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Housing 19/06/2020

French developer Réalités sells 238 housing units to CDC Habitat for €43m

French developer Réalités has announced the signing of an agreement with CDC Habitat, part of the state-controlled Caisse des Depots financial institution and France's (...)

Housing 26/05/2020

CDC Habitat to buy 911 housing units from Capelli for €183.5m

French developer Capelli Group finalised an agreement with CDC Habitat, part of the state-controlled Caisse des Depots financial institution and France's largest residential landlord, (...)

Housing 06/05/2020

Altarea Cogedim sells 3,500 units to CDC Habitat for €825m

French REIT/SIIC and developer Altarea Cogedim has signed an agreement with CDC Habitat, acting on behalf of its own funds as well as those (...)

Retail 17/04/2020

French government urges landlords to cancel 3 months' rent for closed small shops

The French government is asking large property owners to suspend for three months the collection of rents owed the rents owed by very small (...)

Finance 08/04/2020

French state’s CDC posts €2.7bn earnings for 2019

French state financial institution Caisse des Dépots et Consignation (CDC) reported aggregated earnings for last year of €2,7bn, down from last year’s €3.3bn. The lower (...)

Listed 02/04/2020

French REIT/SIIC Icade lowers its 2019 dividend

In response to the French government’s urging last week, French REIT/SIIC Icade’s Board of Directors decided to lower the 2019 dividend amount that will (...)

Housing 27/03/2020

French CDC Habitat orders 40,000 new units to support France’s real estate sector

CDC Habitat, part of the state-controlled Caisse des Depots financial institution and France's largest residential landlord, has announced an order for 40,000 new housing (...)

Finance 23/03/2020

France's landlords’ representatives commit to suspend rents for VSEs and SMEs

“As representative associations and federations of landlords, we unreservedly approve the emergency measures put in place by the government to combat the Covid-19 epidemic (...)

Office 09/01/2020

French CDC buys future BNP PRE headquarters near Paris for €500m

France’s CDC Investissement Immobilier - on behalf of the state’s Caisse des Dépôts and insurance group Assurances du Crédit Mutuel (ACM) – has recently (...)

Health / Senior 20/12/2019

Icade's healthcare unit completes €315m acquisitions in France, Germany, Italy

The healthcare unit of French REIT/SIIC Icade has completed acquisitions in its home market, and in Germany and Italy worth a total €315m to (...)

Office 10/10/2019

Altarea Cogedim, CDC, CNP complete one of largest Paris deals at €800m

In one of the largest Paris deals this year, worth €800m, Altarea Cogedim and the state's CDC have sold three office projects to insurer (...)

Hospitality 23/09/2019

France's Gecina, BNP Paribas RE drop bid to build Paris 2024 Olympic village

French REIT/SIIC Gecina and BNP Paribas Real Estate are dropping their joint bid to construct the future athletes' village for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The (...)

Hospitality 02/07/2019

“Covivio has acquired a stake in 32 Accor hotels with significant value creation potential”

Business Immo: What does Covivio Hotels unit represent today? Dominique Ozanne: Today, Covivio's hotel business represents €6bn in assets, representing around 15% of our revenues. This activity (...)

Office 06/06/2019

France's Icade to sell Paris Crystal Park office for €691m to Korean investor

Icade, one of France's largest listed firms, has signed to sell the 44,000 sqm Crystal Park office building in Neuilly in the west of (...)

Finance 05/06/2019

LaSalle IM's Mokrane joins BI sister firm iread as Senior Advisor

Mahdi Mokrane, Head of European Research and Strategy at LaSalle Investment Management, is joining Business Immo's sister company iread as Senior Advisor. Iread said Mokrane will collaborate and provide, in particular, his expertise (...)

Housing 22/05/2019

France's Ampère Gestion sees strong investor interest in €2bn second fund

France's Ampère Gestion is winning strong domestic and foreign investor interest as it heads to the next close of its €2bn intermediate housing fund (...)

Health / Senior 17/05/2019

French CdC bank, CA insurer, Korian partner to develop 150 senior care homes

France's Credit Agricole insurance and a bank owned by state financier CdC have formed a joint venture with the private Korian group to develop 150 new senior care (...)

Housing 03/05/2019

France selects Athletes' Village developers for 2024 Paris Olympics

France has selected the companies which will be assigned to develop the Athletes' Village for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics. The infrastructure is planned (...)

Housing 02/05/2019

French notaries see urban property dynamic spreading to countryside

The dynamism in France's housing property market, mainly confined to large cities until now, is beginning to spread to more rural areas, says the (...)

Office 23/04/2019

CNP to move Paris HQ by 2022 after approving Issy forward purchase

French insurer CNP is to move its HQ to the southwestern Paris district of Issy-Les-Moulineaux by 2022, after approving the forward purchase of an office (...)