With no inventory at all, you are presumed to have received the flat in good decorative order, which is why you should insist on one. And Article 1732<\/a> adds: « Il répond des dégradations ou des pertes qui arrivent pendant sa jouissance, à moins qu’il ne prouve qu’elles ont eu lieu sans sa faute. »<\/em> You answer for damage during your occupation unless you show it happened without your fault, which covers age, wear and tear (vétusté<\/em>), hidden defects and force majeure.<\/p>\n

Normal wear is the great fault line in deposit litigation. French practice distinguishes réparations locatives<\/em> (minor day-to-day repairs on the tenant’s account, listed by a 1987 decree: tap washers, blind cords, WC seals, parquet polishing and the like) from dégradations<\/em> (damage) and from vétusté<\/em> (ageing no tenant can be billed for). Many leases now attach a grille de vétusté<\/em> (wear-and-tear schedule) agreed with tenant associations, giving each fitting a lifespan: after nine years, a carpet or paintwork has no residual value left to charge. Ask for the schedule before you sign, photograph every room in daylight at entry with a newspaper date visible, and repeat the exercise at exit with the same angles. Landlords, for their part, remain bound by the heavy duties of Article 1719<\/a>, Article 1720<\/a> and Article 1721 of the Civil Code<\/a>: to deliver a decent home, to keep it fit for the agreed use, to carry out all non-minor repairs, and to guarantee the tenant against hidden defects that prevent use, compensating any resulting loss even where the landlord did not know of the defect. A boiler that was already failing, a leaking roof or persistent damp recorded at entry cannot lawfully become a deduction at exit. Finally, keep your assurance habitation<\/em> (home insurance) current for the whole tenancy: the statute makes it compulsory, the landlord can have the lease terminated for lack of cover, and fire liability between neighbours follows Article 1733<\/a> and Article 1734<\/a>, which presume the tenant liable for fire unless accident, construction defect or spread from a neighbouring building is shown.<\/p>\n

II. When The Landlord Wants You Out: Challenging The Notice And Surviving Eviction<\/h2>\n

A French residential lease does not end because the landlord has changed his mind. For an unfurnished home the lease runs at least three years and renews automatically unless a valid congé<\/em> is served in time and in form; the tenant, by contrast, can leave at any time with proper notice. After Brexit, British tenants sometimes assume their immigration status weakens their position. It does not: once the lease is signed, the 1989 Act protects the occupant regardless of nationality, and a landlord cannot end the lease early because a carte de séjour<\/em> (residence permit) renewal is pending. What matters is the calendar, the stated ground and the occupier’s personal situation.<\/p>\n

A. The Notice That Must Arrive Six Months Early And Say Exactly Why<\/h3>\n

The landlord can refuse renewal only at the expiry date, for one of three exhaustively listed grounds: to sell (congé pour vendre<\/em>), to move in himself or house a close relative (congé pour reprise<\/em>), or for a serious and legitimate reason (motif légitime et sérieux<\/em>), typically a persistent breach such as unpaid rent. The notice must reach you at least six months before the expiry date for an unfurnished letting, by recorded delivery, by a commissaire de justice<\/em>, or by hand delivery against a signed receipt. The official guidance on landlord’s notice periods and formalities<\/a> is blunt: a letter that arrives late is simply invalid, and where the dates do not line up, the notice takes effect at the next possible term. The six-month rule is a common trap for landlords who count the posting date instead of the receipt date, so check the envelope, the acknowledgement slip and the bailiff’s record against the lease end date before accepting that you must go.<\/p>\n

A notice to sell doubles as an offer to sell to you, and the statute punishes missing words with nullity. The Paris Court of Appeal restated the rule on 9 July 2026 in a case about a Paris flat where the tenants had obtained annulment at first instance: under Articles 15-I and 15-II of the Act of 6 July 1989, a landlord who intends to sell may give notice at the expiry of the lease subject to six months’ notice; the notice operates as an offer of sale to the tenant and must, on pain of nullity, state the price and conditions of the planned sale and reproduce the statutory pre-emption provisions<\/em> The court added that where the notice is disputed, where the notice is disputed, the judge may verify that the stated ground is genuine and that the landlord’s decision not to renew is serious and legitimate<\/em>: the judge can test whether the alleged ground is real. In that case the court ultimately declared the notice valid, held the occupiers to be without any right to remain from the day after expiry, and ordered them to pay 40,444.37 euros of occupation compensation plus a continuing monthly indemnity: the court declared the notice to sell served on 28 April 2022 valid with effect at 14 December 2022<\/em> and the court held the occupiers to be without any right or title from 15 December 2022<\/em>. The judgment shows both edges of the blade: a defective notice is annulled and you stay, but an unsuccessful challenge leaves you liable for an indemnité d’occupation<\/em> (occupation payment) equal to the last rent plus charges until you actually leave.<\/p>\n

Read any notice to sell against this checklist. It must state the sale ground expressly, give the price and conditions of the planned sale, and reproduce the statutory pre-emption provisions word for word; a vague reference to the statute is not enough. You then hold a droit de préemption<\/em> (right of first refusal): the offer stands for the first two months of the notice period, and if you accept, the sale proceeds on the stated terms. If the landlord later sells to someone else at a lower price or on better terms without offering you the new deal first, the sale can be attacked. A notice to repossess must name the beneficiary, who must be the landlord himself or one of the relatives the statute lists, such as a spouse, civil partner, parent or child, and must state the family link and the intended occupation as a main home; a congé pour reprise<\/em> for a distant cousin, a company or a holiday home fails. A notice for serious and legitimate reason must describe a genuine, persistent breach, and the judge will weigh its gravity: a few days’ delay once, quickly remedied, is not the same as months of arrears. Where the stated ground is a sham, for example a pretended sale that never happens or a relative who never moves in, the tenant can claim damages under Article 1240 of the Civil Code<\/a>: « Tout fait quelconque de l’homme, qui cause à autrui un dommage, oblige celui par la faute duquel il est arrivé à le réparer. »<\/em> Keep the listing portals watched after you leave: a reletting or resale at odds with the stated ground is the classic proof of fraud.<\/p>\n

