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            Barcelona Meeting Point
          
        
        
          International Real Estate Show
        
        
          
            29/October – 02/November
          
        
        
          Montjuïc. 18th edition
        
        
          According to the organisers, this latest edition of
        
        
          Barcelona Meeting Point (BMP) confirmed the
        
        
          recovery of the Spanish real estate sector, which
        
        
          which generated satisfactory results in terms of
        
        
          both numbers of commercial transactions and
        
        
          visitors. BMP was a success in terms of both
        
        
          public and sales thanks to the price adjustments
        
        
          made by exhibitors at the show, the presence
        
        
          of large international investment funds and the
        
        
          participation of European, Russian and Chinese
        
        
          investors interested in doing business in Spain.
        
        
          Some 40% of the participating companies were
        
        
          foreign, from 23 countries.
        
        
          As usual, Barcelona Meeting Point revolved
        
        
          around the Professional and International Show,
        
        
          the General Public Show and the International
        
        
          Symposium, a debate forum that brought
        
        
          together 2,500 participants and 97 speakers.
        
        
          More than 38 investment funds took part in
        
        
          the first Barcelona Funds Meeting event,
        
        
          whilst around one hundred European, Russian
        
        
          and Chinese investors took part in the
        
        
          Barcelona Real Estate Cluster Shop, an initiative
        
        
          launched to bring Spanish companies into
        
        
          contact with buyers and estate agents on the
        
        
          international market.
        
        
          The quality of the visitors and the presence
        
        
          of a large number of professionals in the
        
        
          activities organised at Palace 8 at the Montjuïc
        
        
          venue confirmed Barcelona Meeting Point as
        
        
          Spain’s foremost professional and international
        
        
          real estate show and one of the most
        
        
          outstanding in our economic area. According
        
        
          to the organisers, the 2014 edition marked a
        
        
          turning point in both the history of the trade fair
        
        
          and the industry itself.
        
        
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            Area
          
        
        
          20,000 m
        
        
          2
        
        
          
            Exhibitors
          
        
        
          265
        
        
          
            Type
          
        
        
          Professional and public
        
        
          
            Activities
          
        
        
          Conferences, seminars,
        
        
          prizes
        
        
          
            Organised by
          
        
        
          Consorci de
        
        
          la Zona Franca
        
        
          de Barcelona
        
        
          23
        
        
          participating countries