The French government announced on Thursday that it has sold the 7,000 m[sup]2[/sup] Montesquieu property in the seventh arrondissement of Paris for EUR 142 mln. The building, which currently houses the French foreign aid ministry, has been sold to a French unit of a Russian company listed in London and connected to the US group Hines.
Swiss real estate group Investis has boosted its real estate holdings with the CHF 139 mln (€149 mln) purchase of prime residential properties in Vaud canton.
