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2017 / iberian.propery // 5
ISSUE: TOP IBERIAN Investors //editorial
This current issue has the task to track who
are the greatest real estate investors in Spain
and Portugal. It’s a hard task and the result pre-
sents inevitable disparities given the information
available, since different players are subject to
different norms of data transparency.
I have dedicated my life to the market infor-
mation and to promote sharing of data and
intelligence among the real estate, allowing the
best decision-making. But, if all players have the
common desire to access to more information,
the truth is that few are willing to share it, even
regarding basic levels of their activity.
On the basis of the public information available
wemanaged, in this issue, for the first time to pro-
file an investment in Iberia fromSpanish Socimis,
Portuguese Real Estate Funds and, in general,
European societies quoted in regulatedmarkets.
Each one of these entities publishes with high
disclosure the relation of their investments and
their performance. The counterpart are the tax
systems usually with better conditions.
António Gil Machado
DIREcTOR, Iberian Property
Transparency in the
real estate market...
To this one we add the information of entities
which engage themselves professionally to
the assets management, and which under-
stand and accept sharing their activity. The
transparency of information enables an ade-
quate oversight by the society, but especially
by its investors.
The availability of information is a key factor to
a more mature real estate market, helping to
attract more investors. These investors, when
they realize they have the required data to make
their decisions, more easily they adopt more
active strategies of investment, developing a
real estate market with better liquidity.
Iberian Property will always be at the service
of the market, publishing data and information
that enable them to take informed decisions
regarding the real estate markets in Spain and
Portugal. The effort of the current issue is just
a start, acknowledging all the entities which
share their information.