Soccer star lists real estate portfolio | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Football star Lionel Messi carried out a listing of his real estate properties, valuing the portfolio at $232 million.

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The company, called Edificio Rostower Socimi, has been listed as a real estate investment trust and owns seven hotels, commercial real estate for shops and offices, as well as houses, according to its prospectus. Rostower posted losses in both 2022 and 2023.

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The trust’s share price was set on Dec. 30 at $59.50 on a small, digital-only Spanish bourse called the Portfolio Stock Exchange.

Although he was born in Argentina and is currently based in Miami as a player for Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami, Messi spent most of his life in Spain, where he moved as a 12-year-old to join FC Barcelona’s youth teams. Following a two-year stint in Paris, he went to Miami in 2023 only weeks after leading Argentina to win the 2022 World Cup.

His arrival in Miami has sparked a boom in interest and business for his Inter Miami team and more broadly for MLS, the main U.S. football league.

Messi has traditionally had a lower-key approach to business investments than other sports stars, such as his perennial Portuguese rival Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Messi’s move to list Rostower happened relatively quickly. The firm only became a real estate investment trust in mid-December, days after an attempt by the Spanish government to increase the tax on real estate trusts was blocked in parliament. The trusts currently have a special tax rate that’s lower than the rate for other companies in Spain.

Investors tend to list real estate investment trusts in order to meet legal requirements to benefit from the special tax regime in Spain, rather than to raise cash. According to the data on the Portfolio Stock Exchange website, Messi’s company doesn’t have any free float requirements.

The choice of the Portfolio exchange for his listing is unusual, as it’s smaller and less well-known than the BME Growth index popular among real estate investment trusts in Spain.

Messi serves as chairman of Rostower’s board, with his wife also holding a seat.