Bare-ownership is a product that is poorly sold in France. It is too often presented as a defensive, tax-driven, technical investment. That puts off the right clients and attracts those looking for a trick — not for wealth building.
Yet it is precisely long-term wealth building. And it speaks first and foremost to the patrimonial investor.
Who bare-ownership actually suits
The investor who thinks in 15-year horizons, not 12 months. Someone who can place a sum without needing it during the usufruct period. Who is not looking for intermediate yield. Who values the discount at purchase and the recovery of full ownership at term — with no fees or exit tax tied to the mechanism itself. Who values simplicity: no rental management, no uncertainties during the usufruct.
The detail that changes everything: who holds the usufruct
What makes the mechanism solid is who holds the usufruct for those 15 years. On Aristide, it is ADNOVA. We carry the rental risk, the maintenance, the management — out of our own funds.
What is called, in finance, skin in the game.
This changes the nature of the product for the bare-owner. They do not buy a contractual promise from a usufruct holder whose identity they would only discover at signing. They partner with the developer who designed, built and delivered the building — and who carries its economic performance for 15 years.
Construction risk is behind us
A classic off-plan bare-ownership scheme combines two risks: construction execution and usufruct holding over 15 years. If the developer fails midway, the client ends up alone facing matters they never signed up to manage.
On Aristide, the building is delivered. Occupied. The residual risk for the bare-owner is marginal: no construction risk, no potential usufruct default (we are here), no rental uncertainty over 15 years.
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