General Admission Price : €450
Partner Admission Price : €270
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Over the past 18 months, The Class Foundation and its partners have been working to develop a National Action Framework, convening strategic discussions and establishing a unified student housing voice to inform and influence policy. Building on this momentum, the Spanish Forum will be held in the capital city of Madrid, bringing together public and private stakeholders to discuss the state of student living and align local and EU policy with institutional and investor priorities.
Join us for this exclusive forum, featuring curated site tours from the likes of Student Experience, investment and higher education data insights, interactive workshops, in collaboration with the newly established Spanish PBSA association AREDE.
About the Event
Spain’s higher education sector is expanding and becoming increasingly international. In 2022/23, the country welcomed approximately 1.5 million students, including a rapidly growing international cohort. Yet this growth is outpacing housing supply. Spain faces a significant and widening shortage of high-quality, accessible student accommodation, with projections indicating that over 280,000 additional student beds may be required by 2030. This imbalance underscores the urgent need for coordinated action to protect student wellbeing, support academic success, and safeguard Spain’s competitiveness as a global study destination.
The programme will feature four data-led insight sessions covering investment, legal and fiscal frameworks, higher education trends, and social impact, alongside an industry workshop and panel discussion where stakeholders will work together to identify shared challenges and co-create solutions. These sessions will be complemented by site tours of best-in-class student residences and curated networking opportunities.
Following the workshop, attendees will be presented with key findings from the 2023-25 European Student Living Monitor, with a dedicated focus on Spain. Drawing on insights from more than 2,700 student responses, the research highlights Spain as one of the top three countries in Europe for student happiness, while also identifying affordability pressures and uneven housing quality as critical risks; particularly in major cities such as Madrid and Barcelona.
Attendees will also gain a 360° perspective on the Spanish market, including:
- An overview of higher education and internationalisation trends
- An analysis of Spain's real estate and student housing landscape, highlighting supply gaps, rental pressures, and development constraints.
- Insight into the investment and policy conditions shaped by current legal and fiscal framework
These four pillars will also inform the forum’s programme which includes thought-provoking discussions, interactive sessions, data insights and the sharing of best practices, on topics such as investment, legal and fiscal frameworks, higher education trends, social impact and challenges and solutions for the sector.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with sector leaders and help shape a shared agenda for the future of student living in Spain.
Agenda
Networking & Registration
Venue: micampus Wynwood Foronda 7
Address: Residencia universitaria micampus Wynwood Foronda 7
C. Foronda, 7
Fuencarral-El Pardo
28034 Madrid
Welcome
Setting the scene for the day – why we’re bringing the market together now, the challenges facing student housing and the wider Spanish housing market, and what we want to achieve from the conversation.
Social Masterplan | Designing the next generation of student housing : From Data to Student
Moderator: Christopher Holloway - Chief Revenue Officer | ASK4
Speaker:
Viola Dressino - Architect | Lombardini22
Federica Sanchez - Architect & Researcher in Applied Neuroscience | Lombardini22
Starting at the city level and looking beyond student housing as a standalone asset class – considering how housing, education, infrastructure and placemaking come together to create successful university cities.
Vision for Madrid Nuevo Norte
Moderator: Christopher Holloway - Chief Revenue Officer | ASK4
Speaker: José Ignacio Morales - CEO | CreaMNN
Bringing that into a real Madrid context, looking at the vision for Madrid Nuevo Norte and what one of Europe’s most significant regeneration projects can teach us about long-term planning, housing and creating places for future generations.
Data Dialogues: Market Insights, Investment, Student & ESG Trends
Moderator: Christopher Holloway - Chief Revenue Officer | ASK4
Speakers:
Pablo Lopez - South Europe Director | ICEF
Eva Cueto - Associate Living Capital Markets | Knight Frank
Chanel Turner Ross - | Utopi
A series of short, data-led perspectives on the fundamentals shaping the Spanish market – supply and demand, student trends, investment conditions and ESG – followed by a discussion bringing those perspectives together.
Networking Lunch & Tour of micampus
After lunch, we shift the conversation towards policy, delivery and what Spain can learn from elsewhere.
Europe’s Student Housing Landscape: Policy, Progress & Lessons for Spain
Moderator: Christopher Hütwohl - Founder | nook42
We then widen the lens to look at how student housing is evolving across different European markets – how the sector is positioned politically, what governments are doing to unlock or regulate supply, how markets are responding to affordability and investment challenges, and importantly, what appears to be working and what isn’t.
The idea isn’t simply to compare markets, but to ask what Spain can practically learn from the approaches being taken across Europe, and what those lessons could mean for the next phase of the Spanish market.
The Spanish Government’s Vision & Priorities
Speaker: Inés Sandoval Tormo - Director General of Housing and Land | Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning Spain
Hearing directly about the Government’s housing ambitions and priorities, and where students, young people and purpose-built student housing sit within the wider national housing agenda.
Site Tour & Drinks Reception
Finishing by moving from the discussion to the physical product, with a site tour and an opportunity to continue conversations more informally.
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