Alain Taravella Net Worth

Alain Taravella has an estimated net worth of $2 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Alain Taravella profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is up from $1.9 billion in 2019.

Alain Taravella is a French entrepreneur and the cofounder, chairman and CEO of Altarea Cogedim, which Forbes calls France's third-largest real estate development firm. He was born on 24 May 1948, and Forbes describes him as self-made.

He graduated from HEC Paris in 1971. He has said he paid for his studies by doing real estate deals on apartments in Parly. In 1975 he joined the Brémond group, a real estate developer, where he ran the leisure division. The group became Pierre & Vacances in 1978, and he became its CEO in 1985.

That experience in leisure property and development gave him the know-how to start his own company, which he did in the mid-1990s during a slump in the French property market.

How Alain Taravella made his money

Taravella founded Altarea in 1994 as a shopping center developer. He used the downturn of the early 1990s to buy land in large amounts. In 1999 he worked on the Bercy Village project in Paris, which Altarea marketed.

He took the company public in 2004, and in 2007 it bought Cogedim, a developer of housing and offices, to form Altarea Cogedim. In 2010 he led the purchase of Cap 3000 in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, one of the oldest regional shopping centers in France, and in 2011 the group bought the RueDuCommerce shopping site, which it sold to Carrefour in 2016.

Headquartered in Paris, the firm also works in Spain and Italy and has revenue of about $3 billion. Taravella still owns 45% of the group, which is where most of his wealth comes from.

Taravella's approach has been to buy when others are selling. He started Altarea in a weak market, kept adding land and projects through later cycles, and built a group that now spans homes, offices, shopping centers and online retail ventures. He remains closely tied to the company he started three decades ago.

How Forbes has valued Alain Taravella

Forbes valued Taravella at $1.9 billion in 2019. His figure fell to $1.3 billion in 2020, rebounded to $2 billion in 2021 and then drifted lower, to $1.9 billion in 2022, $1.7 billion in 2023 and $1.5 billion in 2024.

It recovered to $1.9 billion in 2025 and rose to $2.7 billion on the 2026 World's Billionaires List, his highest figure. As of October 20, 2026, the Forbes real-time billionaires tracker showed $2 billion.