Roxana Frățilă, Partner, Head of Real Estate & Construction at CMS, spoke to Property Forum about the key deals closed in the retail market in 2023 and accelerating investment in renewable energy.

The number of factory outlet centres in Europe rose slightly to 198 units in the last 12 months, while their sales area expanded by 7.6% to just under 3.3 million sqm, according to an ecostra report. 

iO Partners has provided development management services for a 126 MW solar farm in Văcărești locality, Dâmbovița County. 

A Korean automotive company has taken over a new hall in the Kladno-South location with an area of 21,000 sqm, reports Newstream.cz. Construction has lasted a year and the new building has been handed over to the tenant this July. 

Romanian developer One United Properties has started the construction of One Technology District, which will host the largest R&D centre of Infineon Technologies in Southeast Europe.

Atenor has completed BakerStreet Phase I, a new office project in Budapest’s South Buda area that will host the HQ of E.ON Hungária Group. 

STC Partners will start a new residential project in Bucharest after completing the acquisition of a land plot for €7.2 million.

Agnieszka Gutowska, Head of Brand Marketing & Communication at Nhood Services Poland has talked to Property Forum about the implementation of the ESG principles in the new retail projects, the costs of modernization of the older ones and the approach of the tenants to the ‘new green deal’.

The first half of 2024 on the Warsaw office market marked an evolutionary change on both the demand and supply side. Development activity is slowly returning to pre-pandemic levels, with 280,000 sqm under construction at the end of June. On the demand side, we are observing a continuation of the renegotiation trend. The total take-up was 320,000 sqm, a comparable result to H1 2023, according to Axi Immo's latest report. 

CBRE Romania has purchased the franchise for a job fair that will be launched for the first time in Bucharest under the “night of companies” concept.