They could have taken the option of "signing three or four real estate deals a year", no more, no less. "It could have been a natural choice," admits Emmanuel Schreder, co-founder and CEO of Catella France between 2001 and 2023. At his side, Claude Cayla, founder and CEO of Catella Residential from 2002 to 2023, agrees: "But we're entrepreneurs in our own right. It's just that we're entrepreneurs at heart," smiles the latter. "The idea of playing a third half together very quickly animated us", they sum up in the main lounge of their offices at 9 avenue Hubert-Germain, Paris 16th. Hence the creation of Hestia Investment Management, an investment and asset management company specializing in real estate transactions with high value-creation potential, whose articles of association were officially filed on May 23, 2023, "at an interesting time in the market", notes Emmanuel Schreder, who didn't want to leave this business "without having done some investing in the real sense of the term" - Claude Cayla was Chairman of the Bellecour real estate company in the past (1998-2001).