MIPIM

thumb|Cannes Palais des Festivals et des Congrès MIPIM (from the French: '''''Le Marché international des professionnels de l'immobilier''') is a four-day property and real estate trade show held annually in March at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. Drawing thousands of international attendees to the French Riviera, it has become a major event in the property industry, but has also been criticised for its extravagance and sleaze. A sister event, MIPIM Asia, is held annually in Hong Kong.

==History== Organised by Reed MIDEM, a subsidiary of Reed Exhibitions (today RELX), the event was first held in March 1990, and then attracted 2,950 attendees and 830 companies from more than 22 countries. The MIPIM Awards were instituted in 1991 and the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards started in 2002. By 2009, MIPIM had become an established annual event where property developers, cities and local authorities could meet with potential real estate investors; in 2018, while noting the event always attracted "tycoons keen to party on lavish yachts", the Financial Times'' also noted the attendance of Homes England, the Department for Homes, Communities and Local Government and the British Property Federation. In 2019, a third of top-tier UK councils - 51 in total, including 11 London boroughs and eight Midlands county councils - attended MIPIM.