CoStar carried the first closing of Crayon Jaune on its French edition on 19 November 2025, taking the rent-to-own residential fund to an international real estate readership.

On 19 November 2025, CoStar carried the first closing of Crayon Jaune on its French edition, under the heading Premier closing pour le nouveau fonds de Crayon Partners.
It is the same report as the one published by Business Immo the same day, which CoStar acquired, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What changes is the readership. CoStar is the reference data platform for commercial real estate on both sides of the Atlantic, and its audience is largely made up of people who look at residential as an asset class rather than as housing policy.
Having rent-to-own described there, in the language of closings and portfolios, is exactly the shift the vehicle was built to produce.
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