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Warsaw’s office market sees strong occupier activity amid falling vacancy rates

At the end of June 2022, Warsaw’s total office stock amounted to about 6.27 million sqm. Occupier activity accelerated while the vacancy rate continued its downward trend – these...

Office News

Employers embrace hybrid working model

The number of employers opting for hybrid working is rising, reveals Cushman & Wakefield’s survey “What’s the Future of the Office?” Three in five employers (59 percent) will ultimately...

Investment Market

Poland’s investment market stays on course despite rocky road

In these challenging times, investors are closely following the turmoil in Europe, the economy and its long‑lasting consequences. In spite of the record-high inflation as well as continuously rising...

Retail News

MAPIC 2022 returns to unveiling the new face of retail

MAPIC, the landmark event of the retail real estate industry, will showcase the new face of retail emerging from the Covid crisis. A rich programme of conference sessions and...

Green Building

Social impact investing can apply to all real estate and become best practice over time

All real estate investment and development have the potential to deliver social impact, according to a new report by Urban Land Institute (ULI) in partnership with global law firm...

Green Building

Community and urban driven expertise to shape the future of real estate

Affordable housing is one of the biggest challenges, that the market is facing right now, fueled by growing interest rates and inflation. Our cities need urban regeneration to provide...

Retail News

Annual CBRE Shopping Centre Index puts Czech retail market under the microscope

CBRE has published the results of its extensive Shopping Centre Index analysis, which annually assesses the performance of regional shopping centres over the past year. The main criteria are...

Green Building

EPP introduces ESG strategy and releases its first report

EPP, the largest asset manager of retail real estate located in Poland, and the entity managing and co-owner of six office projects, implemented a sustainable development strategy in 2021....

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Nearshoring, e-commerce and new investment create warehouse demand

The timely delivery of suitable industrial and warehouse space is the biggest challenge the logistics market will face in the quarters ahead. Poland’s vacancy rate is at a record...

Office News

Poland’s office stock tops 12.5 million sqm

Cushman & Wakefield has published a summary of the first quarter of 2022 on the largest office markets in Poland. New supply rose by 60 percent year-on-year, while the...

Featured Article

Growth Seen Across Core Real Estate Sectors For First Time Since 2019

Cushman & Wakefield’s latest DNA of Real Estate research, covering trends in prime rents and yields across Europe, highlights further strengthening in leasing and investment markets in the first...

Investment Market

Strong first quarter for Poland’s investment market

Poland’s investment market is facing new challenges due to the war in Ukraine. The end of the first quarter of the year was partly influenced by the new geopolitical...

Retail News

Welcome back retail

Between the pandemic, the war, rising prices and increasingly frequent warnings of recession — these are the conditions in which the retail sector operated in the first quarter of...

Featured Article

CEE real estate market resilient to socio-economic changes

The CEE real estate investment market has been on the radar of many market watchers over the past year. But the war in Ukraine, inflation uncertainty, increasing construction costs,...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Modern industrial stock in the Czech Republic almost at 10 million sqm

The Industrial Research Forum has released the Czech Republic’s Industrial Market Figures for Q1 2022. The Industrial Research Forum was established in 2010 with its aim to provide clients...

Investment Market

Investment volumes for CEE up 6 percent y-o-y

The construction, operation, financing, development and acquisition of commercial property in 2022 and beyond will continue to be impacted by the price of fuel, energy and construction materials. This...

Residential

Minimalism at a price

With prices still on the rise, buyers of apartments in Poland are adopting a realistic approach rather than wishful thinking in finding a property. The most noticeable change in...

General

EuropaProperty completes the 17th annual SEE Real Estate Awards in Bucharest

AFI Europe, Forte Partners, One United Properties and Alesonor all took home big prizes on the night, collecting multiple awards across all the main investment, development and project categories....

Featured Article

“We are long-term partners” Interview with Hay Galis, CEO of BIG Shopping Centers

BIG was founded in 1994. The company made a name for itself through the development and operation of shopping centres and retail parks, mainly in Serbia and the neighbouring...

