900 euro per square metre in the nine and 2

With more jobs (28,000) that people (21,000), the commune of Vélizy-Villacoublay, in Yvelines, is unique. It hosts both one activities parks and shopping centres (98,000 square meters) the most important Parisian West. Result, its unemployment rate (6.9 at the end of 2005) is much lower than those of the country, region and even of the Department. The industrial vocation of the town date former implementation in its territory of aeronautical activities related to the presence of Villacoublay airfield, therefore, over time, companies of mechanics, electronics and defence.

Thus, installations of Alcatel, great user historic park of Vélizy, and expanded in the Commons area nearby Meudon-la-Forêt, Plessis-Robinson and Clamart, arrived from other companies. This is the case of Renault, which had built its headquarters on 60,000 square metres to the Plessis-Robinson, Peugeot, who took foot Vélizy A86, and MBDA, which is delivered in September 2006 a building of 70,000 square metres in the Plessis-Robinson. The short term, Bouygues real estate, just to buy at Meudon, but to a street in Vélizy the former site of Aircelle, a subsidiary of Safran, will develop 50,000 meters square for its sister Bouygues Telecom company. Dassault Systèmes headquarters 60,000 square metres financed by the land of the regions will be completed in 2008 at Vélizy. These big names in the industry attracted many providers. Among them, the computer scientist Atos dans the framework of a contract for managed services with Renault requiring him to not be away from Headquarters more than 4 km installed on 7,500 square metres to Clamart.

Lower rents

For Vincent Bollaert, the team responsible for major accounts of the Board Cushman & Wakefield, "companies for between 4,000 and 5,000 local square metres can favour Vélizy with less high than elsewhere in the West, rents in a friendly environment, since the municipality is located on the forest of Meudon and that it has a high proportion of frameworks""Finally, because it is close to Orly, while the A86 should be concluded in 2007 and the A13 to be linked in 2009. Certainly, access by public transportation is not easy, but the project of commissioning in 2009 or 2010 a streetcar line that descended to the South of Paris by Châtillon Montrouge, Clamart could compensate this handicap.

The other issue of Vélizy, in the end of 2006, is that new constructions are rare. Outside the headquarters of Dassault Systèmes, one project is for the moment out of cartons: the Crystalys building. Colony Capital, which has already delivered in 2004 to Vélizy four buildings for headquarters of Alcatel, is the developer, with the Windsor Promotion sponsor whose offices are nearby. Built in white, therefore found tenants and be resold to Gecina to its delivery in April 2007, seven trays of 3.200 each square metres will face the future headquarters of Dassault Systèmes. "We treated its decoration as a showcase and that users want to come," said Camille Barrois, responsible for the project at Colony Capital which does not hide his main argument is the weakness of his rent: "215 euros per square metre compared to double to Boulogne or Issy and 300 euros to the West." Even the old buildings are not competitive because it "charges, obsolete buildings, are high." Vincent Bollaert confirmed: "Vélizy Park is a little aging and has difficulty to market."

Another real estate institution deserves a cure of youth: the Vélizy 2 shopping centre. Including a large department store (spring), 185 shops and a supermarket (Auchan), it hosts nearly 20 million visitors a year. "Open in 1972, he did had never been renovated", recognizes Jérôme Le Grelle, Director General for the France of Dutch Rodamco, who is co-owner to 27.1. Where a EUR 30 million upgrade program started in 2006 to be completed the following year. "This investment had become necessary because Vélizy 2 was threatened by the development of other more modern commercial areas, in particular at Boulogne," continued the pattern of Rodamco in France, which relies heavily on the completion of A86 and the different roadway planned in the coming years to increase the customer.

Vélizy market is doing well. "It is very plaintiff, said Daniel Elbase, Manager of the Laforêt agency based in Sèvres and active in the municipality." Hence an increase in the price included between 8 and 9 in one year. "Primo-homebuyers seem most interested. "Rather than pay a rent of 1.000 to 1.200 euros at Boulogne, they prefer to buy here with a credit on twenty-five years," says real estate agent. Today, at the top of range, a 3-4 parts sells 3.900 euro per square metre in the nine and 2.800 euros in the former.