Some tenants cannot be given notice at all without a rehousing offer. Where the tenant is over 65 at the expiry date with modest income, or supports a dependent over 65 with modest household income, the lease renews automatically unless the landlord, during the notice period, offers suitable rehousing nearby corresponding to the tenant’s needs and means. The income ceilings and the rehousing radius, in the same commune, canton or within five kilometres, are detailed on the official notice page, with higher thresholds for Paris and Île-de-France. The protection falls away only where the landlord himself is over 65 or has equally modest income, which individual landlords often invoke, so verify the landlord’s situation rather than assuming the shield holds. Tenants receiving the parental-presence allowance benefit from a parallel protection. If you are in one of these categories, reply to the notice within two months by recorded delivery, setting out your age, household composition and income, and keep proof of posting: silence lets an invalid notice harden into an apparent obligation to leave.<\/p>\n

B. Paris Procedure, Eviction Shields, And Your Own Way Out<\/h3>\n

Even with a valid notice, nobody can change the locks or cut the power: only a court can order eviction, and the procedure gives you several further shields. The landlord must first have the notice or the payment order served, then summon you before the juge des contentieux de la protection<\/em> of the local court, which can grant payment time, suspend the effects of a termination clause, or verify the ground. For tenants in the capital, rent disputes, deposit claims and notice challenges go before the Paris court, and the conciliation board stage already described applies with full force: file there with a complete bundle before any summons arrives, because a pending conciliation often halts escalation. If your dispute concerns a home in Paris or the inner suburbs, add the local layer to your file: Paris applies a rent cap (encadrement des loyers<\/em>) under the 1989 Act, with a reference rent per neighbourhood set by prefectoral order, a ceiling twenty per cent above it and a floor thirty per cent below, plus only a strictly justified supplement (complément de loyer<\/em>) for exceptional features. A rent that breaches the cap can be challenged and reduced, and an excessive starting rent colours the whole relationship when the landlord later claims arrears or serves notice.<\/p>\n

The winter shield then protects against physical removal. Article L. 412-6 of the Code of Civil Enforcement Proceedings<\/a> provides: « Nonobstant toute décision d’expulsion passée en force de chose jugée et malgré l’expiration des délais accordés en vertu de l’article L. 412-3, il est sursis à toute mesure d’expulsion non exécutée à la date du 1er novembre de chaque année jusqu’au 31 mars de l’année suivante, à moins que le relogement des intéressés soit assuré dans des conditions suffisantes respectant l’unité et les besoins de la famille. »<\/em> From 1 November to 31 March, the trêve hivernale<\/em> (winter truce) suspends enforcement of eviction orders unless proper rehousing is secured, with only narrow exceptions such as squatting or rehoused occupiers. Use those months to apply for social housing, to seek the departmental mediation commission (commission de médiation DALO<\/em>) where your rehousing claim qualifies, and to ask the enforcement judge for additional time under Article L. 412-3, which can stagger departure over up to a year for rehoused tenants of good faith. Separately, married tenants and civil partners should know that Article 1751 of the Civil Code<\/a> makes the lease belong to both spouses or both civil partners jointly: notice served on only one spouse of a married couple is ineffective against the other, and on divorce or death the lease can be attributed to or continues for the survivor.<\/p>\n

Finally, remember that leaving is your easiest right and sometimes your best tactic. The tenant can terminate at any time with three months’ notice by recorded delivery, court officer or hand delivery, reduced to one month in the situations the statute lists, which include a first job, a job transfer or a new job after a job loss, health grounds, benefit status and, crucially for most British readers, any letting in a tight rental market (zone tendue<\/em>): Paris and most of Île-de-France qualify, as the official guidance on giving notice as a tenant<\/a> explains. Time your departure, photograph the exit inventory as described above, return the keys against a receipt, and notify your forwarding address in the same letter. British nationals newly arrived should also keep their immigration file consistent with their housing file: GOV.UK’s Living in France guidance<\/a> sets out the visa and residence framework that underpins a lawful long-term stay, and landlords and agents routinely ask to see a passport with a visa or a carte de séjour<\/em> before signing. For the residence side of that story, from long-stay visas to challenging a refusal, see our arrival formalities guide for British newcomers<\/a>, which completes this tenancy guide.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

A tenancy dispute in France is won on paper and on dates. Photograph the flat at entry and at exit from the same angles, never sign a blank or silent inventory, return the keys against a receipt with your new address stated, and diary the one-month, two-month and six-month deadlines from the day each letter reaches you rather than the day it was sent. Test every landlord’s notice against the three statutory grounds, the price-and-conditions wording and the pre-emption reproduction where a sale is claimed, and answer a defective notice by recorded delivery within two months. Where money is retained without comparative inventories and invoices, go through the conciliation board and then the housing judge, claiming the automatic ten per cent monthly penalty. And where the landlord seeks possession, force him through the court, raise the protected-tenant shield and the winter truce where they apply, and check the Paris rent cap where the figures look inflated. Methodical files beat loud arguments, before the board as before the judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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