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Paris is a notaire-and-DPE market with reference rents inside the périphérique. Haussmannian, post-war and petite couronne are three products, not one skyline.

Notaire-verified path
DPE & diagnostics
3D map
≈7%acquisition costs on an existing home
2contracts: compromis, then acte authentique
10 daysstatutory buyer cooling-off (loi SRU)
DPE A–Genergy label required in every file
What a purchase really costs

€400,000 home in Paris

Droits de mutation (DMTO) (5.8%)
€23,200
Émoluments du notaire (≈0.8%)
€3,200
Formalités & débours (≈0.4%)
€1,600
Cash needed at the notaire
€428,000

≈ +7% over the price. Roughly +7% on an existing home — that is the famous frais de notaire, most of which is departmental tax rather than the notaire’s fee. A new-build runs nearer 2–3% because VAT is already inside the price. Several départements, Paris included, applied the 2025 uplift toward ~6.3% DMTO — confirm the rate on your acte, not on a blog post.

Rentals run on rules

The rent side, in three lines

  • Deposit caps at one month’s rent unfurnished and two months furnished (loi du 6 juillet 1989).
  • Encadrement des loyers fixes a reference rent per m² in Paris, Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Marseille — a lease above it is challengeable.
  • A DPE rating of G has been barred from new lettings since 2025 and F follows in 2028 — the energy label is a rentability test, not a sticker.

Qualitative anchors only. Live reference rents come from the préfecture’s published grid, never a hardcoded table.

Cities

Six metros, one notarial machine

The deed is national; the money is not. DMTO is voted département by département, and rent control only bites in the designated zones tendues. Each city guide carries its own number.

Encadrement des loyers sets a reference rent per square metre by quartier and room count; a lease above it needs a justified complément de loyer or it is challengeable. The DPE decides whether you can let at all — class G is already barred from new lettings.

A chambre de bonne, a parking space and a lift are not rounding errors on the yield in a city where the median flat is under 60 m². Copropriété charges and the état daté belong in the file before the compromis, not after.

This page stays a buying briefing until verified Paris listings are live. sivrce does not publish a French listing it cannot source.

FAQ

Can foreigners buy in Paris?
Yes. Expect a notaire, roughly 7% acquisition costs on an existing flat, and a French settlement path. No extra foreigner tax.
Does rent control really bite?
Inside Paris, yes. Reference rents apply to most new and renewed leases and a tenant can demand a reduction retroactively. Underwrite the grid, not short-let math.

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