The event was attended by more than 100 investors and industry professionals, with participation from JLL, Mutualidad de la Abogacía, Manova Partners, Fortia Energía, and IAM Carbonzero.
After welcoming all attendees, Carlos Díaz Gridilla, general manager of Mapfre Inmuebles, highlighted the strong performance of Spain’s investment market, which recorded a record number of transactions in the first half of the year. “Spain is now a place everyone wants to invest in,” he noted.
The event featured two panel discussions. In the first, moderated by Carlos Díaz Gridilla, three industry executives (Enrique Losantos, country CEO Spain and head of LatAm-EMEA Distribution at JLL; Carlos Pérez Baz, head of Real Estate Investments at Mutualidad de la Abogacía; and Christian Goebel, co-CEO of Manova Partners) analyzed investment market trends in the real estate sector across Spain and Europe.
The second panel, moderated by José Marcos González Conejero, CEO of IAM Carbonzero, brought together Blanca Losada Martín, chairwoman of Fortia Energía, and Antonio Sancha Naranjo, former executive at Monsanto and Bayer, to discuss infrastructure challenges in an international context marked by the pursuit of greater strategic autonomy to strengthen energy and food security.
The event also provided an opportunity to analyze economic developments and emerging social trends. In one of the discussions, Gonzalo de Cadenas Santiago, director of Macroeconomics and Financial Analysis at Mapfre Economics, spoke with Diego Rodríguez Rodríguez, professor of economics at the Complutense University of Madrid and a researcher at Fedea, about how Spain is facing a period marked by challenges related to energy supply security, geopolitical uncertainty, and regulatory barriers.
Later on, Juan Bernal, Mapfre’s group chief investment officer, and Juan Fernández Palacios, general manager of Fundación Mapfre’s Ageingnomics Research Center, discussed aging and investment in a society that’s living longer and better. The gradual aging of society is a silent revolution that must be addressed, and the role played by the senior generation – those aged 55 and older – will be key.
Mapfre Inmuebles hopes that this event will not only foster the exchange of ideas but also establish itself as a leading annual gathering for key players in the real assets sector, providing a networking platform for specialist investors. The event, which was held at Fundación Mapfre’s headquarters in downtown Madrid, concluded with a visit to the exhibition Pre-Raphaelitism: Female Itineraries (1850–1914).
Mapfre Inmuebles currently manages and oversees a portfolio of assets, primarily office properties, with a market value of €3.2 billion across 25 countries, mainly in Spain, Western Europe, and Latin America. In recent years, Mapfre has developed an investment strategy focused on alternative assets through fund structures. Mapfre Inmuebles has formed partnerships with leading firms such as Swiss Life, Manova Partners, and Munich Re, enabling it to invest more than €1 billion in real estate assets through funds. Its strategy focuses on prime office buildings in major European cities for leasing purposes.
