{"id":29251,"date":"2025-09-02T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/commercial-lease-no-tenants-preferential-right-in-the-event-of-a-global-sale-of-the-building-even-if-it-includes-only-one-commercial-premises\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:31:47","slug":"commercial-lease-no-tenants-preferential-right-in-the-event-of-a-global-sale-of-the-building-even-if-it-includes-only-one-commercial-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/commercial-lease-no-tenants-preferential-right-in-the-event-of-a-global-sale-of-the-building-even-if-it-includes-only-one-commercial-premises\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial lease: no tenant&#8217;s preferential right in the event of a global sale of the building, even if it includes only one commercial premises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cass. 3rd civ., June 19, 2025, no. 23-19.292 FS-B and no. 23-17.604 FS-B<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/commercial-contracts-drafting-negotiating-and-managing-disputes\/contrats-commerciaux-2\/\">preferential right of the commercial tenant<\/a><\/strong> (C. com. art. L 145-46-1), which in principle enables tenants to acquire the premises in which they run their business as a priority, is excluded in the case of a global sale of a building including commercial premises.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cour de cassation clarifies that this exception applies even when the building comprises a single commercial premises.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A long-awaited clarification<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The text, written in the plural, gave rise to doubts: should we consider that the exception applied only to sales of buildings comprising several commercial premises?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French Supreme Court&#8217;s answer is in the negative, adopting a broad interpretation of the exception. As a result, the <strong>overall transfer of a building<\/strong> &#8211; even when it comprises a single business premises &#8211; remains excluded from the scope of the tenant&#8217;s preferential right. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling of June 19, 2025 puts an end to any uncertainty: from now on, no purge is required in the case of a global sale of a building including a single commercial premises.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practical commentary<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This ruling is a welcome clarification for real estate practitioners and operators.<br\/>It confirms that the <strong>commercial tenant&#8217;s preferential right<\/strong> cannot be invoked in the event of a global sale, even when the building contains only one commercial premises.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This gives lessors <strong>greater legal certainty<\/strong> when implementing such operations, with the possible support of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/droit-des-affaires\/\">business lawyer in Toulon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal references<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000045212563\" rel=\"noopener\">French Commercial Code, article L. 145-46-1<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/juri\/id\/JURITEXT000051823295\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/juri\/id\/JURITEXT000051823295\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Court of Cassation, 3rd Civil Division, June 19, 2025<\/strong>, No. 23-19.292 FS-B and No. 23-17.604 FS-B<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass. 3rd civ., June 19, 2025, no. 23-19.292 FS-B and no. 23-17.604 FS-B The preferential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251","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=29251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}