Investing in Strasbourg from abroad

No, not at present. Strasbourg is not on the list of capped municipalities published by Service Public. The Eurométropole council voted on 9 October 2026 a motion to be able to apply this scheme, so the situation may change. In a tense zone, the rent increase between two tenants remains limited if the home has been vacant for less than 18 months.

It is an authorisation the City must give before each new lease, since 1 November 2026, for private homes in the Gare district built before 2006. The application is made online and the City replies within one month. Without authorisation, the fine can reach €5,000, and €15,000 for a repeat offence. Your property manager can handle it.

It is very difficult. If the home is not your main residence, you need a change-of-use authorisation. In the wider city centre, it requires compensation. Elsewhere, an individual can obtain a first authorisation without compensation, personal and limited to six years, renewable up to nine. A company must always compensate. Long-term letting remains the realistic route.

Look first at the Krutenau and the Esplanade, around the main campus of the University of Strasbourg: according to INSEE, 85% of households in the Krutenau are tenants and one resident of the Esplanade in three is aged 18 to 24. The Petite France and the station district also have many small homes. Above all, check the travel time to the campus in question.

From 2027, a vacancy tax replaces the former tax on vacant dwellings. In the municipalities on the list set by the decree of 25 August 2026, a home vacant for at least a year is taxed at 17% of its rental value in the first year, then 34%. Occupation for more than 90 consecutive days in the previous year allows you to avoid it.

Yes, as everywhere in mainland France. Since 2025, only homes rated A to F can be offered for rent. A rating of A to E will be required from 2028, then A to D in 2034. Strasbourg’s stock includes many old buildings: have a DPE carried out before the offer and cost the insulation.

In Alsace-Moselle, sales do not appear in the public DVF database. The notaries publish their own prices: in Strasbourg, older apartments sold for a median price of €3,368 per m² between October 2025 and September 2026 (1,384 sales), from €2,163 in Hautepierre to €4,904 around the town hall depending on the district.

Yes. Strasbourg is a high-demand area and remains one under the decree of 25 August 2026, which applies from 1 January 2027. Consequences: one month’s notice for the tenant, a re-letting rent limited to that of the previous tenant except in specific cases, and a tax on homes empty for at least one year.

In 2026, the municipal property tax rate is 37.44%, plus 4.60% for the intermunicipality. These rates apply to half the cadastral rental value of the home: ask the seller for their latest property tax notice to know the amount.

For a 40 m² furnished two-room apartment bought for €134,720 and let for €728 a month, about 5.6% of the price remains after tax if you are covered by a scheme in the European Union, the EEA, Switzerland or the United Kingdom without depending on a mandatory French scheme, and 5.2% otherwise, under the micro-BIC regime and at the minimum rate of 20%. Charges, property tax and purchase costs are not deducted.

The capital gain is taxed in France at 19%, plus social contributions, and the notary withholds this tax at the time of sale, with an exemption from tax after 22 years and from social contributions after 30 years of ownership.