Real estate diagnosis on airport noise

Verified 21 June 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Do you want to sell or rent a property near an airport? You need to perform a diagnosis Airport noise (or airborne noise). We are taking stock of the regulations.

The Noise diagnosis (or state of air noise nuisance) is a document which makes it possible to inform the future purchaser or tenant of an item of property of the existence of air noise nuisance.

As the owner, you must realize obligatory a Noise diagnosis for all sale or rental of your real estate located in a so-called zone airport noise exposure.

To know if the property is located in a so-called area noise exposure at airports., you should consult the online noise exposure plan (SEP):

Consult Airport Noise Exposure Plans (SEPs)

You can also contact the City Hall to find out.

Who shall I contact

FYI  

you can benefit from a financial assistance to soundproof your home if you meet certain criteria.

The goods concerned by the Noise Diagnosis of airports are:

  • Residential building (house...) or mixed (professional and residential)
  • Building land

You must complete a form:

Air noise pollution condition

This document contains the following information:

  • The clear and precise indication of the noise area
  • The address of the on-line information service to consult the noise exposure plan (EPP)
  • Reference to the possibility of consulting the noise exposure plan at the municipality of the municipality where the building is located

This document must be:

  • Integrated into the Technical Diagnostic Record (DDT) which is annexed, as the case may be, to the promise to sell (or, in its absence, to the authentic instrument of sale), to the lease or annexed to those instruments if the sale concerns an unbuilt building
  • Or annexed to the authentic instrument of sale and, if any, to the preliminary contract in the case of sale in the future state of completion

Penalties are provided for the owner-seller or lessor and the notary.

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For the seller

You may be liable if you do not provide the diagnosis or if you mention false information in the sale announcement to mislead the future buyer.

The purchaser may to appeal to the court of justice of the place where the property is located to ask:

  • Cancelation of the sale
  • Or damages
  • Or a reduction in the sale price.

For the lessor

Your liability may be incurred if you do not transmit the diagnosis or if you mention false information in the rental advertisement to mislead the future tenant.

The tenant may to appeal to the court of justice of the place where the property is located to request damages.

For the notary

The notary may be liable in particular if he has validated the sale in the absence of the diagnosis or if he has knowledge of false information misleading the future buyer.

The purchaser may to appeal to the court of law of the place where the immovable property is situated and obtain damages.

Air noise pollution condition

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