The conference was very well attended, and the mood among attendees and presenters was generally upbeat. Anecdotally, the sentiment seemed to be that for, retail real estate in this region, the sun is still shining—for the moment.

Among the latest e-tail trends is the expansion of online retail operations into physical store locations. Amazon is paying attention and its confidence in the staying power of brick and mortar shops is evidenced by Amazon Go.

In order to overcome the objections raised by the European Commission, the Catalan Government is pushing for a modification of this tax figure in the Law on Measures Fiscal, administrative, financial and public sector.

Manubens Abogados participated in MAPIC, one of the largest European fairs in the international Real Estate market.  Mapic was attended by almost three thousand five hundred companies and over nine thousand participants participated in this edition.

Recently, a Supreme Court Judgment of June 21, 2016 has been published, which can have a great impact and impact in the field of the management of commercial facilities in Catalonia.

The controversy originates with the approval of a modification of the consolidated urban network (TUC, hereinafter referred to as Mataró) (approved in March 2011), which left the MATARÓ PARK Shopping Center outside the TUC, making it impossible to extend it Of article 9.4 of Decree-law 1/2009 on the Management of Commercial Equipment -Decree-law 1/2009, hereinafter-).