OUR TRAINING COURSES TEST
AMS Law Firm offers practical, focused legal training sessions in English designed for real estate professionals operating in the French market. Our programs are built around real-world challenges and aim to strengthen your working knowledge of lease law, rental property management, and co-ownership (copropriété) regulations.
Whether you're a property manager, real estate agent, in-house counsel our training will provide you with immediately applicable legal tools.
Sessions are available on-site (within your organisation or at our offices in Lyon) or online, and can be fully tailored to your team’s operational needs and level of experience.
Leases
Commercial Leases
- Legal requirements for validity, duration, and renewal
- Rent setting and revision mechanisms
- Allocation of charges and property-related taxes
- Termination, partial change of use (déspécialisation), and eviction compensation
- Disputes and litigation involving commercial leases
- Residential Leases (1989 Law)
- Types of leases: unfurnished, furnished, mobility lease
- Key clauses: rent, charges, security deposit, repairs
- Coliving and joint tenancy regulations
- Rent control and indexation (IRL)
- Termination and notice: mutual agreement, legal termination, forfeiture clause
- Eviction procedures and tenant protections
Rental property management
- Management mandates: scope, obligations, and legal liability
- Landlord–tenant relationship: rights and duties of each party
- Compliance monitoring: safety, habitability standards, mandatory diagnostics
- Handling rent arrears and amicable recovery procedures
- Security deposits and check-in/check-out inspections
- Unpaid rent insurance (GLI), property damage claims, and loss reporting
- GDPR compliance in property management activities
- Professional liability of property managers and agents
- Landlord–tenant disputes: non-payment, damage, refusal to vacate
- Documentation and justification
Co-ownership Law (Copropriété)
- Legal framework: 1965 Law, 1967 Decree, ELAN reform
- Structure and governance of the co-ownership (syndicat) and the property manager (syndic)
- Notice and conduct of general meetings (assemblées générales)
- Applicable voting majorities and challenges to resolutions
- Procedural rules for works approved in AG (excluding technical aspects)
- Allocation of charges and recovery of unpaid fees
- Neighbourhood disturbances and conflict resolution within co-ownerships
- Liability of the managing agent (syndic) and the co-owners’ association (conseil syndical)
- Horizontal co-ownerships and ASLs (Associations Syndicales Libres): legal specificities
- Professional civil liability of the managing agent
- Disputes between co-owners and the managing agent