The property industry's March market in Cannes, where cities arrive as delegations and the Vieux Port fills with yachts hired as meeting rooms.
An event page tells you when it happens (with how sure we are of the date), why it matters, how the week around it feels, when to arrive and leave, where people stay, how access works, and which events come before and after it on the circuit.
MIPIM is the international property market, held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes since 1990 and run by RX France. Its floor is a trade fair in the literal sense — roughly 20,000 square metres of stands, many taken not by companies but by cities and regions marketing their development pipelines — wrapped in a conference programme on investment, planning, logistics, hotels, data centres and housing.
The organiser's published figures for 2026 are more than 20,000 delegates from 90 countries and over 5,000 investors. What those numbers describe is a market where the buyers are capital allocators and the sellers are, unusually, municipalities: London, Manchester, Birmingham, the Paris region and dozens more send delegations, often led by mayors. Much of the business happens off the floor, on yachts chartered in the Vieux Port and in beach pavilions along the Croisette.
01Why it matters
MIPIM is the one week when European real estate capital and the public authorities that want it are in the same square kilometre, and deals with civic consequence — regeneration schemes, transport-linked development, logistics and data-centre portfolios — are moved forward here.
02The week around it
March is out of season on the Riviera, which is exactly why MIPIM works: Cannes has the hotel stock and the Palais standing empty, and the fair fills both.
03When to arrive
Arrive Monday evening or Tuesday morning.
04Where to stay
The Croisette hotels are the centre of the week and are taken by corporate blocks well ahead; the Carlton, Majestic and Martinez terraces function as meeting rooms all day. The streets behind Rue d'Antibes give the same walk without the frontage, and the Suquet is quieter.
05Access and hospitality
MIPIM is a paid trade fair open to industry professionals, with passes sold in several tiers from full four-day access to shorter and premium options; the organiser directs buyers to its registration portal rather than publishing a headline price, and none is quoted here.
06Where the social activity happens
The Vieux Port quays and the Croisette between the Palais and the Majestic are the whole social geography of the fair, along with the seafront terraces and the restaurants of Rue d'Antibes and the Suquet.
07Getting there
08Practicalities
09History
Reed MIDEM launched MIPIM in March 1990, borrowing the model from its music and television markets in the same building; the first edition drew 2,950 attendees and 830 companies from more than 22 countries. The MIPIM Awards followed in 1991.
10Who is there
Real estate investors, developers and asset managers, city and regional development agencies and the mayors who lead them, architects and planners, hotel and logistics operators, construction firms, property lawyers and agents, and the property trade press.
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Dates on record
| Edition | Dates | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | ConfirmedPublished by the organiser on the MIPIM front page as 16-19 March 2027 at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes. | |
| 2026 | CompletedHeld at the Palais des Festivals across 9 to 13 March 2026, the week opening on the Monday with a day given over to housing and introducing a data-centre summit. French trade listings carry the 9-13 March span; the organiser's own page had already rolled forward to 2027 when checked. |
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Sources
- MIPIM, RX France official accessed 6 September 2026
- MIPIM, Wikipedia encyclopedia accessed 6 September 2026
- MIPIM 2026, 9-13 March 2026, Palais des Festivals de Cannes, Immo Matin publication accessed 6 September 2026