You are contesting a rent revision during the lease

You are contesting a rent revision during the lease

 

During the rental, the rent can only be revised if a clause in the contract provides for it. It then changes, upward or downward, like the benchmark rent index published by INSEE, even if the contract is old and still refers to the construction cost index.

 

When the contract is content to mention the revision of the rent without any further details on its terms, the revision takes place on the anniversary date of the contract, taking into account the variation of the last index known on that date.

 

The website of the National Consumer Institute (www.conso.net) provides Internet users with a tool called "Rent calculator" allowing them to automatically calculate a new rent, including when it has not been. revised for several years.

 

Dear,

 

You wrote to me to inform me that my rent increased from (…) to (…) euros. This increase surprises me because it is greater than what the law allows.

 

I would remind you that during the lease, the rent can only be increased if a clause in the contract so provides, and in the same proportions as the average annual change in the benchmark rent index published by INSEE ( Law of 6 July 1989, article 17, d).

 

The revision clause of our contract thus provides that the rent may be revised according to the variation in the index for the (…) quarter. It therefore now amounts to:

 

[Current rent x new index] / index for the previous year = (…) euros.

 

I am awaiting your agreement on this calculation to send you a check for this amount.

 

Please accept, Madam, Sir, the expression of my best regards.

 

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