Then this sector is still an increase of 9

The rally seen in France since the beginning of the year for the construction of new housing continues but the recovery remains fragile, at the time where several support measures for the building sector will disappear or be reduced. The number of starts of new homes in France rose by 14.6 for the March-April-May period, compared to the same period a year earlier, while the number of building permits was 41.9, yesterday announced the Department of ecology, energy, sustainable development and the sea. "These encouraging results demonstrate that the Government has paid off." "We will however need to remain attentive to what this resumption enrols in the long term", told AFP the Secretary of State for housing, Benoist Apparu.

In the past twelve months (June, 2009 to May 2010), the number of new construction starts is always, with 300.331 units, just above the symbolic cap of the 300,000, but it is still far from the desired objective of the Government of 500,000 new homes per year.

The number of building permits, he greatly increased ( 41.9), to 101.156 units, between March and may, always from the corresponding month of 2009, result inter alia of the boom in sales ( 33) by the sponsors in 2009. But they worry for the future, while their sales have already started to lose steam, rising to 5.3 in the first quarter of 2010 over a year earlier.

"Change of rule".

Pass-land, a system enabling households to acquire the land after it built housing, which must be completed at the end of the year, "is today questioned", denounced in a statement the Union of the houses of French (UMF), which includes the majority of individual builders.

The will of the Government to decrease from early July of 20,000 euros ceilings of "amounts to Pass-land is still give, after the judgment of the doubling of the PTZ loan to zero rate, Editor's note July 1, a new knife to social accession to property", regretted the UMF.

"This rule change is not without difficulties to households with a current project and who will see their accession relitigation, as well as the professionals whose activity may be weakened by the deadweight loss of operations for which they had already invested," deplores the Union chaired by Christian Louis-Victor. "In 2009 and 2010, 85 of sold new homes benefited from one or several State aid." "If too much changes, customers will not be more creditworthy", thus warned Alain Dinin, the pattern of Nexity, in an interview with the "voices" (June 14 Edition). Another reason for concern: the fall of the collective may housing starts. "Then this sector is still an increase of 9.4 over the last three months, it is decreased by 19.1 for the single month of may, including reflection of social rental housing problems," said Michel Mouillart, Professor of Economics at Paris-X Nanterre, questioned by AFP.

As evidence that the President of the French Federation of building, Didier Ridoret, to predict for 2010 a new decline of 3.1 of the turnover of the profession after a fall of 7.8 in 2009. And it could be even more important if the Government changes the rate of VAT for the work of renovation-maintenance, currently 5.5, and which costs approximately EUR 5 billion of tax depreciation per year to the State.