A private mansion was sold in February 2024 to a wealthy businessman. The latter paid several million euros for a property worthy of the famous series L’agence, broadcast on TMC.
Who doesn’t have the guilty pleasure of putting on their best pajamas, sitting on their couch and making obnoxious comments about the excessive goods offered by the Kretz Family? The homes they show have everything annoying: they are large, magnificent, isolated from everything, modern and bathed in light. Their sale price often reaches 7-figure amounts. However, the buyers, rich entrepreneurs, young cryptocurrency geniuses or large families, pay happily.
What type of buyer will acquire this 1,300 square meter mansion with 41 rooms located in the heart of Paris? According to Challenges, this large property on rue de Iéna, in the 16th arrondissement of the capital, was put up for sale by the State in September 2023. A property that he had acquired in the 1960s from Georges Marie Louis Herbert of Spain , then Marquis de Venevelles, and which was then the seat of the Institute for Research and History of Texts (IRHT) between 1966 and 2019.
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Who is the buyer of the immense 1,300 square meter mansion in the heart of Paris?
And it has already found a buyer in the person of Pascal Cagni. The man, who chairs the board of directors of the public agency Business France, was able to acquire it for the “modest” sum of 16 million euros, after the city of Paris had renounced its right of priority to buy it.
What will the businessman live in? As the specialized site describes, he should be able to frolic in some 1,324 m2 of living space in a house “Louis XIII architectural style, in cut stone and brick, with a wing overlooking the courtyard and a recent annex in structure metal and glass. » The building should also not suffer too much from noise from the street and neighbors. Although it is located on the street, it has a mezzanine and three floors. In the worst case, Pascal Cagni will have curtains installed.
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