Location is the strategic choice that shapes an asset's future for years to come.

Próxima assesses locations, sources commercial properties and manages transactions for operators and investors expanding their networks across hospitality, food & beverage and retail — combining data, sector expertise and a professional community on the ground.

Track record
10 years in the market · since 2016
Team
Multinational, multilingual
Focus
Hospitality · F&B · Retail
Who we are

Site-selection specialists for hospitality and retail.

We help network-driven companies choose locations and acquire properties deliberately — on data and sector expertise, not on luck.

We work at the intersection of three disciplines: property origination and sourcing; geomarketing — assessing a location through data; and a networked delivery model — a community of professionals who execute on the ground.

Our approach is built for network-expansion programmes: we assess each site not in isolation, but in the logic of the whole network, weighing dozens of location, property and market factors at once. Scattered decisions become a managed portfolio.

A cross-disciplinary team
Where we stand

We are not a brokerage. No particular property is ours to sell, so nothing is pushed. Our role is advisory — which means our interest is the same as the client's: the right site, on the right terms, or none at all.

Thesis

Real estate is the world's largest asset class. Yet choosing a location remains one of the few decisions still made on intuition. We turn it into a process that is rigorous, transparent and repeatable.

The discipline of site selection
Sectors

Three sectors, one methodology.

Hospitality property is one of our core sectors, alongside retail. Drawing on the management team's operator background, we assess a property not as «square metres with footfall», but as a future operating business.

Hospitality

Hotels & serviced apartments

Sourcing and assessing properties for hotels, aparthotels and repositioning projects. We analyse location, operating model and asset potential from an operator's perspective — not only a broker's.

Food & beverage

F&B and restaurant chains

Sourcing units that fit the chain's formats: visibility, pedestrian and vehicle flow, surroundings, technical suitability for kitchen and logistics. Every site judged in the logic of rolling out the concept.

Retail

Retail chains

Convenience and high-street retail: catchment areas, demand density, the competitive landscape and trade-area overlap with the client's existing network.

Services

End to end — from sourcing the property to closing the deal.

01 · Origination

Property origination & sourcing

Targeted search for sites that meet the format's parameters, including off-market opportunities and direct access to owners through our local network.

02 · Due diligence

Location & asset due diligence

Validating the site with geomarketing data and a transparent scorecard: catchment, footfall, socio-demographics, surroundings, competition and the building's technical condition.

03 · Transaction

Transaction management

Negotiations with owners, lease or purchase, document review, and coordination with local lawyers and technical advisers through to completion.

04 · Advisory

Strategy & portfolio advisory

Roll-out roadmap, prioritisation of markets and districts, review and optimisation of the existing store portfolio, and operational due diligence.

How we work

We start with the network, not with a property.

A property is the last step, not the first. Before we look at a single unit, we establish what a good site means for this particular business — and only then go to the market.

01

Brief and criteria

We define the format's requirements together with the client: unit economics, footprint and technical needs, target customer, target markets and districts, and the constraints that rule a site out. The result is a written screening standard, not a verbal wish list.

02

Market and catchment screening

We narrow whole markets down to priority districts and micro-locations using catchment modelling, footfall and socio-demographic data, points of attraction and the competitive map — including overlap with the client's existing network.

03

Sourcing and shortlist

Targeted origination in the selected micro-locations, including off-market approaches to owners. Each candidate arrives with a scorecard showing why it scores as it does, so options can be compared like for like.

04

Transaction

Negotiation of commercial terms, lease or purchase, document review and coordination of local lawyers, surveyors and technical advisers through to completion.

05

Opening and portfolio review

Support through fit-out and opening where required, and a periodic review of the portfolio: which sites perform, which underperform, and what that teaches the next round of selection.

The Próxima model

For every project, the right team of professionals.

Próxima is Spanish for «next» — the principle of continuous progress written into the name. It is also the name of the nearest star to us: the orbit and its nodes in the logo are a network of professionals around a shared centre.

Próxima is built as a curated community of independent professionals — agents, architects, valuers, finance and mortgage specialists, analysts, engineers and trainers — connected by a shared digital environment and central support.

The professionals remain independent entrepreneurs; the company provides infrastructure, technology and a flow of work. The client gets what no single office can offer: work across several regions at once, speed, and a single point of accountability — without a heavy headcount or fixed overheads.

We have been developing this model since 2020. A new generation of tools and AI now makes it faster and more effective to run than was possible then.

Principles

What we hold to, and why clients notice it.

Evidence over intuition.
Every recommendation can be traced to data and defended before an investment committee.
Suitability over speed of transaction.
A site that closes quickly but trades poorly costs far more than the months saved.
Network logic over the single site.
Each unit is judged by what it adds to the network, not by how attractive it looks on its own.
A few projects done properly over volume.
We take on a limited number of mandates so each has a senior lead genuinely accountable for it.
Data & technology

A transparent method, not a black box.

We make no claim to a closed, proprietary AI. We are an integrator: we bring the best geoanalytics tools together into a single, verifiable method.

Our location assessment does not stop at a site's present condition — it looks ahead, to how the unit will trade in the logic of its format and market. It rests on spatial analysis, drive-time isochrones rather than a crude «radius», footfall data, socio-demographics, points of attraction and a competition map.

For every site you can see why it scored as it did — and that can be checked and defended before an investment committee. Technology takes on the gathering and analysis of data, so people can concentrate on strategy, negotiation and relationships.

A synergy of disciplines
Where the market is heading

Networks are growing through compact formats and personal service.

A clear trend across Europe: leading hospitality and retail operators increasingly grow not through single large sites, but through a network of compact units with closer, more personal service.

That strategy shifts value from a few large bets to many precise, site-by-site decisions that have to be made at scale and at speed. This is exactly where Próxima's distributed, data-driven model delivers most — we are built for multi-market roll-out programmes, where reach, speed and assessment discipline all matter at once.

Heritage

A working brand with a real history.

The company has been in the market for 10 years — since 2016. It began as a residential estate agency in Mallorca under the Century 21 franchise. In 2020 came the rebrand to Próxima and a change of model: a move from residential property to B2B — sourcing and selecting commercial premises for hospitality, restaurant and retail chains.

Próxima
Próxima
Próxima
Why Próxima

Our advantages in site selection.

+

An operator's eye

We assess a site as a future operating business, not the way a broker would.

+

Data and a transparent score

Decisions rest on verifiable metrics — not on intuition or «this street has always worked».

+

A community on the ground

Work across several regions at once, at a speed no single office can match.

+

Growth without internal competition

We factor in the strategic and geographic logic of network growth, so new units complement the existing ones rather than draw trade away from them.

+

A multinational team

Multilingual and internationally experienced — a bridge between owner and local markets.

+

Accountability and aligned interests

We take on a limited number of projects, work in the client's interest, and assign a senior lead to each one.

Management

The team is led by professionals with 30 years' experience in operational management and real estate: running hotels for international operators (Accor, Marriott), brokerage within an international real-estate network, and independent consulting in hospitality and commercial property. Working languages — English, Spanish, Russian.

Email
mail@proxima-market.com
Phone · WhatsApp
+34 674 444 470
Website
proxima-market.com
Próxima Real Estate Marketplace — a trademark of an active company (registered 2016). This document sets out the firm's competencies, methodology and operating model.