Brikiz : a royal path to passive income
At a time when French citizens are finding it increasingly difficult to access homeownership and pensions are drying up, rental investment appears to many as a true Homeric odyssey. Between increasingly restrictive access to credit, the multiplication of energy standards, price volatility, and the proliferation of real estate investment charlatans, individuals face a double difficulty: the absence of reliable and centralized tools, and an abundance of information that is sometimes contradictory. Worse, it can even be the people around them who contribute to a paralysis that inhibits any initiative.
Over five years of support and more than 5,000 profiles reviewed, Jérémy Négrier, founder of Brikiz, observes that the average citizen has neither reliable tools, nor unified sources, nor the necessary skills to interpret the mass of data they receive. For Jérémy, real estate far from being a dying sector remains solid and promising, provided one knows how to read it.
The Founder
The story of Brikiz is inseparable from that of its founder. Coming from a modest background and raised in a small town of fewer than 5,000 inhabitants by an electrician father and a stay at home mother, Jérémy Négrier left high school at 15. He chained together temporary jobs before discovering, through renovation work, a first concrete contact with real estate assets. At 23, he created his renovation company and learned, through projects and encounters, the patrimonial strategies others had used to build a retirement fund or regular income.
The sudden illness of his father, followed by his death within months, forced him to abandon his activity and take responsibility for his family. He found himself in debt but determined never to depend on a salary again. Reading Olivier Seban (Everyone Deserves to Be Rich) marked a turning point; real estate was no longer a distant universe but an accessible, repeatable, and liberating strategy. He attended seminars, gradually acquired several properties, and discovered that real estate offered the stability his life story had deprived him of. “Real estate is security,” he repeats.
Brikiz
Brikiz guides its users step by step toward acquiring rental real estate, including calculating borrowing capacity and analyzing acquisition structures, the sales agreement, and potential renovations. This approach aims both to prevent scams and avoid unintentional mistakes.
During the purchase process, Brikiz anticipates the co-ownership regulations, rent caps, tax aspects of projects, and the need for thermal renovation under the 2021 “Climate and Resilience” law. During renovation, Brikiz checks estimates and requires the contractor’s professional liability insurance and ten-year warranty to avoid disputes. The entire process is then archived in a secure space. User data is stored in such a way that responses become increasingly precise and the application becomes sharper.
Moreover, in the face of an unstable and constantly evolving legal landscape, Brikiz is continuously updated to integrate new regulations and prevent legal non compliance.
A monumental aggregator connecting more than 900 real estate sources, this true API of APIs integrates AI into its operations to detect market anomalies. It identifies unjustified price gaps, weak signals, and undervalued opportunities.
Brikiz nonetheless avoids the pitfall of total automation by allowing verification (upon user request and in case of doubt) by a team of specialized coaches. The goal is to combine algorithmic precision with human vigilance, without claiming that one can replace the other.
Brikiz is also a social network where users can congratulate and support each other throughout their journeys. They can share their progress and interact, thus creating an active community of investors.
Based on the Tripadvisor model, Brikiz allows its members to rate tradespeople, banks, and other specialized agents on the platform in order to improve the experience for other users.
Its educational role is central: choosing a city, interpreting an energy performance certificate, anticipating taxation, or evaluating profitability. The user progresses step by step, without suffering the confusion of scattered and contradictory information. They can also draw inspiration from the achievements of other community members to progress.
Funded by nearly 300,000 euros of personal contributions, Brikiz claims total independence. Its model is based on a €29 per month subscription to make knowledge long reserved for insiders accessible. Brikiz is not just an intermediary but a project-building tool designed to make the investor autonomous and informed.