Jordi Cornet’s Welcome Letter

BMP COMMITS ITSELF TO INNOVATION AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Barcelona Meeting Point, which has just turned 21, gathers in one venue the solidity of its experience with the energy of the youth, resulting in an international meeting place focused in knowledge that professionals and citizens can’t miss.

We are especially proud of the deepening of the exhibitions’ contents at a time when the real estate industry is consolidating itself as an investment option for the international funds, family offices and other agents, and as an essential tool for a family’s wellbeing.

10 years after the outburst of the economic-real estate crisis, the real estate industry has confirmed itself as the most reliable and profitable investment option at any scale.

The real estate industry faces very good news. With a growing activity and a 16% increase in mortgages between June 2017 and 2017, the demand for residential property in Spain is expected to increase to 500,000 units between 2017 and 2018. As the favorite investment destinations in Europe, our country is the ninth in real estate investment at a world scale, with a 70% of international investment operations, as our Barcelona Funds Meeting attendees are aware of.

This new industry is a living proof of its potential and its hunger for success, with a rapidly advancing digitalization thanks to PropTech and to the professional excellence in the industry. The new real estate companies and their professionals are global, digital and don’t want to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

We see how the market and the real estate supply for the millenials have also changed. In this sense, aspects such as efficiency, sustainability, new materials, new market analysis and the application of smart solutions and new technologies play a very important role.

As we commit ourselves to the management of a property as a good at all the social scales’ reach, our exhibition will host sessions on affordable and rental properties, it will debate about gentrification, and the prices’ pressure. The existence of a portfolio of public housing and that the rental market becomes a profitable business again are both on the table. El Consorci de la Zona Franca and the public administrations, with the government of Spain by its side, have always been aligned with the real estate market. Barcelona’s, our city, has a unique trademark around the world, which is also a great incentive that favors BMP. Everything has contributed to having more and more companies and professionals at our exhibition, at Europe’s real estate gathering in the Autumn.

Thus, please allow me with these lines to thank the support of our sponsors, collaborators and exhibitors so that BMP goes on being an exhibition of reference, professional, profitable, and useful.

Looking forward to meeting you in person at the Exhibition, I hope that you enjoy a very successful BMP,

Yours,

Jordi Cornet Special Delegate of the State at the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona President of Barcelona Meeting Point

BUILDING CENTER A BMP MAIN SPONSOR

BuildingCenter is the wholly-owned subsidiary of CaixaBank specialising in handling property assets of all kinds: residential, industrial, commercial, hotels and land. It works on both the retail and investment markets. BuildingCenter has over 15,000 homes available for sale and a stock of 28,000 homes for rent, as well as over 17,000 sites and more than 1,500 special assets aimed particularly at investors, spread throughout Spain. Moreover, BuildingCenter currently has over 220 new-build developments under way and finished developments, which will result in 6,300 highly attractive, quality homes with contemporary designs, in excellent locations. Visit us at the Barcelona Meeting Point and find out at first hand who we are and what we have to offer you.

SERVIHABITAT A BMP MAIN SPONSOR

Servihabitat is the leading servicer offering comprehensive management services for developer credit and mortgage loan portfolios, as well as real estate assets. The company’s more than 25 years of experience in the market and the high volume of assets managed strengthen its position as the industry leader. A highly qualified professional team and its own technology platform provide Servihabitat with an independent and differentiated operational methodology, able to manage all the requirements of the financial and real estate assets operational management cycle. Servihabitat currently manages a portfolio of about 50 billion Euros, which includes financial and real estate assets. The Company has the largest rental portfolio in the market, closing 2016 with the management of more than 60,000 units. Servihabitat has more than 7,000 points of sale as well as the website www. servihabitat.com, positioned as the first real estate service site on the market, according to the digital audience measurement ranking comScore.

