Balzac REIM is an independent real estate fund manager regulated by the AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers)
Balzac REIM builds bespoke investment strategies for its clients.
We offer a full range of services from sourcing buildings located in and close to Paris, to structuring acquisitions and applying our high-grade asset management know-how to complex real estate transactions.
Value creation is at the core of our corporate philosophy
Key Dates
2021
>€ 1bn AUM
1st dedicated office OPPCI
2020
Awarded Alternative Investment
Fund Management status by the AMF
2019
€ 700 million AUM
2018
€ 500 million AUM
2015
€ 200 million AUM
2009
Redevelopment of 26,000 sq m
flagship office building
2007
Launch Balzac REIM
5 guiding values
01Proactive
We listen
Our clients appreciate the way we listen to their concerns and treat every situation on its merits.
02Agile
We are agile
We strive to anticipate and adapt to the demands of a changing world.
03Professionnal
We act professionnaly
We apply, develop and hone skills that ensure we retain our position as the « go to » player in our market.
04Experienced
We apply our experience
We apply our team’s long-term and diverse professional experience to everything we do.
05Independent
We are independent
Balzac REIM is an independently owned and managed business which gives us freedom to make the right decisions for our investors.
Our approach to responsible investment
Managing our clients’ capital to deliver a positive impact on society and on the environment.
OUR ESG CRITERIA
Balzac REIM believes that a positive environment is a fundamental driver of growth.
Environmental
To reduce our carbon footprint, Balzac REIM occupies a building with exceptional environmental and sustainability labels.We recycle our waste and our office furniture is made of natural wood.
We encourage our staff to ride bicycles to work and use electric vehicles.
Social
Balzac REIM seeks to transmit its knowledge.We offer internships to students and regularly teach classes in France’s leading business schools.
We gifted our previous office furniture to a charity.
Governance
Balzac REIM values its independence highly as it guarantees our ability toprovide objective advice free of conflicts of interest.
When possible we co-invest our own equity alongside our clients.
AFFILIATIONS
Guided by responsible investment criteria Balzac REIM has signed The United Nations Principles for Investment (UN PRI).
The six Principles for Responsible Investment are a voluntary and aspirational set of investment principles that offer a menu of possible actions for incorporating ESG issues into our investment
practices.
OUR ESG APPROACH
We apply ESG considerations to real estate investment opportunities that we consider for our clients whenever possible. All our properties under management have best-in-class environmental and sustainability labels.
Our concrete ESG commitments
In 2017 the first Café Joyeux was set up in Rennes, employing and training people, mainly with Down's syndrome or cognitive disorders such as autism.
Sensitive to the subject of social inclusion and solidarity, Balzac REIM has chosen to participate in the development of Café Joyeux, which contributes to the inclusion of people with mental and cognitive disabilities.
By 2022, 1000 companies directly or indirectly participate in the Café Joyeux project as clients or consuming their products.
For the past 4 years, Balzac REIM has supported the Cycles de l'Immobilier association as a sponsor, convinced by the values defended: caring, surpassing oneself, mutual aid and solidarity.
Created in 2017, Les Cycles de l'Immobilier is an association under the Law of 1901 whose aim is to promote cycling among European real estate professionals, while donating the funds raised to charities, which fall within the real estate, health and education perimeters.
The association's identity is based on 3 pillars: Cycling, Networking and Charity. Every year during the MIPIM trade fair in Cannes, the association organises a charity ride, taking on a challenge covering several hundred kilometres and several thousand meters of ascent over 5 days to reach Cannes by bike with a group of around sixty cyclists, all property professionals. This challenge is an opportunity to support 3 selected charities for periods of 3 years. The last edition (2024) raised over €270,000, bringing the total raised since 2017 to €1 million! This charity trek is an opportunity to put the financial issues specific to our sector in brackets in order to carry out a concrete action in support of causes that are close to our hearts.
In addition to its recurring sponsorship, Balzac REIM is more closely involved with the association through its employee Mathieu MINARD. He is a volunteer member of the association's Bureau and takes part in the charity walk every year.
Balzac REIM has joined the 900 members of the association “Les amis d’Arthur”, which aims to promote the inclusion of people with autism and to change the way our society views this disability.
Balzac REIM measures its carbon footprint which it intends off-setting by planting trees in France later this year.
Balzac REIM is studying the installation of photovoltaic panels on the roof of storage building on a farm in the French countryside.
