Some notes from the conference, where properazzi are blogging all the major talks:

• Senior Financial Times correspondent Leslie Crawford gave a very bearish talk on real estate in Spain, claiming that Spain is just two years behind the crisis that is happening in the US today. This did not make her very popular with the audience, I understand she left the building in a bullet-proof vest (just kidding).
• Spain’s Minister of Housing, Carme Chacon, turned up for the world’s fastest ribbon-cutting, followed by a sprint across the exhibition hall to visit some stands, and get mobbed by journalists and photographers. Maybe they were all wanting to ask her what she thought of Leslie Crawford’s contrarian speech.

more updates later!