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Start with an audit logement by an accredited auditor before you renovate

The new Walloon renovation loans need an audit logement made or updated in the year before you apply. An accredited auditor visits the home and gives you a report that sets out the label, the works needed and the order to do them in.

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Help & subsidiesLevel 3 · UpgradeCost: €100–2,500Weeks or months

Since 1 October 2026, the Walloon renovation loans (Rénopack and Rénoprêt) start with an audit logement (the Walloon home audit). The report must have been made or updated in the year before you apply, and the works you finance with the loan have to appear in it. Its cost can be included in the loan. For an apartment building there is a specific audit for the whole building.

Only an auditor accredited by the Walloon administration may carry it out; accredited auditors have passed a training and an exam and are on an official list. The auditor visits the home, records its state, and checks basic safety, health and habitability as well as energy use. The report gives the home's PEB label and proposes bundles of works ranked by priority, with the energy gain of each, so you know what to tackle first. The auditor explains the report to you in person.

The scheme's procedures are still being finalised, but the SWCS advises you can already have the audit done and collect quotes. A Guichet Énergie can explain the audit and what follows before you book one.

This does not apply in the nine German-speaking municipalities, where the German-speaking Community runs its own support; see ostbelgienlive.be.

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ImpactIndirect · This saves no energy by itself: it is a rule, a service, a contract, or a health or safety item. How we rate impact
Estimated savingA report that plans the works; it saves no energy by itself, and the official pages give no figure. (confidence: low)
Who actsYou (owner)
Needs landlord's agreementNo
TypeAction

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Sources

  1. Rénovation énergétique : le nouveau régime de soutien entre en vigueur le 1er octobre (in French) · Wallonie.be (Service public de Wallonie) (official source) · checked on
    Backs: audit required before applying, made or updated no more than one year before the application; it sets the PEB label, identifies the necessary safety, health and energy works and helps plan the stages; its cost can be financed; the lender can estimate the label for some low-income applicants without a recent audit; apartment buildings need a specific audit; Guichets Énergie give information and first advice
    Where: news of 17 July 2026, updated 25 September 2026; part on the audit
  2. Nouveau régime d'aides à la rénovation : êtes-vous concerné ? (in French) · Société wallonne du Crédit social (SWCS) (official source) · checked on
    Backs: audit logement required for the loans; it identifies priority works and gives a coherent renovation plan; financed works must appear in the audit report; you can prepare the audit while the procedures are finalised
    Where: news of 30 September 2026, parts on the audit, eligible works and the current status
  3. Devenir auditeur logement (in French) · Wallonie.be (Service public de Wallonie) (official source) · checked on
    Backs: auditors are accredited by the SPW after training and an exam and appear on an official list; the audit covers safety, health and salubrity as well as energy; the auditor visits, proposes ranked bundles of works with their energy gains and explains the report to the applicant in person
    Where: sections 'En bref' and 'En détail'
  4. Energieprämien: Prämiensystem für energetische Umbaumaßnahmen (in German) · Ministerium der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens (official source) · checked on
    Backs: the German-speaking Community has been responsible for housing and energy in its nine municipalities since 2020 and has its own support scheme
    Where: introduction

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