European property company
Covivio is a French property management company[1] founded in 1998. Its activities are divided between the office property sector (54%), the residential sector (30%) and the hotel sector (16%).[2]
Covivio's assets are valued at €24.8 billion.[3][4][5]
Covivio was born in 2018.[6] It is the new name of Foncière des Régions,[7] which was created in France in the early 2000s. The Covivio identity brings together all the group's activities in Europe:[8]
- Offices in France and Italy following the merger with its Italian subsidiary Beni Stabili in December 2018. Covivio has also been active in the office market in Germany since 2018. Offices account for 54% of Covivio's portfolio.
- Residential in Germany via its subsidiary Covivio Immobilien. Covivio Immobilien is a real estate investment company specialising in the ownership, development and management of residential assets. Residential property in Germany accounts for 30% of Covivio's assets.
- Hotels in Europe via its subsidiary Covivio Hotels. Created in 2004, Covivio Hotels specialises in owning hotel properties. It is now the leader in hotel property investment in Europe.[9] Hotel property accounts for 16% of Covivio's assets.
Finally, in 2017, Covivio created Wellio, an offer dedicated to flexible offices and coworking.
History
Foncière des Régions[10] was created in 1998 in Metz, initially with the property and workers' housing assets of the Usinor group, which was refocusing on its steel business.
In 2002, the company continued to invest in housing, taking over 4,000 homes from the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique through its Sovakle subsidiary. But it is also diversifying its investments. In 2004, Foncière des Régions took control of another listed property company, Bail Investissement, which owns a significant portfolio of offices and logistics platforms. Another subsidiary, Foncière des Murs, acquired 22 retirement homes from the Suren group,[11] followed by 128 hotel properties from the AccorHotels group.
In 2018, Foncière des Régions became Covivio.
Activities and areas of expertise
Office property and co-working
Covivio's office portfolio in France will account for 31% of its total portfolio by the end of 2022. Covivio designs new or restructured office projects in the Greater Paris area and in major regional cities such as Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseille and Montpellier.
In 2022, the Group delivered 3 buildings in Paris:
- Stream Building,[12] a mixed-use retail, office and hotel building (operated by the ZOKU hotel chain[13]) located at the foot of the Court of First Instance. Winner of the 2015 "Réinventer Paris"[14] call for innovative urban projects, Stream Building is a mixed-use building (shops, offices and hotel) designed by the PCA-STREAM agency.
- So Pop,[15] an office building between Paris and Saint-Ouen: 32,000 m² spread over 7 floors, with 4,000 m² of gardens.
- 21 Goujon, 8,600 m² on rue Jean Goujon, close to the Golden Triangle and avenue Montaigne.
In Italy, Covivio is concentrating its investments on the office market in Milan, which accounts for 15% of its total portfolio. In Milan, Covivio is developing a number of projects, including :
- Symbiosis, co-designed with the city, which will eventually include 125,000 m² of offices and services.[16]
- Vitae, a mixed-use project that was one of the winners of the "Reinventing cities" competition
- Scalo di Porta Romana, 190,000 m² co-designed with Coima SGR and Prada Holding S.p.A., which will house the Olympic Village for the 2026 Winter Games.[17][18][19]
Covivio is developing co-working with its subsidiary Wellio, created in 2017. At the beginning of 2023, nine sites were open (4 in Paris and 1 in Marseille, 1 in Bordeaux, 1 in Lyon and 2 in Milan) totalling more than 35,000 m².
Hotel infrastructure with Covivio Hotels
The Hotels business will account for 16% of the Group's assets by the end of 2022. Covivio has forged partnerships with hotel groups in Europe and supports them in their leasing, ownership and fund or development projects. It owns €6.7 billion in hotel assets (323 hotels in 12 European countries) and works with 16 hotel operators and 30 brands, including AccorHotels, B&B HOTELS, IHG, Marriott, Radisson, NH Hotel Group, Motel One, Meininger, etc. Ho
Residential accommodation in Germany
In Germany, Covivio owns 41,300 homes, including coliving units, in cities such as Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig and the Ruhr region.
In France, Covivio is speeding up the transformation of its obsolete offices into multi-use accommodation.
Sites in Europe
Covivio is a European group based predominantly in France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain.[20]
