{"id":29239,"date":"2025-09-24T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/converting-offices-into-condominium-units-more-flexible-majority-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:03:02","slug":"converting-offices-into-condominium-units-more-flexible-majority-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/converting-offices-into-condominium-units-more-flexible-majority-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting office space into condominium units: more flexible majority rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Law no. 2025-541 of June 16, 2025, articles 8 and 9<\/strong><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/jorf\/id\/JORFTEXT000051745438\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Journal of June 17, 2025 &#8211; text no. 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faced with the <strong>housing crisis<\/strong> and growing office vacancies, <strong>converting business premises into housing<\/strong> is a pragmatic solution.<br\/>Until recently, the <strong>legal system governing co-ownership<\/strong> was a major obstacle, requiring a <strong>unanimous<\/strong> vote by the co-owners.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>law of June 16, 2025<\/strong> changes the situation by <strong>modifying the majority rules<\/strong> applicable to change-of-use decisions at general meetings.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change of use made easier at last<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to this reform, any conversion of <strong>office<\/strong> space <strong>into residential units<\/strong>, where the co-ownership regulations or the purpose of the building precluded it, required <strong>the unanimous agreement of the co-owners<\/strong><em>(article 9 of the law of July 10, 1965<\/em>).<br\/>This rule was often <strong>prohibitive<\/strong>, blocking redevelopment projects, even in the event of prolonged vacancy.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Henceforth, conversion may be authorized by the <strong>simple majority stipulated in article 24<\/strong> of the same law.<br\/>This is the smallest majority for collective decisions in co-ownership.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This legislative change aims to <strong>unblock frozen situations<\/strong>, while maintaining <strong>minimal control by the general meeting of<\/strong> co-owners.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read also:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/droit-immobilier\/\">Real estate law in Toulon<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/contentieux\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Disputes and litigation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A well-defined scope of application<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <strong>relaxation<\/strong> applies only to the <strong>conversion of office space into housing<\/strong>.<br\/><strong>Commercial premises<\/strong> are <strong>expressly excluded<\/strong>, in order to preserve :<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the <strong>vitality of town centers<\/strong>,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>access to local services<\/strong> for residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transformation remains subject to two conditions:<\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The absence of an opposition clause in the co-ownership by-laws.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A building destination compatible with <strong>residential use<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Consequences for load sharing<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Changes in the use of private areas have a direct impact on the <strong>apportionment of condominium charges<\/strong>.<br\/>Until now, such changes had to be approved by an <strong>absolute majority (article 25)<\/strong> of the 1965 law.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ensure consistency with article 9, the <strong>law of June 16, 2025<\/strong> now lowers this requirement to a <strong>simple majority (article 24)<\/strong>, but only when the conversion concerns <strong>offices converted into housing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What this means for condominium owners and investors<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These adjustments provide a concrete response to the need for <strong>property reallocation<\/strong>, while maintaining a <strong>balance between management flexibility and protection of co-owners&#8217; rights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For <strong>real estate investors<\/strong>, this opens the door to :<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a <strong>valuation of<\/strong> vacant properties,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the possibility of <strong>reducing rental vacancies<\/strong>,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>better adaptation of the real estate stock to current needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For <strong>managing agents and co-owners<\/strong>, this means increased vigilance with regard to :<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>updating condominium by-laws<\/strong>,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>management of <strong>new expense allocations<\/strong>,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>compliance with <strong>legal procedures at shareholders&#8217; meetings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udd17 <strong>Useful external resources :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/jorf\/id\/JORFTEXT000051745438\" rel=\"noopener\">Full text of the law of June 16, 2025 on L\u00e9gifrance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/loda\/id\/JORFTEXT000000880200\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Law of July 10, 1965 on co-ownership<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law no. 2025-541 of June 16, 2025, articles 8 and 9Official Journal of June 17,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}