Research projects

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La multipropriété foncière et immobilière
Quels effets sur les marchés locaux et quels enjeux de régulation ?

DurationFundingManagementTeam
2022 – 2025– USH
– Bordeaux Métropole

Laure CASANOVA ENAULT
Laure CASANOVA ENAULT
Guilhem BOULAY
Antoine PERIS
Loïc BONNEVAL
Clément DHERBECOURT
Martin BOCQUET
Rémi LEI
Pierre-Yves CUSSET
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At a time when the demand for housing continues to grow and the conditions of access, as well as the possibilities to produce new ones, are becoming more stringent, the development of multi-ownership deserves careful analysis. The role of multi-owners in urban development is, in fact, poorly understood and little researched, even though several indicators suggest they are causing tensions in the markets. This project aims to deepen, through an analysis of unprecedented statistical data and a survey, the understanding of land and real estate multi-owners, their assets, and their effect on local markets. The objective of the research will also be to identify the regulatory mechanisms established locally and those that would need to be implemented to control the adverse effects of this phenomenon. The areas investigated will be located in the agglomerations of Bordeaux, Lyon, and Avignon, three regions affected by residential markets of varying degrees of tension.


Qui détient les zones à enjeux de la Région Paca ?
Structure de propriété foncière urbaine et pouvoir d’aménagement au regard du ZAN

DurationFundingManagementEquipe
2023 – 2024– Région PACA
Guilhem BOULAY
Guilhem BOULAY
Laure CASANOVA ENAULT
Rémi DELATTRE
Antoine GRANDCLEMENT
Martin BOCQUET
Nicolas PELÉ

DISTRILAND

The socio-legal embeddedness of land markets
Landownership structures and regulatory systems in a comparative perspective (France-Luxembourg)

DurationFundingManagementTeam
2023 – 2026– ANR (France)
– FNR (Luxembourg)
– Laure CASANOVA ENAULT (France)
– Antoine PACCOUD (Luxembourg)
Laure CASANOVA ENAULT
Antoine PACCOUD
Guilhem BOULAY
Antoine GRANDCLEMENT
Markus HESSE
Antoine PERIS

The DISTRILAND project, funded by the ANR (French National Research Agency) and the FNR (National Research Fund of Luxembourg), investigates the socio-legal embedding of land markets using a comparative approach of property structures and regulatory systems in France and Luxembourg.

The project stems from the observation of a rise in inequalities in residential markets, a flexibilization of the tax regime, and increasing difficulties for public actors to intervene in terms of housing production and market regulation. In this context, the distribution of land assets and its socio-economic implications becomes crucial. Based on an analysis of cadastral and tax data, as well as a series of interviews, we will study urban transformations (housing production, planning, etc.) through the lens of interrelationships between land structures, regulatory systems, and institutional structures.

Although linked, France and Luxembourg diverge on several points: the structure of landholding, its taxation, and the legal treatment of property rights. Luxembourg has undergone industrial and financial revolutions without affecting its landholding structure, which has been marked by a high degree of concentration since the 19th century. In the absence of proactive intervention by public actors in the markets, and given low taxation on land assets and inheritances, access to land has become a central political issue in the country. In France, despite stronger land regulation, public land control is diminishing due to privatizations to generate local wealth and/or facilitate housing production. It is also constrained by the increasing concentration of land assets by households, both attached to this symbolic asset and to the potential value reserve it represents.

Thus, the socio-legal embedding of land markets raises questions about the ability of local authorities to regulate land. The project will be the first international comparative approach to the spatial, historical, and tax structure of land ownership based on micro-data.

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