Credit: GRI InstituteStrategic Investment Opportunities in French Real Estate - GRI Institute Report
Key insights from France GRI 2025 on the evolving French property market landscape and emerging investment opportunities
August 6, 2025Real Estate
Written by Rory Hickman
As the French real estate market undergoes significant changes, with shifting economic conditions, rising interest rates, and evolving investor strategies reshaping the landscape, our latest report - French Real Estate Investment Outlook 2025/26 - takes a deep dive into the sector’s current challenges and emerging opportunities.
Featuring the most valuable insights gathered from France GRI 2025, where over 140 industry leading investors, developers, and asset managers gathered in Paris for a series of in-depth roundtable discussions, this report offers a clear view of the market's evolving dynamics.
Uncover how France’s investment appeal has shifted, now ranking fifth in Europe, while maintaining strong advantages in transparency, liquidity, and financing, even as investors become increasingly selective.
Market Trends
Understand the polarisation of the French market, where core assets are in high demand and speculative properties are facing challenges while hybrid working models are reshaping more than just office spaces.
Capital Flows
Learn how capital flows are shifting towards higher-yielding sectors such as logistics and healthcare, and why investors are diversifying away from traditional markets, including offices and retail.
Sectoral Shifts
Find out why the office market continues to struggle despite growth across logistics, residential, and co-living sectors, with managed residential assets, such as student housing, becoming increasingly attractive.
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Redefining Prime
Discover how “prime” real estate is being redefined by operational needs and location along with why high-quality properties with exceptional service are gaining demand - even outside traditional core locations.
Alternative Financing
Explore the rise of family offices and alternative investors entering the market, particularly in value-add projects, as well as how fiduciary structures like fiducie are offering greater control and risk management.
While the market grapples with new realities, including tighter financing, rising demand for ESG-compliant properties, and the growing influence of non-institutional players, the French Real Estate Investment Outlook 2025/26 report provides actionable insights for navigating the changes shaping France’s real estate market and the risks that investors must consider in the coming years.
Access the full analysis and strategic insights below:
As the French real estate market undergoes significant changes, with shifting economic conditions, rising interest rates, and evolving investor strategies reshaping the landscape, our latest report - French Real Estate Investment Outlook 2025/26 - takes a deep dive into the sector’s current challenges and emerging opportunities.
Featuring the most valuable insights gathered from France GRI 2025, where over 140 industry leading investors, developers, and asset managers gathered in Paris for a series of in-depth roundtable discussions, this report offers a clear view of the market's evolving dynamics.
What’s inside the report?
Investment LandscapeUncover how France’s investment appeal has shifted, now ranking fifth in Europe, while maintaining strong advantages in transparency, liquidity, and financing, even as investors become increasingly selective.
(GRI Institute)
Market Trends
Understand the polarisation of the French market, where core assets are in high demand and speculative properties are facing challenges while hybrid working models are reshaping more than just office spaces.
Capital Flows
Learn how capital flows are shifting towards higher-yielding sectors such as logistics and healthcare, and why investors are diversifying away from traditional markets, including offices and retail.
Sectoral Shifts
Find out why the office market continues to struggle despite growth across logistics, residential, and co-living sectors, with managed residential assets, such as student housing, becoming increasingly attractive.
(GRI Institute)Redefining Prime
Discover how “prime” real estate is being redefined by operational needs and location along with why high-quality properties with exceptional service are gaining demand - even outside traditional core locations.
Alternative Financing
Explore the rise of family offices and alternative investors entering the market, particularly in value-add projects, as well as how fiduciary structures like fiducie are offering greater control and risk management.
While the market grapples with new realities, including tighter financing, rising demand for ESG-compliant properties, and the growing influence of non-institutional players, the French Real Estate Investment Outlook 2025/26 report provides actionable insights for navigating the changes shaping France’s real estate market and the risks that investors must consider in the coming years.
Access the full analysis and strategic insights below: