EPF
EPF Hauts-de-France is a French public land establishment founded in 1990 that acquires, recycles, and develops land across the Hauts-de-France region for housing and economic projects. Funded by the TSE regional tax, it serves EPCIs, municipalities, and regional partners.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1990
- HeadquartersLille, France
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What EPF does
EPF Hauts-de-France (Établissement Public Foncier Hauts-de-France) is a French public land establishment (Établissement Public à caractère Industriel et Commercial) founded in 1990 and headquartered in Lille-Euralille. It operates as the regional land banking and recycling operator for the Hauts-de-France region, serving four departments (Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, and northern Aisne) through partnerships with EPCIs, the Métropole Européenne de Lille, the Hauts-de-France Region, and municipalities. With approximately 50 employees as of 2024, the organization's mandate is to acquire, hold, recycle, and develop land for housing and economic projects on behalf of public partners.
Its core activities include land banking (portage foncier), land recycling, construction works coordination, and engineering studies. The technical platform consists primarily of the SIG Portal, a geographic information system for sharing land and planning data with regional partners. In 2024, EPF managed 50 active land operations and 40 construction operations, producing over 2,000 housing units, with 100% of works contracts awarded to regional enterprises. The organization also supports large-scale industrial projects, notably the Groupe Renault gigafactory in Douaisis.
EPF's business model is funded by the Taxe Spéciale d'Équipement (TSE), a dedicated regional tax, rather than commercial pricing. Its strategic direction is set by a five-year Programme Pluriannuel d'Intervention (PPI 2025-2029), and governance is shared between regional authorities and an EPCI college. As a public-sector entity, EPF does not operate on profit-maximizing logic but rather on institutional mandates for regional development, housing production, and land policy execution.
EPF firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- EPF
- Legal name
- Etablissement Public Foncier Hauts de France
- Website
- https://epf-hdf.fr
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1990
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Short description
- EPF Hauts-de-France is a French public land establishment founded in 1990 that acquires, recycles, and develops land across the Hauts-de-France region for housing and economic projects. Funded by the TSE regional tax, it serves EPCIs, municipalities, and regional partners.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Where EPF is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Lille
- HQ country
- France
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
EPF business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others
Revenue model
- Taxe Spéciale d'Équipement (TSE): The TSE is a local additional tax added to the four direct local taxes (property tax on built properties, property tax on undeveloped properties, housing tax, and business contribution). It finances the acquisition, holding, and development missions of the EPF.
- Land Banking Services: Public land banking services to territorial collectivities - acquiring properties and carrying out work (securization, deconstruction, depollution, renaturation) on behalf of municipalities
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels2 records
Marketing channels5 records
EPF product offering
Product offeringCore offering
EPF Hauts-de-France is a regional public land operator that acquires, holds, prepares and recycles land on behalf of territorial collectivities in the Hauts-de-France region. Its services span portage foncier (land banking/holding), recyclage foncier (brownfield recycling including deconstruction, depollution and renaturation) and ingénierie foncière (engineering and advisory support), delivered free of charge to eligible public authorities and funded by the Taxe Spéciale d'Équipement (TSE).
Product overview
EPF Hauts-de-France operates as a public land operator offering a unified portfolio of land management services rather than a software product platform. The core offering centers on land banking (portage foncier) and land recycling services, supported by an interactive SIG (Geographic Information System) portal for territorial visualization. Additional services include construction work services (travaux) covering deconstruction, asbestos removal, pollution treatment, and renaturation, plus land engineering consulting to help communities define their land strategy. The organization is structured around its PPI 2025-2029 multiannual intervention program and maintains a dematerialized public procurement platform. The SIG portal serves as the primary digital interface for stakeholders to view and track operations at various territorial scales.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Portage Foncier (Public Land Banking) Acquisition and temporary holding (portage) of land and real estate assets on behalf of territorial collectivities in Hauts-de-France. Allows local authorities to secure strategic land without upfront budget impact and to defer acquisition costs over the holding period. Targets communes, EPCI and metropolises in the Hauts-de-France region.
- Recyclage Foncier (Brownfield Land Recycling) End-to-end brownfield recycling including deconstruction of obsolete buildings, soil and subsoil depollution, and ecological renaturation of former industrial or degraded sites. The service prepares parcels for housing, economic activity or ecological restoration. Delivered to territorial collectivities in Hauts-de-France.
- Ingénierie Foncière (Land Engineering Advisory) Technical and strategic advisory for territorial collectivities covering land strategy, feasibility studies, project structuring and operational support for urban development operations. Serves communes, EPCI and metropolises of Hauts-de-France.
- Portail SIG (Geographic Information System Portal) Online Geographic Information System (SIG) portal exposing spatial land data, cartographic layers and EPF interventions across Hauts-de-France. Available publicly to territorial collectivities, partners and citizens.
Quantifiable outcome
- 2,000+ housing units produced through cessions in 2024
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use EPF
Customer profileNamed customers10 records
Segments2 records
Ideal customer profiles1 record
EPF technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature1 record
EPF partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Métropole Européenne de LillecorePartnership for urban transformation projects including deconstruction of former industrial sites. Convention signed for joint operations such as the Mouvaux project involving acquisition, curage, désamiantage, and demolition work.
- Communauté de Communes de la Région d'AudruicqcoreEPCI representing Pas-de-Calais department, elected to sit on the Board of Directors of EPF Hauts-de-France.
