Financing and grants
A restoration carried out to the rules of the art gives access to schemes that an ordinary render does not obtain. Some apply by themselves, others must be applied for — and one of them must be applied for before the work begins.
Four levers, depending on your situation
None of them is automatic for everyone. The simplest thing is to discuss them when the quote is drawn up: that is when all of them can still be used.
Reduced VAT
10% on works to improve a home completed more than two years ago. 5.5% where they include an energy-improvement element.
Nothing to apply for: the rate is applied directly to our quotes and invoices, on the basis of a certificate we hand you to sign.
Payment as the work progresses
A restoration site is paid in stages, as the work advances — never in a single sum at the order.
The schedule of payments is set out in writing on the quote, item by item. You know in advance when and why.
Heritage Foundation label
For a property of character that is not a historic monument, in a commune of fewer than 20,000 inhabitants or in a remarkable heritage site.
It covers external works — façade, roof, joinery — and allows a deduction of part of their cost from your taxable income.
Full details of the label →A report for your insurer
Where the damage results from an insured event — drought and the shrinkage-heave of clays, water damage, ground movement — part of the works may be covered.
We draw up an item-by-item detailed quote and a dated, photographed technical description, readable by the person your insurer appoints. We do not deal with your insurer in your place.
The Heritage Foundation label
It does not concern the company: it concerns your property. Many mas, bastides and village houses in our communes qualify without their owners knowing it.
What exactly is it?
A recognition granted by the Fondation du patrimoine to a private property that does not benefit from the historic monuments scheme, for a defined programme of external works, after the opinion of the Architect of the Buildings of France.
It is neither a listing nor an extra constraint: it is recognition of a building's character, combined with a tax advantage on external works. More than 1,600 private sites were labelled in 2023 — the scheme is little known, not exceptional.
Does my property qualify?
Three conditions, all of which must be met:
- a private property — an individual or an SCI — with distinctive architectural qualities, and visible from the public highway or made accessible;
- situated in a commune of fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, or in a remarkable heritage site, or in a classified site;
- a programme of external works.
In our communes — Le Thor, Boulbon, and most of the villages of the Alpilles, the Luberon, the Comtat Venaissin and the Uzège area — the population condition is almost always met. And the towns that exceed it are, for many of them, in a remarkable heritage site.
To know: outside these areas, a private uninhabitable building characteristic of rural heritage — dovecote, washhouse, bread oven, hut — may remain eligible.
Which works are covered?
Façade, roof, external joinery, parks and gardens, provided they are carried out to the rules of the art in order to preserve or restore the authenticity of the building: lime renders, genoises, chimney stacks, surrounds, sills, joinery.
What does it change for me?
The label allows a deduction of part of the cost of the works from your taxable income — from 50 to 100% depending on the grants obtained — spread over three years, together with a grant from the Foundation and, where applicable, from the partner local authorities.
The exact terms depend on your situation: property occupied or let, rental income or global income, held in your own name or in an SCI. We direct you to the Foundation and to your tax adviser, who alone can cost it out.
When must it be applied for?
That is why we raise it from the first visit, and never at the end of the site. The label is granted for three years, which leaves time for a long site or one phased over two tax years.
Who does what?
What we do
- Look, from the first visit, at whether your property meets the criteria
- Draw up the description of works and the itemised quote, item by item, that the Foundation expects
- Photograph the existing condition
- Prepare the technical file that the Architect of the Buildings of France will examine, with the vocabulary and the techniques expected
- Answer the technical questions of the delegation during the review
What we do not do
- Submit the application in your place — the application is yours
- Replace your tax adviser
- Guarantee the award of the label, or the amount of the deduction
- Seek out or present financing
In other words: the application belongs to you, we make it defensible.
We inform and we direct
We tell you which schemes exist, we identify those to which your property may open a right, and we produce the technical documents they require — a compliant quote, a description of works, photographs of the existing condition, completion certificates.
We present no credit institution, we compare no loan offer, we complete no borrower's file, and we do not take the place of your tax adviser. Those professions are regulated, and they are not ours.
Everything is decided at the quote
The label is applied for before the work begins, VAT is calculated at the quote, and the insurance report is drawn up before the repair. Once the scaffolding is up, some of these levers are lost. The first advice visit is free and without obligation.
Let us talk about it before you start.
The first advice visit is free and without obligation. We work in Avignon, in the Alpilles, the Luberon, the Comtat Venaissin, the Uzège area and the Golden Triangle of Provence — and further afield depending on the project.
+33 6 11 75 35 57entrepriseeg3@gmail.com
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