Crédit Foncier de France

The Crédit Foncier (English: landed credit) initially made loans to communes.

Similar institutions at Nevers and Marseilles were amalgamated into one under the title of "Crédit Foncier de France".

In French banking terminology, a "credit foncier loan" typically refers to a loan for a fixed period with regular repayments where each repayment includes components of both principal and interest, such that at the end of the period the principal will have been entirely repaid.

Crédit Foncier moved into the Hôtel Castanier as early as 1854,[2] had it remodeled by architect Antoine-Nicolas Bailly, and expanded into the Hotel d'Evreux in 1896.

The property was sold by Crédit Foncier to the Thani family of Qatar in 2003 for 250 million euro,[3] and was comprehensively renovated from 2009.