Loi Carrez

The loi Carrez, or Carrez law is a French law enacted on 18 December 1996 which obliges the vendor of a property lot (or fraction of a lot) in a condominium to specifically mention the surface area in all documents relating to the property sold. It is named after its author Gilles Carrez, the then RPR member of the National Assembly for the Val-de-Marne's 5th constituency.

The law does not apply to sales of property not yet constructed, which comes under the building code, nor to construction land.