Europe’s best bank for real estate 2025: Societe Generale

Societe Generale has built a deliberately integrated real estate platform that provides sector advisory coupled with balance-sheet financing and public-markets execution. Split between Paris and Frankfurt, the team covers France/Benelux and the German-speaking countries while also originating across Spain, Central and Eastern Europe, and the UK.  

A joint venture with Bernstein has deepened Societe Generale equity capital markets reach by adding a globally respected research and distribution spine, allowing the bank to act as a one-stop shop for listed property companies and sponsors alike.  

The strategy showed its full force in 2025 when the bank’s real estate team acted as global coordinator on Vonovia’s dual-tranche convertible bond, in the largest European convertible of the year and among the largest across sectors in recent years.

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