SIMI’S

PILLARS & EXPERTISE AREAS

In response to the profound transformations reshaping the industry, SIMI structures the key challenges facing real estate around four strategic pillars: transforming existing assets, creating value, contributing to the economy, and rethinking housing. Financing, decarbonization, performance, evolving uses, and regional dynamics: these pillars and areas of expertise provide insight into ongoing changes, help guide industry stakeholders, and pave the way for sustainable value creation at the heart of both the economy and local communities.

THE 3 KEY PILLARS OF REAL ESTATE

PILLAR 1

TRANSFORMING EXISTING ASSETS:

Financing, decarbonizing, and reinventing uses.

This pillar highlights the key levers for bringing projects to life in a challenging environment by combining financing, decarbonization, and the reinvention of asset uses. The challenge today is to transform existing assets in order to shape the city differently and respond to rapidly evolving needs.

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PILLAR 2

CREATING VALUE:

Investing, operating, and driving performance.

This pillar explores how real estate is becoming a true value creation chain, integrating investment, operations, and performance management at every stage of the asset lifecycle.

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PILIER 3

CONTRIBUTING TO THE ECONOMY:

Real estate as strategic infrastructure.

As a creator of jobs, a driver of growth, and a catalyst for major transitions, real estate is essential infrastructure for the functioning of the economy and local communities. This pillar highlights its structuring role in supporting the real economy.

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HOUSING SUMMIT:

Transforming, making housing more accessible, and bringing uses closer together.

The real estate industry can no longer rely solely on new construction. This summit promotes a comprehensive approach based on a balance between transforming existing housing stock, economic accessibility, and local integration. The objective is to rethink current models in order to deliver housing that is more affordable, better aligned with users’ needs, and more closely connected to local dynamics.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PILLAR 1: TRANSFORMING EXISTING ASSETS

URBAN REGENERATION

Urban regeneration aims to breathe new life into existing assets, enhance the value of real estate portfolios, and unlock land potential in a context of increasing scarcity. It enables cities to develop in new ways, making increasingly complex projects possible.

>>> This area of expertise will highlight strategies for transforming cities from within and creating value in a context of limited land availability..

DECARBONISING THE REAL ESTATE STOCK

Real estate is at the heart of the ecological transition and must accelerate its transformation. This requires activating decarbonisation levers, addressing existing asset portfolios at scale, and placing properties on sustainable pathways. Energy is becoming a key driver of real estate transformation.

>>> This area of expertise will provide practical insights into accelerating asset decarbonisation and embedding long-term sustainability within real estate portfolios.

FINANCING TRANSFORMATION

In a context of financial market pressure, funding has become a critical issue. The challenge is to develop new models capable of supporting increasingly complex projects, restoring viable economic balances, and financing investment in a rapidly evolving real estate sector.

>>> This area of expertise will examine new financing models designed to support more complex and transformative projects.

RISK ANTICIPATION AND ASSET RESILIENCE

Real estate assets are operating in an increasingly uncertain environment. Anticipating risks, strengthening resilience, and ensuring long-term operational viability have become major priorities. The objective is to secure projects while embedding assets within a framework of sustainability and robustness.

>>> This area of expertise will showcase solutions for strengthening asset resilience and anticipating risk in an uncertain environment.

PILLAR 2: CREATING VALUE

CAPITAL, INVESTMENT AND VALUE CREATION

Investment strategies are evolving to adapt to a more demanding environment. The challenge is to rethink the relationship between capital and real estate by integrating operations as a driver of value creation and placing the end user at the heart of strategic decision-making.

>>> This area of expertise will examine new investment strategies and value creation drivers in a rapidly evolving real estate market.

NEW ECONOMIC MODELS

The industry must restore its economic balance in a context of persistently high costs. New business models are emerging to share the costs of adaptation, anticipate change, and define the assets of tomorrow.

>>> This area of expertise will explore emerging models designed to restore economic balance and support the sector’s transformation.

USE VALUE AND MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT

Real estate value is now built around use. Mixed-use environments, enhanced occupancy, and diversified functions help create places that are more vibrant, attractive, and efficient, moving beyond the traditional real estate development model.

>>> This area of expertise will demonstrate how use value and mixed-use development are becoming key drivers of performance and attractiveness.

COMPETITIVENESS AND THE REAL ESTATE VALUE CHAIN

Real estate is part of a comprehensive and increasingly integrated production chain. Industrialization, stakeholder collaboration, and lead-time optimization are becoming essential levers for improving overall performance and managing growing project complexity.

>>> This area of expertise will analyze the evolution of the real estate production chain to enhance efficiency and competitiveness.

DATA, AI AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Data and artificial intelligence are transforming asset management. They enable operators to optimize operations, control costs, and scale portfolio management, placing performance at the center of real estate strategies.

>>> This area of expertise will showcase how data and AI are transforming real estate operations and performance management.

PILLAR 3: CONTRIBUTING TO ECONOMIC

REINDUSTRIALISATION

Real estate plays a key role in the return of productive activities. This means identifying suitable land, revitalising brownfield sites and designing infrastructure capable of supporting new industrial dynamics.

>>> This expertise will explore the role of real estate in bringing productive activities back and supporting reindustrialisation dynamics.

LOGISTICS INFRASTRUCTURE

At the heart of value chains, logistics real estate is evolving to meet new needs. From last-mile delivery to the integration of industrial and commercial functions, it contributes to the development of more efficient and connected ecosystems.

>>> This expertise will shed light on the transformation of logistics real estate at the heart of new value chains and evolving economic needs.

TERRITORIAL ATTRACTIVENESS AND SOVEREIGNTY

Real estate assets directly contribute to the attractiveness of territories. By bringing together places to live, work and conduct business, they help reconnect urban functions and foster new drivers of territorial development.

>>> This expertise will demonstrate how real estate strengthens the attractiveness of territories and supports their economic development.

NEW INFRASTRUCTURE: ENERGY, DIGITAL AND DATA CENTRES

Energy, digital and data infrastructure is becoming increasingly strategic. Real estate must support these growing needs while addressing issues of social acceptance, land availability and energy performance, which are central to territorial decision-making.

>>> This expertise will analyse the challenges surrounding strategic infrastructure and its integration into territories.

THE HOUSING SUMMIT

TRANSFORMING EXISTING ASSETS TO DELIVER HOUSING

Faced with land scarcity, transformation is becoming a key lever for delivering housing through existing assets — offices, brownfield sites, retail premises or public buildings — provided that technical feasibility, economic models and financing capacity are aligned.

>>> This expertise will explore the practical conditions required to transform the existing building stock into a credible and operational solution for housing delivery.

DELIVERING AFFORDABLE HOUSING: NEW MODELS, NEW FINANCING

Delivering housing in a constrained environment requires rethinking existing models: operational viability, asset attractiveness and adaptation to new uses are at the heart of strategies aimed at maintaining affordable and sustainable housing delivery.

>>> This expertise will analyse the levers for delivering affordable housing by rethinking economic models and financing solutions.

HOUSING AS ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TERRITORIES

Housing plays a key role in the functioning of territories: it determines their attractiveness, their ability to balance supply and demand, and their economic dynamism, in direct connection with employment areas.

>>> This expertise will demonstrate how housing supports the attractiveness, employment and balance of territories.