List of the 150 Largest Real Estate Investors Spain [2023 Update]

Product Overview

Includes institutional investors, investment managers, project developers, real estate companies, REITs and pension funds that actively acquire real estate in Spain.

Excellent depth of detail: purchase profile (asset classes and regional focus), link to purchase profile and assets under management if available, contact details, management board, etc.

This list is based on our list of the 1,200 largest real estate investors in Europe.

High-quality lists thanks to manual data maintenance by an experienced research team in Munich. Boutique research instead of unchecked crawler data.

List of 3 large real estate investors in Spain

To give you a better idea of our list, we briefly introduce three companies that are included in our address database of the largest Spanish real estate buyers. Our team deals intensively with the respective markets and analyses the most important players in detail before we prepare our lists. In this way we ensure that the most relevant companies are really included in our overviews and that you don’t acquire outdated data.

1. Merlin Properties (Madrid) - focus on Spain & Portugal

The real estate investor Merlin Properties is based in Madrid. The company focuses on commercial properties in Spain and Portugal and is one of the largest listed companies in Spain. The portfolio includes office properties, retail properties and shopping centres, logistics properties and hotels. The company invests primarily in Madrid and Barcelona, but has assets throughout Spain and Portugal.

Update 2023: Spanish real estate investor Merlin Properties acquired one of the most iconic properties in Lisbon at the end of 2022 for approximately EUR 113 million; specifically, the Novobanco headquarters on Avenida da Liberdade. According to experts, it was even the biggest real estate deal in Portugal in the complete last year.

2. CORESTATE (Luxembourg) - focus on student housing, micro apartments & office

With CORESTATE , one of the largest European investors is also active in Spain. Although the company’s regional focus is on Germany, some high-profile purchases are also being made on the Iberian Peninsula. They include a student residence in Seville and activities in the co-living segment together with MEDICI LIVING.

3. ORES Socimi (Madrid) - focus on retail in Spain & Portugal

Our database contains not only large, globally active buyers, but also smaller specialized companies with a regional focus. A good example of this is ORES Socimi. This investor focuses entirely on retail properties and invests in shopping centers, retail properties and commercial properties for use in the retail segment (e.g. supermarkets). The company has been active on the market for 25 years and is one of the most important contacts in Spain in this asset class.