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FOTOCASA WILL BE A BMP SPONSOR FOR NINTH YEAR IN A ROW
Fotocasa.es, the leading real estate search portal in Spain, with an offer of more than 1,000,000 properties and more than 5 millions visits per month, certified by AT Internet. fotocasa.es objective is the matching of the real estate market offer and demand. To achieve this, it provides to all its users the necessary tools for advertising and promoting properties for both, private sellers and real estate professionals. fotocasa.es provides to all its users the information needed to always take the right decisions. For this, it has a specialized are in its website with mortgage rates and products. fotocasa.es also has a channel with real estate news and another channel specialized in reforms and decoration, where you can pick ideas. fotocasa.es along with IESE Business School, does the fotocasa.es Real Estate Index, a rigorous inform that gathers the evolution of the housing average prince in Spain.
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ASSOCIACIÓ API
API Association – Agents i Pèrits Immobiliaris is a nonprofit professional association founded in 1900. Our main objective is to defend and promote the interests of the real estate professional who voluntarily have joined our association. We are national level association that provides its services through its provincial delegations, thus being accessible to all our members. Our members are professional and entrepreneurs from all aspects of the real estate sector, specially the brokerage. For this, the association offers a series of services such as MLS, free real estate software, legal advice, more than 80n types of contracts, a forum both informative and private so our members can share information, ask questions, and do business among others through our website at www.api.casa. Our long experience let us know exactly the needs and worries of our members and provide an effective and quick answer to the needs of the challenging times they now face. The strength and character that being an association is complemented by the experience and knowledge of our members, who have being in the business for a long time thus making us a reference of professionalism, responsibility and knowledge.
C O A P I A BMP LEADING SPONSOR
The professional real estate agents organization API, with over 2.000 members registered in the Catalan government’s Estate Agents Register, is the largest real estate agents association in Catalonia. After more than 50 years of existence and having an expert knowledge on real estate market, we offer our members value-added services which help and improve their businesses in order to achieve success as well as we provide consumers with rigorous and transparent information on the property market.
MERLIN PROPERTIES
SERÁ CO-PATROCINADOR DEL BARCELONA FUNDS MEETING
MERLIN Properties SOCIMI, S.A. is one of the leading real estate companies listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange (IBEX-35), focused on the acquisition and management of commercial assets in the Iberian Peninsula. The Company has elected to become a SOCIMI (Spanish REIT regime). The principal activity of the Company is the acquisition, active management, operation and selective rotation of commercial real estate assets in the segment of “Core” and “Core Plus”, mainly in Spain and to a lesser extent in Portugal. The Company is focused on the office, retail, logistics and urban hotels markets.
C B R E
A BMP SPONSOR FOR 16TH YEAR IN A ROW
CBRE, a consulting and real estate services company, worldwide leader, strengthens its leadership in Barcelona’s real estate after the opening of its new offices in the city. The move was the consequence of the 62% growth of the Barcelona team, composed by 140 professionals. As specialist in Workplace solutions, the new offices have been designed by CBRE itself and equipped with the latest efficiency and technological tools, with the goal to increase productivity by 30%, save energy by 12%, and employee satisfaction by 76%. CBRE Barcelona office has led some of the most relevant operations in Barcelona’s real estate. Among them, we highlight, that in July 2016, CBRE Hotels advised AXA Investment Managers, Real Assets the sale of the Barcelona Skipper Pullman hotel to a Luxembourg investment fund. CBRE also advised the purchase of Diagonal Mar shopping mall to Northwood, the same year. These operations show the purpose of the company: build on advantage, work daily to increase competitive advantages for all our clients: investors, Public Institutions, financial institutions, property owners and leasers: inversores, Administraciones Públicas, entidades financieras, propietarios y ocupantes.
A G U I R R E N E W M A N
Aguirre Newman Aguirre is the real estate consultancy market leader in Spain and Portugal with €94M turnover in 2015. During the last 28 years, Aguirre Newman has advised national and international important clients offering its services and experience on the most important real estate market transactions. Present in European and American Markets, Aguirre Newman has more than 420 highly qualified and specialized professionals in our offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Lisbon, London, Mexico City and Bogota.
