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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.

If you live in France and work for a Swiss employer, the days you spend working from your kitchen table are no longer a legal grey zone. Since 1 January 2026 a permanent framework governs how much you can telework from France before your tax situation moves. The headline number is 40%: up to 40% of your annual working time can be performed as telework from your home in France without changing the country that taxes your salary or costing you your frontalier status. This guide explains the 40% tax rule from the avenant signed on 27 June 2023 (published in France by [décret n° 2025-838](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000052129841)), the separate 49.9% social-security threshold that people constantly confuse with it, what happens if you cross either line, the new employer reporting duties, and how to plan a realistic telework week. Figures and dates are drawn from official French and Swiss sources — this is information, not personalised tax advice, so verify your own case before acting.

If you live in France and work in Switzerland, your children's family allowances are governed not by one country but by a European coordination rule that decides who pays first and who tops up. The result surprises many frontaliers: Swiss allowances are usually higher than French ones, so the money often flows the opposite way to what people expect. This guide explains the priority rule under [Article 68 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004](https://www.cleiss.fr/docs/textes/883-04/t3-8.html), the Swiss allowance amounts canton by canton, when the French complément différentiel is actually paid by the CAF, what happens when both parents work in different countries, and the exact paperwork — your Swiss employer's caisse plus the CAF and the E411 form. Figures are 2026 values; treat them as information, not personalised advice, and confirm the current amounts with your canton's caisse and your CAF before you rely on them.

When a France-resident cross-border worker loses a job in Switzerland, the first question is rarely emotional — it is administrative: who pays my unemployment, Switzerland or France? The Swiss salary was high, the contributions went to a Swiss fund, yet for a genuine daily commuter the answer is France. That rule flows from [EU Regulation (EC) No 883/2004](https://www.cleiss.fr/docs/textes/883-04/t3-6.html), Article 65, which sends a wholly unemployed frontier worker to the unemployment system of the country of residence. This guide walks the whole path: why France pays, the make-or-break line between full and partial unemployment, how to register with France Travail and obtain the Swiss PD U1 attestation, how your former Swiss salary becomes a French benefit (and where the ceiling bites), the 3-to-5-month reimbursement Switzerland owes France, and the 2026 reform that could shift the bill to the country of work. Every figure below is information, not personalised advice — verify the current numbers at the official source before acting.

Every year, tens of thousands of French residents who work in Geneva or Vaud watch a flat impôt à la source (withholding tax) come off their Swiss payslip, with none of the real deductions a Swiss resident enjoys. The quasi-resident status (statut de quasi-résident) is the legal route that closes that gap: it lets a non-resident who earns almost all of their income in Switzerland be taxed like an ordinary resident, deducting pension buy-ins, childcare, alimony and more. It is not automatic, it must be requested every year by 31 March, and, crucially, it does not help everyone. This guide decodes the 90% rule that gates eligibility, the deductions a taxation ordinaire ultérieure (TOU) unlocks, why Geneva and Vaud frontaliers are not in the same boat, and how to file with the AFC or ACI. Start from the official [impots.gouv.fr frontalier pages](https://www.impots.gouv.fr/international-particulier/salaries-en-suisse); this is information, not personalised advice, so verify every figure at the source before acting.