Investment into the commercial real estate (CRE) market totalled nearly €56 billion in the second quarter of 2015, up 15% on Q2 2014, according to the latest figures from global real estate advisor CBRE. Although the rate of year-on-year growth in investment activity has slowed slightly compared with Q1, it is still the highest Q2 total since 2007. Commercial real estate investment in Central and Eastern Europe slowed in H1 2015 due to a lack of available prime stock and the impact of rent contraction in Warsaw’s office market, the region’s most liquid market.

According to the RICS Commercial Property Monitor for Q1 2015 most countries in Central and Eastern Europe can expect relatively strong economic growth and the expectations for commercial property markets are also broadly positive. The Occupier Sentiment Index has finally registered a positive value in all four examined countries. The Investment Sentiment Index is firmly in positive territory for both the Czech Republic and Hungary, but is also not in negative territory in Bulgaria and Romania.

Prologis has announced on Tuesday the signing of a 118,000 square meter build-to-suit (BTS) agreement together with BMW Group in the Landshut region of Bavaria.

Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ have reached a definitive agreement on Tuesday to merge and are set to become one of the largest global real estate services companies.

Prologis has announced its first quarter 2015 business activity in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on Thursday. The first three month of the year saw the acquisition of a logistics park in Hungary and the start of two speculative developments in Poland.

Ghelamco Poland has signed a record-breaking agreement for the lease of office space at Warsaw Spire. The new tenant will take nearly 22,000 square metres in the A-class building whose occupancy rate has now soared to over 50%.

Prologis, the global leader in industrial real estate, today announced it has broken ground on a speculative facility totalling 18,500 square metres at Prologis Park Wroclaw V. Construction is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2015.

Prologis, Inc., the global leader in industrial real estate, has on Thursday announced the opening of a 30,000 square metre speculative distribution facility at Prologis Park Prague-Airport.