Dils (real estate) enters France and completes its fourth foreign acquisition

The Milan-based Dils, a specialist in the real estate sector, particularly in the high-street segment, enters the French market with the acquisition of 100% of Eol (Entrepôt On Line).

The cross-border operator has been active in commercial real estate for more than 25 years.

Eol: three hundred transactions a year

Founded in 2000, the company boasts an average of one million square metres transacted in the logistics sector and more than 300 transactions completed each year, drawing on 70 professionals across 10 offices located in the heart of France’s main metropolitan areas.

In 2025 Eol exceeded 15 million euros in revenue.

The entry into France is part of Dils’s broader European expansion strategy, with an existing presence in the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

The acquiring party has planned a major investment programme in the Hexagon, aimed at accelerating growth and bringing innovation to the logistics segment, as well as progressively expanding operations across multiple asset classes, such as offices, hospitality and residential property.

The objective is to create an integrated services platform, headquartered in Paris, which over the next five years could reach approximately 250 professionals and generate annual revenues of around 60 million euros.

Eol’s management, organisation and workforce will remain unchanged.

France: a high-growth real estate market

According to the Dils Research Team, in 2025 the French real estate investment market grew by 10% compared with the previous year, reaching a total volume of approximately 19,4 billion euros.

Offices represent the leading asset class by investment volume, at almost 7 billion euros. They are followed by logistics and living, each with a figure of 4 billion euros.

As regards logistics, in particular, space take-up in France stood at around 3,2 million square metres, compared with approximately 2,2 million in Italy.

Dils: other countries in the pipeline

With Eol, as mentioned, Dils’s expansion process in the European market continues. It began in 2023 with the Dutch commercial real estate services company Van Gool Elburg, and continued in 2024 in Portugal with Castelhana and in 2025 in Spain with Lucas Fox.

In 2025 Dils, which today has approximately 700 professionals, exceeded 100 million euros in consolidated revenue, a result that will accelerate a pipeline that includes further countries: Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom.

Notes Giuseppe Amitrano, founder and CEO of Dils: “In just four years, we have managed to create a solid international platform. We have also exceeded 100 million euros in revenue, one year ahead of the target announced in 2021, a fact that will support our further growth process.”

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