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OLIVIER BRANE me, Honorary Lawyer, specialist in real estate law, the slippage of managing agents fees
1. Why the sudden criticism against trustee fees that are charged by the overcharge of costs not always very clearly expressed in their contracts?
They can still catch up by making energy savings in buildings!
The press has echoed the excesses of the managing agents who are often additional fees that are not covered by the Contract General Assembly voted ...
In 2007 the union of estate agents had yet agreed with consumer associations to identify what was to have a contract trustee to avoid slippage.
This agreement became official notice of the National Consumer Council (NCC) dated September 27, 2007 which, however, not binding. Surveys conducted by the Consumer (CLCP) or the journal THE INDIVIDUAL show that despite the efforts some trustees continue to charge beyond the contract.
The legislator therefore likely to become mandatory CNC notice! There are 10 000 FRANCE property managers for 7.6 million condominium or a sales professional with more than 4 billion euros in 2007.
2. The profession of joint property is again in the crosshairs of Justice and government?
The newspaper THE WORLD 23 March 2009 the major property management groups are FONCIA (Groupe Banque Populaire), which manages 1.1 million lots, LAMY, (subsidiary of NEXITY) which manages 850,000 lots and URBANIA (ex VENDOME ROME ) to 451,000 batches followed IMMODE FRANCE (subsidiary of CREDIT ESTATE OF FRANCE) to 270,000 lots to 200,000 lots and CITYA ICADE (eg GFF) with 157,000 lots.
The economic impact of this profession is tes important, the crisis weakens this part of the real estate industry and the prices tend to skid at a time when we talk about reduction of the condominium precisely thanks to energy savings into condominiums.
Some trustees, the increases are needed to monetize a cabinet must employ many people of quality.
The average prices of € 146 the lot, but sometimes there are trustees who practice € 250 the lot also special services that are outside the scope of the agreement had been reached in 2007 with professional organizations.
We will readily believe that the increase in costs and the quality of employees required a trustee to be paid properly encumber the Cabinet fees incompressible.
However, the profession of trustee must change.
3. A new way of doing the job of co-ownership is she being born?
Like what happens in countries that are more developed than ours in terms of energy savings and sustainable development, the trustee has some new features on which the French Cabinet should consider.
It is known that the building is responsible for almost half of the emission of greenhouse gases and we know the device's impressive Grenelle Environment to stop.
It is the joint property to apply this device to save energy provided that the control which is not always the case.
The Co-ownership is expected to become a kind of legal technical or financial engineer to be able to analyze the energy savings to be made in a building: oil, gas, electricity, water.
Energy performance diagnostics and later the energy performance contracts are tools that are now fully control the trustees.
They no longer be content to manage but will hunt for grants, zero interest loans and will compete as they are obliged companies working in renewable energy: solar photovoltaic, geothermal energy with new heat pumps, low-power boiler etc. ... A facelift should not be done blindly as it must now be made with materials that will protect the building against heat colanders they once were.
This is the price that the profession of trustee will be re-gilded. Nothing would prevent then to agree with the trustee of a special fee for the new work that will involve lowering energy bills of buildings that is to say to lower condo fees.
4. What can a site like ECOCOPRO.COM to work on the load reductions and C02 emissions?
ECOCOPRO.COM contributes to the development of LOAD SAVINGS CONTRACTS under which the financial gain obtained by reducing energy bills will be split between shared ownership and the management agent in proportions that will determine the outcome a technical and financial audit.
The green economy, the "green business" and must return to the offices of joint property which is essential to their survival: the eco-and condominiums will be managed by trustees who are eco labeled as much as the buildings.
