The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage, develop, finance, build and sell real estate, as well as to operate business properties. It can also trade in goods of all kinds, conduct financial and trust transactions, and provide consulting services. The company can participate in other companies, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, acquire and sell real estate, and engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that directly or indirectly promote the company's purpose or are related to it. The company can also participate in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies, or by providing security of all kinds for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies and are provided free of charge.