AXA IM Alts enters studio sector with Bry-sur-Marne film & series studios acquisitions

AXA IM Alts has acquired a 12-hectare (29.7-acre) land plot in Bry-sur-Marne and Villiers-sur- Marne, Paris from Nexity.

The site includes one of France’s largest film and series studios. The transaction represents AXA IM Alts’ first in the fast-growing studio sector, where rapid growth in demand for original content from broadcasters and streaming services, as well as continued demand for feature film content, is underpinning increasing global demand for purpose-built studio space.

Bry-sur-Marne studios now provides about 5,600 square meters (60,278 square feet) of studio space across eight stages, ranging from 300 square meters (3,229 square feet) to 1,100  square meters (11,840 square feet), in addition to extensive production accommodation of 20,000  square meters (215,278 square feet) comprising workshops, offices, assembling sets and costume and artist dressing rooms. The studios will be managed by Guillaume de Menthon, who was the president of Telfrance, o