SIMA 2025 concluded today, reaffirming its role as a key platform for the Spanish real estate sector. This year’s event welcomed over 21,000 visitors, surpassing the participation levels of previous editions and emphasizing Madrid’s position as the epicenter for housing debate, investment, and commercialization in Europe.
Over four days, SIMA showcased a broader and more varied residential offering, featuring more than 17,000 properties on the market, ranging from primary residences to holiday homes, alongside an increasing presence of investment-related services and offerings.
This year’s residential offerings were geographically distributed, with the Community of Madrid featuring prominently, accounting for nearly half of the available properties. The remaining 40% were spread across other provinces, with notable representation from tourist hotspots such as Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol, and the broader Mediterranean arc, as well as northern regions like Galicia, Cantabria, and Asturias. The international market also gained prominence this year, with destinations such as the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, France, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United States, and the Middle East reinforcing SIMA’s global dimension.
The first home buyer profile remained the most common among private visitors (61%), followed by small investors (27%), and second house buyers (12%).
Eloy Bohúa, CEO of Planner Exhibitions, highlighted, “SIMA 2025 has once again proven its strength as a commercial space and its strategic role as a meeting point for all stakeholders in the residential real estate sector. This edition has been one of the most comprehensive, ambitious, and representative of the transformation the sector is undergoing.” Bohúa also expressed gratitude for the participation of all entities involved and the support of key institutions such as the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, the Community of Madrid, the Madrid City Council, and ASPRIMA.
Attracting international capital and housing production: the highlights of this edition
SIMA’s professional programme has been one of the cornerstones of this year’s edition. Over three days, 200 speakers took part in more than 70 sessions in which the main structural challenges facing the real estate sector were addressed in depth and from multiple perspectives.
One of the main highlights was the Living Investors Day, which brought together prominent institutional funds and international asset managers, consolidating SIMA as a strategic platform for attracting international capital to the Spanish residential market. The growing demand for housing in Spain, especially in Madrid, as well as in other major Iberian cities, mainly Málaga, Valencia, and Lisbon, along with the sector’s dynamism and interest in new Living formats, were at the centre of the debates on investment opportunities. Experts highlighted Madrid as one of the most liquid and attractive markets in Europe, with a growing demographic pressure that requires doubling the current levels of residential production.
SIMA has also been the place where the importance of public-private collaboration as a lever to generate more housing has been highlighted. At the Best Practices Forum, various regional and municipal administrations presented replicable initiatives and regulatory measures to streamline land development, rationalise procedures and reinforce legal certainty.
PROPTECH EXPO celebrated a consolidation edition, with more participating companies, a more ambitious conference program, and an agenda marked by artificial intelligence.
SIMA 2025, The Global Hub of Living, has once again been the clearest expression of an evolving real estate sector, seeking real solutions to current housing challenges with a long-term perspective. An essential event to understand where the future of Real Estate is heading.