" STE is the smallest of the major listed real estate companies in the service sector. This phrase from Thomas Georgeon, CEO of Société de la Tour eiffel, gives a measure of the progress made by a company that weighed in at just under €700 million in assets in 2014, and is now nipping at the heels of the big boys - Gecina, Icade, SFL and Covivio - with €1.8 billion in real estate assets.