Drago is an investment and asset management platform which operates in Spain and Portugal since 2001 and in Miami since 2017. From the beginning, it has completed transactions amounting to more than €3.7 billion working with important foreign and national institutional investors. Over these years, it has launched and managed 17 investment vehicles which include more than 1,990 properties. Among the assets acquired are retail and office buildings, residential properties, commercial premises, tourist apartments and hotels.
The Drago team analyses direct investments, corporate operations with underlying property and asset portfolios, seeking to channel the investment through joint ventures and the launch of new vehicles.
In 2017 Drago was selected as the first property management and investment firm in Spain according to the Euromoney magazine, this recognition has been ratified for a second consecutive year. Drago consolidates its position in 2018, leading Euromoney’s ranking for two consecutive years.
For the third time, in 2020 Drago has been recognized as “Best Real Estate Investment Management Firm in Spain in 2020”, according to the prestigious ranking published annually by Euromoney and for five consecutive years our asset management company ranked among the top 3.
Drago has launched and managed 17 investment vehicles which include more than 1,990 properties in Spain, Portugal and USA
Drago designs and implements added value strategies in order to identify investment opportunities, analyse inefficiencies and implement the necessary measures which generate greater returns than average in the property market of Iberian Peninsula and USA.
Drago has a team of professionals with wide experience in property investment in the Iberian Peninsula and USA, which has been able to carry out and satisfactorily manage investments in one of the most difficult periods which has beset this industry in recent decades.
Drago offers a broad range of services related to the management of property assets among which is included integral management.
Drago currently manages several investment vehicles, participated in by important institutional investors. Drago mainly manages two types of vehicles:
The investment strategies of Drago are based on a profound knowledge of the property market which enables Drago to identify attractive opportunities. Drago analyses the market in detail and efficiently structures property investments in the whole of the Iberian Peninsula and USA.
Each asset is analysed as a long-term investment in order to have the opportunity to exit the operation at the optimum time. Thanks to the experience of Drago, the company has a network of contacts which contribute knowledge and opportunities in the market, as well as the capacity to access financial sources.
Drago is only involved in investments which comply with parameters and strict criteria in terms of property quality of the assets, their liquidity, the cash flow provisions and forecasting, and the potential to generate value.
Visit to the property, analysis of location and placement, rental analysis, checking the credit quality of the tenants, preliminary evaluation of the asset
Analysis of the local market (demographic tendencies, competence, socioeconomic parameters), identification and comparison with other property for rent and sale
Definition of the investment thesis and the business plan which enables the generation of value for the investors, approach to the objective returns expected for the investment and for the period the investment is held in the portfolio
Legal due diligence, RICS evaluation, technical and environmental auditing
Support in the closure, negotiation of the legal documentation (purchase and sale of the property, rental contracts, agreements with the shareholders, management agreements, among others), obtaining financing, implementation of the investment structure
At Drago, we believe in building a better future as an essential value and we are committed to children’s education and fundamental rights.
Drago’s support is aimed at improving education of those who have less opportunities, as well as to offer emotional and psychological support.
For this reason, Drago collaborates with the following initiatives:
Fundación Balia por la Infancia whose mission is to foster the social inclusion of children at risk through educational programmes. www.fundacionbalia.org
Special Education College of the Hospital San Rafael, a center belonging to the Order of Brothers of San Juan de Dios that welcomes students with motor and intellectual disabilities and other associated disorders. www.sanrafaelcolegio.com
NGO Educate Zimbabwe’s Children, which is aimed at addressing the needs of the country’s educational system and promotes different actions for children to have access to quality education. www.zimbabweschildren.org
Fundación Aladina, that provides comprehensive support to children and adolescents with cancer so they never lose their smile. www.aladina.org
Drago invites its employees, investors, clients and collaborators to support these wonderful initiatives.
Serrano, 67. Planta 2ª. 28006 Madrid
+34 91 781 57 00
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