Featured Article

MIPIM returns to Cannes for largest real estate event since 2019

Around 20,000 delegates from over 80 countries gathered at the global real estate conference MIPIM. The event heralded the return to face-to-face networking and in-person events for the international...

Featured Article

Significantly increased short- and long-term uncertainty predominates markets

In the context of a second major economic shock from the war in Ukraine and continuing inflationary concerns, Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Global Outlook 2022 focuses on the global...

Office News

Limited office space offers in Prague

Colliers, a leading provider of diversified professional services in commercial real estate and investment management, published a survey of the Prague office market for Q4 2021. It shows that...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Polish industrial market ends 2021 on a record high

Interest in new space on the industrial market continues to grow. Developers are acting at an increasingly fast pace to respond to emerging needs. As a result, supply and...

Investment Market

Busy year-end for Czech investment market

According to Savills latest report, the last quarter of 2021 was the busiest of the year for commercial real estate investment, with 30 closed transactions and a total volume...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Warehouses set for another record-breaking year

After a very successful 2021, the Polish warehouse market continues to power ahead. In addition to the big five, new well-connected locations are coming up on developers’ radars. The...

Investment Market

Investment volumes in CEE continue to rise

In 2021, commercial property investment volumes in CEE continued to trend upwards, increasing 6.9 percent in 2020. However, they still remained 15 percent below the five-year rolling average. Industrial...

Retail News

IMMOFINANZ, Trei Real Estate, and the CCC Group all win big at the 14th annual CEE Retail Awards

Investor and developer IMMOFINANZ, Retail Group CCC, and developer Trei Real Estate all win multiple accolades at Central Eastern Europe’s top retail awards ceremony. Recognizing the importance of Central...

Retail News

EuropaProperty unveils short-list for the 14th annual CEE Retail Real Estate Awards

Semi-final results are now in for the upcoming EuropaProperty CEE Retail Real Estate Awards showcasing and recognising some of the most accomplished projects, companies, retailers and individuals from the...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Re-shoring, automation and remote working set to change the shape of Europe’s logistics sector

Warehouse occupiers are prioritising the shortening of supply chains to mitigate business risks, a trend that is likely to dominate the demand for warehouse space in Europe for the...

Investment Market

Retail investing across Europe is set to get competitive

Following years of turmoil in retail, 2022 will bring rental growth and increased investment capital to the sector across Europe, according to Savills. The international real estate advisor said...

Retail News

Small shopping centres and retail parks in CEE are growing in importance

Discount retailers predicted to find Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) market very attractive as evidence shows shoppers have favoured the ‘value for money’ approach these retailers provide – reveals...

Featured Article

Race for quality office assets in major cities spurred by ESG and limited supply

Colliers revealed 67 percent of EMEA investors (and 60 percent of global investors) chose quality office assets in major markets as their top strategy picks. European cities like London,...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Full steam ahead for Poland’s industrial and logistics sector

The latest report by BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland shows that in the first three quarters of this year, record demand for warehouses was noted, amounting to almost 4.8...

Office News

Pandemic unleashes an office fit-out revolution

The Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed another revolution in office design in Poland. Companies attract employees by focusing on their comfort and safety. Over the past 18 months, the situation...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

What plots and locations attract the most interest?

The current level of buying activity on the warehouse market shows that lands for warehouse and industrial projects remain in high demand. It is being driven by several overlapping...

Investment Market

EMEA Prime Logistics Yields Close To Converging On Retail

The rampant growth in rents across the logistics sector continues amid a broader recovery in markets as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic begin to wane, according to Cushman...

Investment Market

Momentum builds throughout EMEA property markets in Q3

Investment in European property continued to gain momentum in Q3 with the return of big-ticket deals in major markets across the region, according to the latest market snapshot for...

Featured Article

Urban Land Institute and PwC find significant post-pandemic leap in confidence

Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2022, the 19th annual survey by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PwC of European real estate sector leaders’ expectations for the year...

General

Region’s investment and associated sectors celebrated at annual CEE Investment Awards

EuropaProperty has completed its 11th annual CEE Investment Awards at the Intercontinental Hotel in Warsaw. The awards gala was heralded a great success and were well-received by all the...

