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.
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