CAIXABANK A BMP MAIN SPONSOR

CaixaBank is leader in retail banking in Spain, with a 25.7% share among individual customers who make it their main bank. The bank, headed by chairman Jordi Gual, and led by CEO, Gonzalo Gortázar, has around 16 million customers in Spain and Portugal, with 5,468 branches, the largest commercial network in the Iberian peninsula. The entity is considered a leader in innovation in financial services worldwide, with 5.5 million online banking customers, of which 3.9 perform transactions using a mobile phone. It also fully owns VidaCaixa and CaixaBank AM, leading insurance and management companies in Spain, respectively, allowing the bank to maintain a position of leadership in insurance products, plans and funds, with a market share of 21.7%. The entity stands out among its peers for its involvement in and unwavering commitment to society. CaixaBank’s approach to operating in the banking business is based on corporate values of quality, trust and social commitment. For this reason it is considered to be one of the world’s most sustainable banks by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. CaixaBank has been named “Best Bank in Spain 2017” by the UK magazine Euromoney for the fourth consecutive year. This year, Euromoney named CaixaBank, the “Best Private Bank in Spain” for the third time in a row and New York magazine Global Finance also recognised the entity as the “Best Bank in Spain 2017”. CaixaBank will be present in this new edition of BMP and visitors will be offered a wide range of financial products and services for housing acquisition.

LA VANGUARDIA

WILL SPONSOR FOR 21ST YEAR INA A ROW, THE GENERAL ATTENDANCE EXHIBITION

LA VANGUARDIA a Grupo Godó company is one of the most read newspapers in Spain and number one in Catalonia. It publishes the supplement “La Vanguardia Inmobiliaria”, a reference for the real estate industry. LA VANGUARDIA publishes daily the latest real estate offers. Every Sunday, LA VANGUARDIA publishes “LOS CLASIFICADOS”, a listing of the most relevant offers of the industry. In addition to all these, at LA VANGUARDIA’s website one can find YAENCONTRE - www.yaencontre.com, which has a large real estate portfolio. Thanks to this wide range of products, LA VANGUARDIA not only maintains a strong leadership position in the Catalonian real estate communications market, but it has become a main component of every player in this industry as well when preparing highly effective communication campaigns.

N E I N O R

WILL BE A BMP LEADING SPONSOR

Neinor Homes leads the Spanish residential marked with a a portfolio of land ready to be develop worth over €1.3 billion (1.3 million sq) to develop almost 12,000 housing units in Madrid, Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Basc Country, Andalusia and Valencia. Its three main business lines are: institunalization, client, and product. Neinor Homes leads the transformation of the real estate sector with the development of comfortable and sustainable homes. In its compromise with innovation, the company works to develop new products and services that improve its product excellence and its customer service. With almost 30 years of experience in the residential sector, Neinor Homes reached a new milestone on March 29th, 2017, when started trading in the Spanish Stock market, with the largest IPO of a real estate developer in Europe.

ANTICIPA REAL ESTATE

WILL BE A “BARCELONA FUNDS MEETING”CO-SPONSOR

Anticipa Real Estate is a company specialized in real estate and mortgage loan management. It manages €7.5 billion assets. The company has a portfolio of 13,000 rental properties and 6,000 properties for sale. Located throughout Spanish territory, atomized with a higher concentration in Catalonia, Madrid, Levante and Andalusia. With a markedly customer focus and continuous adaption to its needs, the solutions offered by Anticipa are ruled by the principles of transparency, flexibility and innovation. Headquartered in Barcelona, the company operates all over Spain through their delegations in Madrid, Malaga and Valencia. Anticipa’s team is made up of 360 professionals who have extensive experience in the real estate and financial sector and its dynamics. The two areas of the business are supported with two powerful technological platforms, allowing the carrying out of exhaustive, large-scale processes both in terms of loan management and properties on the real estate, while at the same time allowing scalability of the process.

IBERDROLA INMOBILIARIA WILL BE A BMP SPONSOR

Iberdrola Inmobiliaria, is the leading company of the grupo Iberdrola real estate business services, dedicated to the development for itself or third parties of all sort of real estate assets, for its sale or exploitation. Also, it is in charge of the urban planning of lots for development or sale to third parties.

ENGEL & VÖLKERS A BMP LEADING S P O N S O R

LEngel & Völkers is a leading real estate company specialized in the brokerage of premium residential property and is currently present in 34 countries with over 700 locations. Its international network and extensive knowledge on each of the local markets are the key to success that allowed Engel & Völkers to obtain in 2016 the higher revenues in its almost 40 years of history (506,3 million euros). In Spain, some shops have generated more than one million euros in commissions so far this year. Therefore, in the first half of 2017 the company has grown around 32% over the same period last year. Engel & Völkers, leading sponsor of Barcelona Meeting Point, will present its portfolio of exclusive properties in Barcelona, Sant Just, Blanes, La Cerdaña and Andorra to professionals and investors who are aware of the interest of these areas. In addition, they will also offer the possibility to see new buildings that in total are 67 new real estate development through virtual reality with a new generation of glasses.