MeilleurCopro, or how to reduce your co-ownership charges?

From a thorn, to make a rosebush

It sometimes happens that a simple individual anecdote turns into the genesis of a more global movement, capable of bringing about a paradigm shift.

We are in 2015 and Edouard-Jean Clouet acquires an apartment in the Paris region.

Everything is going very well, except for one particular point that greatly annoys the new owner;

the amount of condominium fees, far too high considering the level of services offered by the various service providers and by the trustee.

From that moment, Edouard-Jean Clouet takes on his personal time to go through all the contracts, from the maintenance of the commons to the elevator operator, including the syndic or the maintenance of the central heating,

Surprise!

Co-owners could pay 60% less for the same level of service.

At the next general meeting, Edouard-Jean Clouet presents his conclusions to the other owners and the decision is taken without delay to reduce the amount of the charges for each co-owner of the building.

From there is born a simple idea.

Why not reproduce the same scheme in other buildings, for other co-owners who must also pay far too much for their services?

It is the birth of MeilleurCopro, a multi-technical broker able to put trustees and service providers in competition for the good of the co-ownership.

The benchmark comparator for changing trustees

Since then,

has made it its mission to help co-owners in trouble with their trustee or the amount of their monthly charges, by intervening in both old housing and new programs. In fact,

offers all co-owners wishing to change trustees an online trustee comparator generating offers for free and instantly. Following a simulation, the co-owners are called back by an expert from the company, in order to perfectly qualify their needs. The co-owners are then put in contact with two or three trustees more in line with their unique issues. In doing so, the start-up responds to a very strong expectation of co-owners and establishes itself as the reference comparator of trustees.

Among the syndic offers made by

, there are all types of trustees, from the traditional property manager working mainly in proximity, to the imposing group capable of managing the problems of large complexes, through new trustees who are followers of new technologies, and even by self-management platforms for buildings in cooperative management.

All categories of professionals are welcome, the objective being to provide the widest possible range of solutions able to meet the expectations of all condominium profiles.

But much more than a comparator to change trustees, the startup goes further by offering a complete audit of condominium fees.

A free audit to reduce your condominium fees

Thanks to its online load comparator, MeilleurCopro is able to provide information to co-owners of apartments throughout France. A few minutes are enough to complete a form requiring only the necessary information (number of apartments in the residence, presence or not of a caretaker, lift, floor of the accommodation, year of construction of the building, etc.). On the basis of this information, the start-up calculates a feasible saving, by keeping the current trustee or by changing the trustee.

If the pool of savings is real, the startup team invites the union council to commission it to analyze all the co-ownership contracts. The syndic contract, cleaning of common areas, maintenance of the elevator, maintenance of green spaces or energy supply are thus scrutinized. On the basis of this analysis, MeilleurCopro advises either to keep the service providers in place, or to change them in order to aim for enhanced services at a lower level of charges! As the start-up is financed from the savings, the support costs nothing for the co-owners, who will have benefited from a complete expertise on the operation of their building.

Much more than a call for competition, MeilleurCopro guarantees the satisfaction of the co-owners for 3 years on the service providers selected, thanks to a process of accompaniment supervising the latter.

In the event of dissatisfaction with a service provider, the union council can contact the brokerage company to organize mediation.

Most of the time, this process makes it possible to find a solution to the problem observed or a response to the misunderstanding raised.

If the problem is resolved, the relationship between the co-owners and the service provider is strengthened.

Otherwise, the co-owners have the power to break the contract of the said service provider, free of charge, thanks to the conditions negotiated by MeilleurCopro!

Best Copro

is active on both new and old

In a logic of support for owners of apartments in residence, MeilleurCopro is not limited to old buildings.

Indeed, since 2019, the start-up also proposes to evaluate the cost of the charges of the new programs being marketed.

A real plus for first-time buyers, who are now able to estimate the cost of monthly condominium charges and therefore integrate this data into their budget.

The fact is that its load estimation tools are extremely reliable, like “Qualicharges”, a technology developed by MeilleurCopro for property developers using CERQUAL QUALITEL's NF HABITAT – NF HABITAT HQE certifications.

To date,

has been able to compete for more than 3,000 contracts (trustee, cleaning, insurance, gas, etc.) on several hundred condominiums from various property developers such as Bouygues Immobilier, Nexity, Kaufman & Broad, Constructa, Legendre or even Lamotte.

It's a safe bet that the model will flourish.

All it took was one anecdote, a man upset by the amount of his condominium fees, for the vision of this world that we thought was definitively opaque and closed to open up to new horizons of negotiation... To be pondered without a doubt.