Featured Article

Is there a green future ahead?

The non-residential green building market is projected to grow by 9 percent a year from $69.01 billion in 2021 to $110.52 billion in 2025. How does the warehouse industry...

Investment Market

Multifamily firmly establishes itself as Europe’s second biggest real estate sector

According to Savills, European multifamily is now firmly established as Europe’s second-biggest real estate sector. At €24.1 billion, it captured 23 percent of the investment activity in H1 2021...

Green Building

Green office spaces are increasingly valued by employees

The rapidly growing trend of biophilic design, i.e. restoring nature to human surroundings, accompanies us both in commercial and private spaces. The introduction of natural materials, lighting and, of...

Office News

Business services in Poland now occupy 3.5 million sqm of office space

The BSS sector is driving growth in Polish cities and dominates the regional office landscape. Companies from this sector account for more than half of leased space outside of...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Poland’s industrial and logistics market is region’s most attractive

Advisory firm AXI IMMO in cooperation with its international alliance of partners Gerald Eve prepared the second edition of the guide to the European industrial and logistics real estate...

Office News

The talents that employers fight for on the market

The office is evolving. After months of lockdown, employees now want their workspaces to be comfortable, cosy and less formal. And with lots of greenery in the office and...

Investment Market

Investor sentiment across the CEE region remains strong but volumes are down

According to Colliers, the CEE markets continue to feel some impact on transactional activity with flow volumes down ca. 22 percent Y-o-Y. Poland captured more than half of all...

Investment Market

Why Central and Eastern Europe is the property frontier for SA REITs

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has attracted significant interest from South African investors in real estate who have sought to diversify their portfolios and satisfy their appetite for yield-enhancing...

Office News

Developers shifting into a higher gear on Riga’s office market

Take-up on the Riga office market in the first half of 2021 reached pre-pandemic levels. Seeing the market’s potential, investors are moving ahead with office development projects focused on...

Featured Article

MDC² to develop speculative project in the Upper Silesia region

MDC2 – a warehouse and industrial developer operating on the Polish market, acquired a new development site that will accommodate a warehouse and logistics project in the Upper Silesia...

Featured Article

Strong H1 performance for Poland’s primary residential market

The primary market in Poland’s largest markets continued its record-breaking performance with 19,500 units sold in the second quarter of this year, resulting in the market’s best H1 result...

Featured Article

Investment in European property gaining momentum in Q2

Colliers has issued its latest market snapshot for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), which shows a resurgence of interest in property markets in the second quarter amid...

General

The PRS market in the CEE region gathering pace and interest from investors

Residential volumes across the CEE region have been limited and averaged out annually at just over €200 million in the past 5 years. The balance between private, owner-occupied dwellings...

Investment Market

High liquidity for Poland’s investment market

Total investment volume in the first half of 2021 in Poland reached €2 billion, says Avison Young. Despite lower volume in comparison to previous years, the number of transactions...

Featured Article

Small Business Units show stable market growth

Colliers has published a report Small Business Units: Small warehouses with great potential. The publication answers a number of important questions about this segment of the industrial market, such...

Featured Article

Romanian hotel market expected to make a full recovery by 2024

The hotel market was by far one of the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and is expected to reach a full recovery, in this context, by 2024. In...

Featured Article

Hotel investors stick to key gateway cities

According to the latest report prepared by Cushman & Wakefield and CMS titled “Hotel Investment Scene in CEE – Overcoming the Pandemic & Bridging the Financial Gap”, in 2020,...

Featured Article

Entrepreneurs want to invest in city logistics

The results of the IPSOS survey commissioned by Frontier Estates Polska, in cooperation with Europaproperty.com, carried out among entrepreneurs, investors and professionals on the real estate market clearly confirm...

Office News

Polish business service sector on the rise again

The uncertainty caused by the pandemic has directed investor attention to strategies based on nearshoring. The beneficiary of this trend, just as a decade ago, maybe Poland. The disruption...

General

CEE continues to perform in spite of COVID-19

CEE outperformed other EU countries in 2020 in terms of economics, hopefully returning to a strong income convergence to Western Europe in 2021, according to the report presented by...

