The bail mobilité in Strasbourg

A closed list, and nothing outside it

The bail mobilité is set out in articles 25-12 et seq. of the law of 6 July 1989, introduced by the loi ELAN of 23 November 2018. It is open only to a tenant who can show, on the date the lease takes effect, one of these situations: vocational training, higher education, apprenticeship contract, internship, voluntary commitment in service civique, job transfer or temporary assignment in connection with their work.

The supporting document is attached to the lease. Outside this list, the contract is not a bail mobilité: it is reclassified, with the rules of the standard furnished lease, its one-year term and its deposit. Strasbourg brings together many of these profiles: university, colleges, CHU, European institutions, work-study students.

Four rules that exist for it alone

From one to ten months, and not a month more

The term is free within this range. It may be changed once by amendment, provided the total stays under ten months. Once the term is up, the lease is not renewed: it ends.

No security deposit

The law forbids it, without exception. A landlord who wants cover uses a guarantor, and the Visale guarantee from Action Logement is expressly allowed for this lease.

Furnished letting compulsory

The property must include the furnishings set by decree no. 2015-981: bedding, hob, oven or microwave, fridge with a freezer compartment, crockery, table and seating, storage, light fittings, cleaning equipment. One missing item and the classification falls away.

One month's notice, at any time

The tenant may leave whenever they wish, with one month's notice. The landlord, on the other hand, cannot give notice before the end of the term: they are committed for the whole period. That is the counterpart to the flexibility granted on the other side.

In a house share, with no joint liability clause

Several bails mobilité can coexist in the same property. But the law prohibits the joint liability clause here: the departure or the arrears of one flatmate cannot be claimed from the others. For a landlord, this changes the risk calculation, and it is the main argument in favour of standard individual leases when turnover is fast.

Our flat-share guide sets out this trade-off between a single lease and individual leases.

Read the guide to shared tenancies

On the landlord's side: what you gain, what you pay

You gain a certain exit on a known date, with no notice to be justified and no six-month notice period, which is valuable for a property you want to take back, sell or renovate. You also gain a furnished-let rent.

You pay for that certainty in turnover: ten months at most, so at least one état des lieux, one round of repairs and one re-letting a year. This is precisely where rental management changes the calculation, since it is what absorbs that work.

Read the guide to the management mandate