History

■1879

Henri Germain, founder of Crédit Lyonnais, creates Société Foncière Lyonnaise.

■ 1892

SFL owns more than 300 buildings and nearly 2,000 hectares of land in Paris, on the Côte d’Azur, in Belgium and in Italy.

■ 1920

Although profits are affected by the First World War, SFL finds opportunities to gradually dispose of its non-Parisian assets up to 1939.

■ 1979

In its centenary year, SFL has a portfolio of about 185,000 sq.m valued at roughly
1 billion francs split evenly between exclusive commercial and residential premises in prime locations.

■ 2003

SFL maintains its strategic focus on office and retail property, with good results. The Company chooses the new REIT (SIIC) tax status for the benefit of shareholders.

■ 2011

SFL enjoys strategic momentum, driven by its determined focus on the Paris prime commercial property market and its customer-centric corporate culture.

■ 2023

SFL’s portfolio boasts 17 prime properties located in Paris (99%) and the most attractive parts of the city’s Western Crescent (1%). Representing a total surface area of 410,000 sq.m, it consists of office properties (81%) and retail units (18%). The value of the portfolio at 31 December 2023 is estimated at €7.3 billion.