Featured Article

Poland’s industrial market powers on

Astonishing gross take-up totalling 1.6 million sqm is the best ever quarterly result for Poland’s industrial market. Developers are also maintaining the pace with 2.3 million sqm under construction,...

Investment Market

Landmark transaction in Serbia: GTC sells office portfolio to Indotek Group

Globe Trade Centre has decided to sell its Belgrade office portfolio to the Hungarian investor Indotek Group. The proposed acquisition price is €267.6 million, exceeding the book value of...

Featured Article

BNP Paribas REIM strengthens its pan-European transactions strategy and governance

BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) has revealed the new governance of its Investment and Asset Management activities. Headed up by Sigrid Duhamel, Global Chief Investment Officer (CIO),...

Featured Article

Positive sentiment continues on the Polish industrial and warehouse market

According to “Occupier Insight – Industrial and Warehouse Market Q1 2021”, a report prepared by real estate advisory firm Cresa, gross industrial and warehouse take-up climbed to 1.6 million...

Featured Article

Poland is the third most popular location in the world for foreign investors

Poland came third in terms of the inflow of foreign direct investment. The country announced 30 projects worth $1.2 billion. In the international race, only the United States and...

Featured Article

Czech retail park stock tops 1 million sqm

A total of 23 retail park projects with a total area of almost 55,000 sqm were completed in the Czech Republic last year, with the volume of development exceeding...

Featured Article

Europe needs around 8.6 million sqm of warehouse space to meet parcel delivery demand

According to a recent report from Savills, an additional 8.6 million sqm of warehouse space is required by parcel companies in Europe between 2021 and 2025 to keep up...

Featured Article

Why are companies choosing to shift manufacturing to Poland?

Some companies are choosing to relocate production plants from Asia to Poland to diversify business activity and shorten supply chains. On the other hand, western firms are setting up...

Featured Article

AFI Europe and Forte Partners win big at EuropaProperty’s digitally enhanced 16th Annual SEE Real Estate Awards

Recognizing the importance of South-Eastern Europe’s investment and development markets EuropaProperty was proud to host the 16th annual EuropaProperty SEE Real Estate Awards ONLINE. The live event was simultaneously...

Featured Article

EuropaProperty announces the short-list for the SEE Real Estate Awards

The short-list for the upcoming 16th annual EuropaProperty SEE Real Estate Awards and CEO Networking Forum, Southern Eastern Europe’s premier commercial real estate event, dedicated to investment and development,...

Investment Market

Cushman & Wakefield predicts Sheds, Beds & Meds will be 2021 investment winners

“Sheds, Beds, Meds” and other alternative market sectors will dominate the EMEA investment agenda this year, as investors remain risk-averse, focusing on core markets with better long-term growth prospects...

Investment Market

South African Fortress REIT acquires two logistics parks in Poland

South African Fortress REIT has acquired two logistics parks in Bydgoszcz and Stargard from Griffin Property Finance. This is the first direct acquisition in Poland by Fortress REIT and...

Featured Article

EuropaProperty completes digitally enhanced gala to celebrate the region’s retail sector

Cosmetics retailer Hebe, and developers Equilis, Acteeum Group and TREI Real Estate all win multiple accolades at Central Eastern Europe’s top retail awards ceremony. Recognizing the importance of Central...

Investment Market

Savills identifies the top picks for investment in 2021

Savills predicts that core and core+ real estate investors will continue to be attracted by high specification office buildings in key European CBD locations with low vacancy rates such...

Featured Article

Frontier Estates sees steady growth prospects in Poland’s SBU sector

Frontier Estates, a notable European developer, intends to substantially improve the efficiency of storage, sales, office space and logistics for medium-sized e-commerce, light-production and tech clients in the Lower...

Office News

Warsaw’s office market is changing

In 2020, office take-up hit its lowest level in ten years amid pandemic headwinds despite the largest-ever single lease contract signed to date and one of the highest volumes...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

CTP to build network of logistic parks in Poland, plans to invest €200 million in 2021

CTP, CEE’s largest industrial property developer, enters a strategic partnership with Poland-based MDC² to develop full-service business parks throughout Poland. Construction in the first three locations will start in...

