ACAI

Who is ACAI?

ACAI is a business association founded in 2013. It aims to promote, regulate, and develop real estate consultancy activity, real estate valuations and management, real estate negotiations and oversight of real estate business, in addition to defending, promoting, and representing the sector’s business interests.

ACAI aims to ensure a fully open and transparent commercial real estate market, increasing its level of professionalism and adopting best international practice, with the objective of increasing the Portuguese market’s appeal and accessibility to all international players − investors, developers, financial institutions, or occupants.

This includes, inter alia, the promotion of other initiatives such as the LPI - Lisbon Prime Index, which compiles and publishes key data on the office market and is used as a source for the production of the widest range of market surveys.

This common base shared by its associates enables ACAI to pursue its mission of endeavouring to mentor actions with various public entity representatives such as municipalities, government, and the Assembly of the Republic, seeking to intervene, in conjunction with other associations representing the real estate market, in the development of such a relevant sector, which was responsible for annual investment of around €3 billion over the last 4 years.

ACAI associates: B. Prime, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, Savills and Worx account for around 95% of real estate business involving commercial property, based on their provision of valuation, consultancy and/or real estate negotiating services.

These companies have, together, been responsible for valuing more than 118 million sqm of real estate assets, 660,000 sqm in sales of commercial space, 900,000 sqm of office space and 700,000 sqm of logistics and industrial areas in Portugal, over the last 5 years.

ACAI brings together companies as behind the scene contributors to the resilience of the commercial real estate sector in Portugal that serves as a basis for the establishment of companies, logistics operators and retailers in our country; fundamental for the maintenance of a competitive productive environment that guarantees high levels of employment.

Jorge Bota
President

Acai