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La République du Centre - Real Estate
March 15, 2024
Discover the recent or upcoming business locations in Orléans and its surroundings
Who bought or leased offices, business premises, or logistics sites in 2023 in the Metropolis? An overview in figures and examples provided by BNP Paribas Real Estate.
The commercial real estate market in Orléans didn't fare too badly last year, compared to the housing crisis and the rest of France, even though the investment amounts dropped drastically.
Orléans leads the seventeen cities observed by BNP Paribas Real Estate with a 48% increase, with 32,000 square meters of office space exchanged! Transactions in Orléans are even 9% higher than the average of the last ten years..
Elsewhere, among other developments, Crédit Agricole expanded to Saint-Jean-de-Braye. Build'ing will leave Olivet to set up its headquarters in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin.
Vincent Moreau, from BNP Paribas Real Estate, also notes with satisfaction the "return of the public" for nearly half of the requests, particularly from Orléans Métropole and the Department.
The available office spaces, totaling 41,400 square meters, including 15% new constructions, are also on the rise. This is thanks to developments like Portes du Loiret (Icare, Symbiose buildings), Interives (Luminescence), and also, in the city center, the return to the market of the Orléans Plaza 2 building, vacated by France Travail, in Coligny.
When the new offices have found tenants (which is well underway), it will then take another two years before new ones emerge.
Flex Spaces
60,000 square meters of business premises were exchanged last year, remaining stable. Transactions (with leases accounting for 72%) remained 'solid, averaging' in 2023 in the Orléans Metropolis. New constructions represented nearly a quarter of transactions, thanks to developments like Portes du Loiret.
For example, the new sites of vinaigrerie Martin-Pouret (4,800 square meters in Boigny-sur-Bionne) and the Bobbies shoe company (4,500 square meters in Marigny-les-Usages) are mentioned.
Spaces are available for the coming year, with more than half being new constructions! This is the case with the Ecopark, featuring 4,000 square meters under construction in Marigny. Also, for 2025, there's the business park with 18,000 square meters currently being developed on a 45,300 square meter plot by ADM/Novaxia, at 55 Avenue Ampère, in Saint-Jean-de-Braye (formerly the headquarters of Kverneland, which moved to Marigny). It will host SMEs and logistics companies.
Carole Tribout