Retail News

The pandemic is a catalyst for retail change

Close to 130,000 sqm was delivered to the market across all retail formats in Q4 2020, bringing last year’s total new supply to more than 340,000 sqm. Despite pandemic-related...

Finance

pbb successfully issued first Green Bond as Senior Preferred Benchmark

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank successfully placed its first Green Bond as Senior Preferred Benchmark with a volume of €500 million on the capital markets. The Bond has a coupon of...

Office News

Lease renewals and tech companies dominate in demand structure

In 2020, demand for office space in regional cities was 16 percent lower compared to 2019, the vacancy rate increased by 3.2 percent and the volume of office space...

Investment Market

Poland’s investment volume for 2020 was third-highest in history says Avison Young

COVID-19 has had a great impact on the economy as well as consumer behaviour, which has naturally influenced the property market. The pandemic unexpectedly accelerated changes noticed for the...

Office News

Warsaw’s office market waiting for stabilisation

Tenant activity in 2020 was 31 percent lower than in 2019, with developers being much more cautious about launching new developments than in previous years. As a result, this...

Retail News

Twenty-five new retail brands entered the Czech market in 2020

Although the retail segment is among those affected the most by the coronavirus crisis, this does not show in the number of brands newly incoming to the Czech market,...

Featured Article

Do high streets have a chance of becoming an alternative to shopping centres?

Because of the pandemic, a significant number of Polish consumers are increasingly turning to smaller stores, which are located outside traditional shopping centres. Is this an opportunity for high...

Office News

Top commercial real estate trends of 2021 to watch out for

With COVID-19 forcing the Real Estate sector to rethink the way they work, market demand for office space has rapidly changed. As a result, the focus of the office...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Warehouses were the top performing sector in 2020

The industrial and logistics sector has proved resilient to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, unlike most other parts of the Polish commercial real estate market, it has had a...

Investment Market

Yareal sells two office buildings in the LIXA complex

Yareal closed the final agreement for the sale of the first phase the LIXA complex, which opened its doors to tenants in November. This first stage of the investment...

Office News

Is Poland’s office market heading towards oversupply?

The changing structure of demand for offices, and the increasing amount of space aimed at subtenants, raises the question of whether the office sector in Poland is facing the...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Poland remains one of the most attractive warehouse markets in Europe

The Gerald Eve International Alliance of real estate advisory firms, which AXI IMMO is a member of, has prepared a guide of the key industrial and logistics markets in...

Investment Market

S IMMO acquires two office buildings from Skanska in Bucharest

Skanska has sold the Campus 6.2 and 6.3 office buildings in Bucharest to S IMMO AG, an Austrian-based real estate company. This is the buyer’s first acquisition with Skanska...

Warehousing, Logistics and Industrial

Poland’s industrial sector displays resilience to pandemic

The industrial market is the fastest-growing commercial real estate sector in Poland, Cushman & Wakefield summarized in its latest report on the country’s industrial market in Q3 2020. Robust...

Investment Market

Savills IM identifies real estate opportunities resulting from the secular shift in capital markets

Central business district (CBD) offices, supermarkets and food-anchored retail parks, as well as logistics assets in key locations across Europe, will present attractive investment opportunities in 2021 as investors...

Investment Market

Demand for logistics real estate in the Baltics is growing fast new deal shows

Newsec in the Baltics advised on the sale of an 18,000 sqm logistics centre owned by BCP Logistics Property III of Norway. The current tenant Vinges Terminalas acquired the...

Investment Market

CEE markets record third highest real estate investment volume on record

According to Savills latest research, total property investment activity in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania for Q1-Q3 2020 was €7.6 billion, the third-highest volume on record,...

Retail News

Industry leaders place mixed use spaces, client experience and phygital at the heart of their strategies at MAPIC Digital live

Leaders in commercial real estate, retail and leisure have uncompromisingly analysed the transformation of their industry during two days of MAPIC Digital live – new for 2020, with the...

Investment Market

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