Cost of financing and capital availability are some of the core challenges this year for real estate companies in Europe, shows a Deloitte survey.

Romania saw 11 new retail projects completed last year, with a combined leasable area of 215,000 sqm, sending the market to a 7-year high in terms of deliveries, according to a Cushman & Wakefield Echinox report.

While the total investment volume in Romania’s commercial property sector fell by around 60% to around €500 million in 2023 year-on-year, the average transaction amounted to €21.5 million of the 23 investment deals tracked by Crosspoint Real Estate.

Romanian entrepreneur Petre Niculae, the owner of several construction and real estate companies, has recently started the construction of a new residential complex in Bucharest that will feature 750 apartments.

Hagag Development Europe has withdrawn from negotiations with SNC-Lavalin for the purchase of an office building in Bucharest, in a deal estimated to have reached over €8 million.

According to experts from Colliers, the Czech real estate market is facing several challenges this year.

The investments transaction market in Romania totaled around €500 million in 2023, down from a record of more than €1.2 billion in the previous year, in line with lower deal volumes that have been recorded across region and the major international markets, according to a Colliers Romania report.

Developer YIT has launched the construction and sale of the new Sija Kamýk project in Prague 12. The development of the project is revitalizing the former brownfield used as a building site and later as office buildings in the Praha-Kamýk district.

Romanian developer Transilvania Construcții has completed a new logistics park spanning close to 25,000 sqm in Bacău. With this newly delivered project, the company’s industrial and logistics portfolio has reached 250,000 sqm.

Capital Park Group has started to power its investment projects exclusively with energy from renewable sources. As of January 2024, Norblin Factory, Royal Wilanów and two Vis à Vis street malls use 100% green energy. The total area of all projects powered by RES is more than 110,000 sqm. The energy supplier is Enefit. The Westbridge Advisory team advised Capital Park in the procurement process.