MIPIM — the Marche International des Professionnels de l'Immobilier — is held in Cannes each March and is the world's most important real estate investment forum. The event draws approximately twenty-six thousand attendees from the global property development, investment, and architecture industries to the Palais des Festivals for four days of meetings, presentations, and networking. A significant proportion of the most senior attendees — sovereign wealth fund representatives, major developer principals, and global investment managers — use Monaco as their base and rely on a private chauffeur for the daily Monaco-Cannes transfer.
MIPIM's Monaco Base — Why Principals Choose the Principality
The March timing of MIPIM places the event at the beginning of the Riviera spring season — the weather is consistently mild, the Cannes hotel stock is at peak occupation and elevated rates, and Monaco's relative availability and service standards become materially advantageous. For principals who combine MIPIM attendance with related meetings in Monaco — the SBM portfolio, the Monaco Economic Board, or the Property Promotion unit of the Principality — the Monaco base is both strategically and logistically efficient.
The forty-five-minute transfer between Monaco and the Palais des Festivals is a productive interval for principals who use the journey time for calls, document review, or briefing preparation. We equip the vehicle with a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot as standard for MIPIM transfers, and we maintain a vehicle log of the previous day's call schedule to avoid re-briefing the driver each morning.
The Palais des Festivals — Access and Delegate Management
MIPIM operates across the full Palais des Festivals and extends to the Riviera and the Grand auditorium, as well as the beach areas and the Croisette hotels for private meetings. For principals with a programme that spans multiple venues, we provide a vehicle and driver dedicated to the MIPIM schedule for the full four days, positioning at each venue according to the confirmed meeting schedule.
The MIPIM VIP delegate entrance is on the port side of the Palais. For principals with a Platinum badge or sovereign wealth fund accreditation, we coordinate the approach to this entrance and hold the vehicle at the port-side turning area for rapid re-departure.
Yachts and Floating Meeting Venues
MIPIM is one of the few property events in the world where a significant proportion of the highest-level meetings take place on yachts. The Port de Cannes and the Quai Saint-Pierre host a significant fleet during MIPIM week, with major developers and investment funds hosting meetings aboard their vessels rather than in hotel meeting rooms. For principals whose MIPIM programme includes yacht-based meetings, we coordinate the quayside transfer between the Palais and the specific berth.
For principals whose own vessel is moored at Port Hercule rather than Port de Cannes, we manage the Monaco port pickup and the transfer to the Cannes quayside for the meeting, and the return to Monaco port for the yacht re-embarkation. This two-port service is unique to MIPIM and Cannes Lions week.
Evening Dinners and Investment Receptions
MIPIM evenings are among the most concentrated networking environments in the global property calendar. The official MIPIM dinner, the Urban Land Institute reception, the JLL and CBRE client events, and the country-pavilion dinners at the Palais run simultaneously across the four days of the event. For principals with multiple evening commitments, we pre-schedule the vehicle for all evening movements and manage the departure time from each event to ensure the Monaco return is within the principal's preferred window.
For principals hosting their own MIPIM dinner in Monaco rather than Cannes — using a private dining room at the Hotel de Paris or a private villa — we provide the full guest transport service from Cannes to Monaco and return. The programme for a Monaco dinner during MIPIM typically requires six to eight individual Monaco pickups from the Palais at varying times between seven-thirty and nine in the evening.
Monaco Economic Board and Cross-Meeting Programme
The Monaco Economic Board holds its own property and investment meetings during MIPIM week, often coordinating with the Principality's promotion campaigns at the Palais. For principals attending both the official MIPIM programme in Cannes and a specific Monaco Economic Board appointment in the Principality, we manage the transfer between the two in the programme's natural gaps — typically the lunch window from twelve-thirty to two-thirty, which allows a forty-five-minute transfer each way with a fifteen-minute meeting window in Monaco.
For principals whose MIPIM visit is the first engagement in a longer Riviera programme — extending to Monaco, Cap Ferrat, and Antibes for a week following the event — we transition the MIPIM transfer service seamlessly into the broader Riviera programme, with the same driver and the same point of contact throughout.
