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Roundtable
The Hybrid City: Unlocking Value in Portuguese Offices & Mixed-Use
A senior real estate event with dedicated sessions on
Offices Investments and Mixed-Use opportunities in Portugal
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28 October 2026
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Ana Godoy
Portfolio Director Real EstateGRI Institute
Brazil
Discussion
The Hybrid City
Unlocking Value in Portuguese Offices & Mixed-Use
- Capex Allocation – How are investors balancing new development risk against the retrofit of obsolete stock?
- Margin Resilience – Where rent growth and falling take-up diverge, what does that reveal about the quality of demand? How tenants are proving the asset resilience?
- Institutional Flex – How is flex office integration reshaping traditional lease structures and asset valuations?
- Regional Liquidity - How are investors pricing the yield and risk differentials between Lisbon and Porto?
- The Ecosystem Shift – How far does office value depend on the surrounding urban environment (housing, mobility, amenity)? How to integrate these models into mixed-use schemes?
Joao Cristina
Country ManagerMerlin Properties
Portugal
João Cristina is the Portugal Director of Merlin Properties since 1 January 2018. From 2006 until that time, he held Investment Management positions at Rockspring PIM and Orion Capital Managers, all based in Madrid. He returned to Portugal, during 2014, to assume the General Manager role in SILCOGE, a leading Portuguese real estate company. He studied Finance at ISCTE and has an MBA from IE -Instituto de Empresa. Joao Specialized in acquisitions and asset management throughout the Iberian Peninsula, where he has more than 12 years’ experience. Over the last year, João has focused on increasing Merlin’s footprint in the Portuguese real estate market (acquisitions) while improving present occupational levels of the portfolio asset management
Miguel França Santana
Board MemberFidelidade
Portugal
He graduated in Civil Engineering from IST, Lisbon in 1988 and started his career at Proman, Centro de Estudos e Projectos, SA, in the Structural Design Department, with special emphasis on participation in the stability projects at Quinta de Carvalhais of Metro Rotunda II, cold storage centers in the Azores. Among many other residential and industrial projects design. Recently, he has been a member of Hagen Imobiliária SA Board for approximately 2 years. Currently and for the last 6 years he is Board Member of Fidelidade Property Europe, SA., a company 100 % held by Fidelidade Companhia de Seguros, managing all Real Estate Investments of the Insurance Group.
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