In its portfolio of assets, the company has 6 MiM hotels managed by the operator Majestic in Andorra, Baqueira, Ibiza, Mallorca, Sitges and Sotogrande, as well as an additional hotel in the Aran Valley.
In addition to soccer, a sport in which he has achieved everything, Lionel Messi begins to look at his future off the court. The Argentine National Team and Inter Miami player has interests in different ventures, such as hotel chains. Now, he has gone one step further since his listed Spanish real estate investment company (SOCIMI), called Rostower Building and with headquarters in Barcelona, started trading on the stock market.
The football legend is president of the aforementioned firm, which went public on the European Portfolio Stock Exchange (a European alternative market supervised by the Bank of Spain) with a reference price of €57.4 per sharewhich represents a total value of €223.2 million. Likewise, his wife Antonela Roccuzzo She is the first vice president of the company.
The assets are mostly located in the Catalunya region, where Messi lived for more than two decades until 2021, when he left for Paris Saint-Germain.
The business side of Lionel Messi
With his retirement from football getting closer and closer, Messi begins to give him a higher priority to your role in the business world. In detail, it has six MiM hotels managed by the operator Majestic in Andorra, Baqueira, Ibiza, Mallorca, Sitges and Sotogrande, as well as an additional establishment in the Aran Valley.
At the same time, it has a six-story, 4,000 square meter building in Barcelonawith offices and premises; a ship of 2,500 square meters in Sitgescurrently rented by a supermarket chain, and a restaurant in the town of Castelldefels. Several properties in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Castelldefels, Cala Tarida, Paris and London are also added to the list of real estate.
The “socimi”, as they call it in Spain, is listed under the ticker ERTW on the Portfolio Stock Exchange and its activity focuses on acquisition and promotion of real estate for rental.
In addition to Messi himself and Antonela, the Rostower Building board includes Alfonso Nebotwho heads Messi’s family wealth management office and who will occupy the second vice presidency, and the economist Ramon AdellNaturgy advisor. The company went from being an investment company to a SOCIMI on December 11.
These types of firms have a favorable tax regime, since they pay 1% corporate tax, with the condition of distributing at least 80% of their profits in dividends.
Source: Ambito
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