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You are moving back, the children have started school, or the household budget has changed: the contract with your nanny, cleaner or home carer is coming to an end. In France, a household employer paying through CESU or Pajemploi is a real employer, and the end of the contract follows a written procedure with its own deadlines, notice periods and an indemnity. The rules come from the collective agreement for household employers (IDCC 3239), not from the general dismissal chapter of the Labour Code. Here is the sequence, article by article, and the documents both parties will hold at the end.

Version 1.1.0 of Rent — Lease & Short-Term (Rent — Bail & Courte Durée in French) is the biggest under-the-hood release the app has had: it moves to a new rendering engine that makes everything feel faster and smoother. Around that foundation, the August 2026 wave adds the features self-managing landlords asked for after 1.0.10: an e-signature queue you can actually trust (honest status chips, signed documents that leave the queue on their own), a tenant home-insurance reminder card that appears at each lease anniversary, an iPhone widget with the month's rents on your Home and Lock Screen, and a round of legal-accuracy fixes — including one that matters: the acte de cautionnement is no longer offered for e-signature, because French law (article 2297) requires the guarantor's handwritten mention on paper. Everything from 1.0.10 stays: free rent receipts on every account (up to 20 a month), property photos, the monthly wrap-up. And the pricing model hasn't moved — first property free, one-time packs, never a subscription.

Ask a chatbot whether Lyon is in a zone tendue, or what notice period applies to your tenant, and you will get a confident answer — which may be quietly wrong. French administrative rules change by decree, by quarter and by commune, faster than any AI model's training data. In 2026 there is a better way: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets your assistant call real, maintained legal calculators instead of guessing. Here is what that means in practice, what you can already do free of charge, and where the limits are.

Every France–Switzerland frontalier who works from home now lives with two numbers: 40% and 49.9%. They look interchangeable. They are not. The 40% ceiling comes from the Franco-Swiss tax avenant signed on 27 June 2023 and decides which country taxes your salary from 1 January 2026. The 49.9% ceiling comes from the EU/EFTA social-security framework agreement in force since 1 July 2023 and decides which country's social system you contribute to. Two legal instruments, two reference bases, two sets of consequences — and one shared practical problem: you can only show you are under either line if you actually count your days. This guide is the counting how-to: what goes into each count, how mission days are treated, and a simple monthly method that holds up if anyone asks. It is general information drawn from official French, Swiss and EU sources — not personalised tax or legal advice — and for anything specific to your canton or contract it points you to the competent bodies.

If you own a French property and rent it out — or planned to start this summer — three sets of rules moved under your feet, and July 2026 is when they all become visible at once. The loi Le Meur tax split showed up for the first time in this spring's income declaration (it applies to 2025 income). The national registration teleservice for short-term lets came into force on 20 May 2026. And the DPE letting-ban calendar keeps tightening, now reaching tourist rentals too. This guide walks a non-resident or expat owner through what actually changed, what it costs to ignore, and what to check before the next tenant or guest arrives. It is general information, not legal or tax advice.

You've found a new flat, accepted a job in another city, or you're leaving France altogether — and now you need to give notice on your French rental. How long is the préavis? The honest answer is "it depends, precisely": three months by default for an unfurnished lease, one month for a furnished one, and one month for an unfurnished lease if your commune or your personal situation qualifies — under conditions most blog posts get subtly wrong. Get the reduced notice wrong and you owe up to two extra months of rent; get the delivery wrong and the clock never starts at all. This guide walks through the 2026 rules under art. 15 of loi n°89-462 as an expat tenant actually experiences them: which notice applies, the zone tendue list subtlety that trips up even French sites, when the countdown really begins, the exact end-date arithmetic, and how to claim the one-month notice without accidentally forfeiting it. This is general information, not personalised legal advice — verify your own case against the official sources linked throughout.