JLL
WILL BE A BARCELONA FUNDS MEETING CO-SPONSOR
JLL is a global professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. Thanks to our global footprint, we can service the needs of our clients from over 300 offices located in more than 80 countries on five continents. With a prominent presence in the leading financial and industrial hubs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, our team of over 77,000 professionals applies the firm’s global approach to provide services on a local level and help our clients achieve their business ambitions. Through our Investor Business area, which provides services to companies specializing in the real estate business, we dedicate the time necessary to understand fully the investment philosophy and strategy of our clients to allow us to respond efficiently when the market cycles generate opportunities for their portfolios.
Deloitte is the number one private company for professional services around the world, with presence in 150 countries and more than 225,000 employees. In Spain, Deloitte is the leading company in the market and has more than 7,000 employees. The services it provides are gathered in five main areas: financial advisory, consultancy, juridical and fiscal consultancy, and audit services. The Real Estate brand is part of the financial advisory department that, at an international level, generates benefits of more than 800 million dollars. The Deloitte Financial Advisory department in Spain gathers more than 70 professionals specialized in offering solutions that cover all the investment and real estate management scope.
METROVACESA
WILL BE A BMP SPONSOR FOR THE FIRST TIME
With almost 100 years in the real estate sector, Metrovacesa has a solid tradition as complete development: urban and land development planning, development and sales. The objective of the company is to keep with its leading vocation that has characterized Metrovacesa for almost a century, and reinforcing its markets position with the support of its stockholders. Metrovacesa represents a new model of real estate focused on residential development, managing and developing projects in high demand areas of Spain. The company has as of now, assets worth over €2.6 billion, and a land portfolio with more than 6 million of s.q. available for development, that allows to develop more than 40,000 housing units throughout Spain. Taking advantage of its deep knowledge of the residential market and large presence throughout Spain, Metrovacesa will put on motion new and relevant projects focusing the activity in Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, and Valencia. Metrovacesa has taken its chances with some assets in strategic locations under development that will become areas of reference in the long term.
HISPANIA AZORA
Hispania is a real estate investment trust (SOCIMI) listed in the Spanish market, which was born in March 2014. Hispania is externally managed by Azora, one of the main private equity managers specialising in real estate. Hispania has a total Gross Asset Value (GAV) of 2,339 million euro, distributed through hotels (64%), offices (25%) and residential (11%). Its market capitalization totals 1.7 billion euro and within the last 12 months Hispania has delivered a total shareholders return of 27%. Hispania is the leading hotel owner in Spain with a portfolio of more than 11,200 keys in the main vacational destinations within Spain. The portfolio is located primarily in the Canary Islands (68%), which is a unique market in Spain as it has the benefit of operating through a 12 month season. The second largest market for Hispania is the Balearic Islands, where 17% of the total hotel portfolio is located.
COLONIAL
Grupo Colonial is a real estate company leader in the office space prime location in Europe, with presence in the main business areas of Barcelona, Madrid and Paris with a portfolio of 850,00 sq.m. valued at more than €7.5 billion.Colonial trades in the Spanish Stock Exchange with a capitalization close to €2.4 billion.
ST - SOCIEDAD DE TASACIÓN
ST Sociedad de Tasación is one of the leading independent Real Estate Valuation firms in Spain. The company is specialized in the valuation of all type of real estate assets. Its activity started in 1982 when ST Sociedad de Tasación, was the first Spanish valuation company registered in the country. Since then it has delivered more than three million valuations, with an appraised value of more than 2000 billion Euros. ST was the first company in Spain to develop the first housing price index published in the market and is leading company in the generation of real estate information and statistics. ST Sociedad de Tasación Group companies, offer a great diversity of services within the real estate market: Mortgage Appraisals (ECO), RICS Valuations, Automated Valuation Models, Advice in Portfolio Valuations, Energy Performance Certificates , Real Estate Consultancy, Project Monitoring and IT developments for the real estate industry. The group with 13 offices, 190 employees and more than 600 independent professionals (architects and engineers) is present all over the Spanish territory. More information at www.st-tasacion.es/en
