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Coronavirus: France could build 100,000 fewer homes in 2020

2020-05-04T15:48:13.412Z


Social actors, such as CDC Habitat or Action Logement, are called to the rescue.


A recovery, but still a lot of uncertainty. As soon as containment was implemented in France, the government had pushed for a rapid restart of construction sites. In pure loss: during his intervention, on April 19, Édouard Philippe admitted that 88% of the sites were still stopped. But the situation is changing, especially in housing. " After a period of almost total shutdown, it is estimated that 80% of our sites will have resumed activity by the beginning of May, to rise to more than 90% before the end of May ", specifies Nordine Hachemi, the CEO of promoter Kaufman & Broad. The observation is similar at the level of the profession. Alexandra François-Cuxac, president of the Federation of Real Estate Developers (FPI), estimates that half of the projects had resumed at the end of April.

Read also: Real estate: 100,000 housing purchase projects to be concluded before the almost total market stoppage

The attention of property developers - and all those involved in construction related to new housing - is now focused on the next step: housing that should be sold

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Source: lefigaro

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