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Wealth-focused investment
Let us say it plainly: Paris yields only 2 to 4% gross, less than most French regional markets. Anyone coming here for income has the wrong city. What Paris protects is value: a closed housing stock of which 3% changes hands each year, resale liquidity that exists nowhere else in France, and a tax regime that rewards long ownership. 45 days, 6% off the asking price, 1,200+ buyers since 2011.
Your search
An income investor hunts the best rent-to-price ratio. A wealth investor looks for something else: what cannot be reproduced. A high floor with a lift, an open view, dual aspect, a top floor, a terrace. No renovation creates those features, and they are what holds value over twenty years.
We look for what cannot be rebuilt: location, floor level, view, orientation, the quality of the building. Anything a renovation can fix (dated kitchen, awkward layout, tired parquet) becomes a negotiating lever instead, never a reason to walk away.
Between 15 and 25% of sales in the premium arrondissements (6th, 7th, 8th, 16th) close without a public listing. They circulate between professionals, notaires, building managers and caretakers, often because the seller does not want the property displayed on portals.
Personal name, SCI or split ownership: the structure is decided before signing, not after. We work with partner notaires to validate the one that matches your horizon and your exposure to the IFI wealth tax, which applies from 1.3 million euros of net property.
3% Share of the Paris housing stock that changes hands each year. That scarcity, not the rent, is what creates value here.
How we work
A method honed on more than 1,200 acquisitions since 2011, over 100 transactions a year.
We frame the real goal: building wealth, preparing a transfer, a pied-à-terre for children, reinvesting after a sale. That framing determines the type of property, not the other way round. If your objective is rental income, we will tell you plainly that Paris is the wrong market for it.
We select the areas and property types that hold: well-maintained cut-stone buildings, high floors with a lift, dual-aspect flats, top floors, terraces. The median price runs from 8,200 euros/sqm in the 19th to 14,500 euros/sqm in the 6th: that gap is one of scarcity, not build quality.
We activate our network of 15,000 professionals, agents, notaires, building managers and caretakers. Our hunters pre-view on your behalf: an independent search runs past 40 viewings, we present 3 on average, the ones worth your time.
Three years of general meeting minutes, works already voted through, reserve funds, the state of the facades, rights of view, consistency between Carrez and habitable surface. Then negotiation on the real comparables of the street: 6% off the seller's price on average.
Final deed at the notaire, 45 days on average after the mandate. We stay available afterwards: trades, interior architects and partner managers, depending on the use you have in mind.
Comparison
Averages observed across 1,200 completed searches in Paris since 2011.
They bought with us
My hunter turned down two flats I liked. Three months later I understood why: the building had a major facade renovation already voted through. Thank you for filtering.
From New York, I doubted you could buy seriously across a five-hour time difference. The video reports were so precise that the final viewing revealed nothing unexpected.
We wanted a pied-à-terre for our student children. Found in 6 weeks from Bordeaux. Not one wasted trip.
Frequently asked
Not in yield terms. Gross yields in Paris cap out between 2 and 4% depending on the arrondissement, while several French regional markets exceed 6%. Rents are capped and prices rise faster: the compression is arithmetic, not a phase of the cycle. If your decision rests on rent divided by price, we will tell you to look elsewhere. Paris justifies itself on preserving value, resale liquidity and succession. The detail is in our guide to wealth-focused investment in Paris.
At the median price of 9,900 euros/sqm (DVF data, April 2026 vintage), a 45 sqm two-room flat is around 445,000 euros and an 80 sqm family flat around 790,000 euros. Add 7 to 8% notaire fees on an existing property, of which around 5.81% is transfer duty. Our fee is 2.5% of the purchase price on an exclusive mandate, with a 10,000 euro minimum including VAT, payable on success only.
Personal ownership is simplest for a first property and keeps the capital gains exemption if it becomes your main residence. An SCI makes sense for succession or shared ownership: its real value is legal rather than tax-driven, since a flat cannot be cut into three where shares can. Split ownership prepares a transfer at reduced tax cost but needs a notaire from the outset. We frame that choice before the offer, with our partners.
The IFI applies above 1.3 million euros of net taxable property held on 1 January. In Paris that threshold arrives quickly: at the median price, a 100 sqm family flat owned outright is enough. A main residence benefits from a 30% allowance on its market value, and acquisition debt remains deductible. It is often the first surprise for a buyer arriving from abroad.
Capital gains are exempt from income tax after 22 years of ownership, and from social levies after 30 years. A main residence is exempt from year one. That mechanism, on top of 7 to 8% acquisition costs, is why a Paris purchase designed for resale within five years almost always hits the wall of fees and tax.
Yes, around 30% of our clients, and our team works in six languages. Buying at a distance is something we do routinely: filmed pre-viewings, detailed reports, signature by notarised power of attorney. Our page for expatriate buyers sets out the process.
We find for you
Scarcity, ownership structure, off-market access. The first conversation is free and without obligation, and we will also tell you when we are not the right people for it.
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