Service France Domaine
Service France Domaine is a French government agency,[1] which plays a central role in the property management of state-owned real estate in France.[2][3] France Domaine acts as the owner of the state real estate, and advises various public administrations in activities related to real estate,[4] for instance by coordinating the real estate strategy for different ministries.[5] France Domaine functions under the ministry for budget and state reform[6] (Ministère du Budget, des comptes publics, de la fonction publique et de la réforme de l'État).[7]
Since 2007, all ministries in the central administration pay internal rent to France Domaine for their use of state-owned real estate.[4][8] France Domaine is tasked with disposing property that is no longer used by the government, and which has become too costly or outdated to maintain.[1] All in all, its real estate operations include buying, selling, renting, and development.[2] Together with approximately 150 regional and local treasury offices under the Public Treasury (Trésor public), France Domaine performs all activities relating to the management of government property assets.[2][9] The aims for France Domaine include to ensure that state property is efficiently managed,[5] increasing the quality of public services, while at the same time reducing costs; and also improving the working environment for government employees.[2]
State real estate stock
The state is the largest owner of real property in France.[10] In 2008, the French government property assets were valued at approximately 45 billion EUR.[11] A study done circa 2003 concluded that the government real estate stock comprised 120 to 150 million square meters of floor space, half of which was offices; the remainder consisting of warehouses, archival buildings, and some 300 000 residential buildings.[10] Approximately 80% of this real estate is occupied by government ministries and public administrative organizations.[10]
Sale of state-owned real estate
In 2005, the French government formed a strategy for state-owned real estate.[4] One of the goals was to reduce government debt by selling state-owned real estate on the market.[4] In 2005 the sales yielded 635 million EUR, and 798 million EUR in 2006.[3] However, only 15% of the returns would be used to reduce public debt.[3] The larger part would be used as an economic incentive to economise on real estate holdings, by being returned to the ministries that previously occupied the property.[3]
Examples of such sales include:
- The St. Anne Prison in Avignon, built in 1865 during the reign of Napoleon III.[1]
- The former residence of the commander of the French Foreign Legion.[1]
- A foreign ministry building proximal to Champs-Élysées, near the Arc de Triomphe. Sold for 600 million dollars.[1]
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 The Washington Post 2007.
- 1 2 3 4 Trésor Public and France Domaine 2007, p.1
- 1 2 3 4 Eurointelligence 2007
- 1 2 3 4 OECD public governance committee, p. 20.
- 1 2 France Domaine 2007.
- ↑ Regional European Forum on Reinventing Government, p. 1
- ↑ Ministère du Budget
- ↑ Trésor Public and France Domaine 2007, p. 2.
- ↑ Trésor Public and France Domaine 2007, p. 3.
- 1 2 3 Managing Government Property Assets 2007, p. 103. The information from this section might be from as early as 2003.
- ↑ Business Immo 2008.
References
- Ministère du Budget, des comptes publics, de la fonction publique et de la réforme de l'État (2009). "Cessions immobilières de l'Etat" [Transfers of state-owned real estate] (in French). Retrieved 29 July 2009.
- Regional European Forum on Reinventing Government (2007). "Transformational Government: Creating the Public Administration of the Future" [pdf] (PDF). Retrieved 29 July 2009.
- Trésor Public; France Domaine (2007). "State property management and the French public treasury" [pdf] (PDF). Retrieved 29 July 2009.
- Le Monde (2007). "How property sales boost government spending". Eurointelligence ASBL. Archived from the original on July 30, 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2009.
- Moore, Molly (December 26, 2007). "A Place for Some Time Away: France Seeks Buyer To Turn Old Prison Into a Luxury Hotel". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on July 30, 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- Business Immo (July 3, 2008). "Eric Woerth wants a single operator for state property". Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- Bizet, Bernard (March 2006). "State real property asset management in France". In Kaganova, Olga; McKellar, James. Managing government property assets: International experiences. Washington DC: Urban Institute Press. pp. 231–270. ISBN 0-87766-730-6. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- OECD, public governance committee (April 2007). "Country Factsheets" [pdf] (PDF). Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- France Domaine (2007). "Property management policy of the French State" [pdf] (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2009.
External links
- Service France Domain — Official website (in French)
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