A dramatic power outage in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 starkly revealed our dependence on electricity infrastructure. Alex Araujo and Michael Rae explore the resilience of power grids and how the shift towards renewable electricity generation could create investment opportunities for infrastructure businesses.
Spain faces a housing production deficit of over 1 million homes, a gap that has been growing since 2014. By 2030, this shortfall is expected to exceed 1.7 million homes, representing more than 15 years of annual production. This structural imbalance presents a compelling opportunity for institutional and private investors looking to enter the Spanish residential market.
Taking inspiration from the late Charlie Munger’s problem solving frameworks, we will apply some of his mental models to a relatively simple question: Where should long-term investors look to allocate capital in European real estate today? The short answer would be to look to provide capital to the sectors in most need (those with the greatest demand/supply imbalance), at the most attractive price point, which would subsequently reward investors with the most stable and growing cashflows over a long period of time. Through this lens, the PBSA market in Southern Europe looks to be a leading contender.