- Communauté d'Agglomération du Saint-QuentinoiscoreEPCI representing the Aisne department, elected to sit on the Board of Directors of EPF Hauts-de-France as part of the governance renewal.
- COMMUNAUTÉ D'AGGLOMÉRATION DU PAYS DE LAONcoreEPCI representing Aisne department, member by right of the EPF Board of Directors.
- Communauté d'Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer (CAPSO)coreEPCI representing Pas-de-Calais department, elected to sit on the Board of Directors of EPF Hauts-de-France.
- Communauté de Communes des 7 ValléescoreEPCI representing Pas-de-Calais department, elected to sit on the Board of Directors of EPF Hauts-de-France.
- Communauté Urbaine d'ArrascoreEPCI representing Pas-de-Calais department, member by right of the EPF Board of Directors.
- Communauté de Communes du VimeucoreEPCI representing Somme department, elected to sit on the Board of Directors of EPF Hauts-de-France.
- Communauté de Communes de la Haute SommecoreEPCI representing Somme department, elected to sit on the Board of Directors of EPF Hauts-de-France.
- Communauté de Communes Nièvre et SommecoreEPCI representing Somme department, elected to sit on the Board of Directors of EPF Hauts-de-France.
- Amiens MétropolecoreMetropolitan area representing Somme department, member by right of the EPF Board of Directors.
- AD INGEminorProject management (Maître d'Oeuvre) for deconstruction and urban transformation projects.
- RENARDminorDemolition contractor for urban transformation projects.
- EIFFAGEminorStructural support contractor for urban transformation projects.
- Groupe RenaultcorePartnership enabling gigafactory development in Douai through land assembly with EPF and Communauté d'Agglomération du Douaisis, enabling automotive production of city cars in Hauts-de-France.
- Communauté d'Agglomération du DouaisiscorePartnership with EPF and Groupe Renault for gigafactory project enabling industrial reindustrialization in Douai region.
Scale indicators8 records
Recent moves5 records
Expansion highlights4 records
EPF competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- EPF Île-de-France (EPFIF): Public land establishment serving the Île-de-France region. Performs the same mission as EPF Hauts-de-France (land acquisition, banking, recycling, deconstruction, depollution) under the same EPIC framework, differing only by territorial scope.
- EPF Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (EPFRA): Public land establishment serving the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Operates under the same EPIC framework with equivalent land banking, recycling, and works missions, providing a directly comparable peer for benchmarking scale and operations.
- EPF Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Public land establishment serving the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Same EPIC mission and toolset (portage foncier, recyclage foncier, travaux) with regional territorial focus, making it a directly comparable peer in scale and operating model.
- EPF Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA): Public land establishment serving the PACA region. Performs land acquisition, banking, and recycling under the same EPIC framework, making it a directly comparable peer for understanding regional differences in project mix.
- EPF Occitanie: Public land establishment serving the Occitanie region. Directly comparable in mission and regulatory framework, differing only in geographic coverage and territorial economic profile.
- EPF Grand Est: Public land establishment serving the Grand Est region. Shares the EPIC framework and full suite of land banking and recycling tools with EPF Hauts-de-France, serving as a directly comparable peer for regional benchmarking.
- EPF Normandie: Public land establishment serving the Normandie region. Same EPIC mandate covering portage foncier, recyclage foncier and travaux, making it a directly comparable peer.
- EPF Bretagne: Public land establishment serving the Bretagne region. Operates under the same EPIC framework and mission, providing directly comparable benchmarking on operations, governance, and TSE-funded activities.
- EPF Pays de la Loire: Public land establishment serving the Pays de la Loire region. Performs the same land banking, recycling, and works missions under the EPIC framework, providing a directly comparable peer for operations and pipeline analysis.
Emerging players
- SAFER (Société d'aménagement foncier et d'établissement rural): Network of French agricultural land agencies with overlapping land assembly and stewardship missions but focused on rural and agricultural land rather than urban brownfield recycling. Comparable as a sister public-interest land operator with partially overlapping capabilities.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks4 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
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Frequently asked questions about EPF
What does EPF do?
EPF Hauts-de-France is a regional public land operator that acquires, holds, prepares and recycles land on behalf of territorial collectivities in the Hauts-de-France region. Its services span portage foncier (land banking/holding), recyclage foncier (brownfield recycling including deconstruction, depollution and renaturation) and ingénierie foncière (engineering and advisory support), delivered free of charge to eligible public authorities and funded by the Taxe Spéciale d'Équipement (TSE).
Is EPF a public or private company?
EPF is a private company. It is classified as state government owned and is currently operating.
When was EPF founded?
EPF was founded in 1990. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is EPF based?
EPF is headquartered in Lille, France, in the Europe region.
How does EPF make money?
Two revenue lines are on record. Taxe Spéciale d'Équipement (TSE) is the primary driver. The others are land Banking Services.
Who are EPF's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are EPF Île-de-France (EPFIF), EPF Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (EPFRA), EPF Nouvelle-Aquitaine, EPF Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA), EPF Occitanie, EPF Grand Est, EPF Normandie, EPF Bretagne and EPF Pays de la Loire. SAFER (Société d'aménagement foncier et d'établissement rural) is listed as an emerging player.
Does EPF have an API?
No public API is recorded for EPF.