The number of flexible offices in Romania climbed to 120 at the end of 2022, with 21 new coworking centres opened in the post-pandemic period, according to a report by real estate consultancy Crosspoint Real Estate. 

Six office buildings sold, another five buildings with occupancy permits, nearly 45,000 sqm of offices leased, the development of the food & beverage segment and the strengthening of the diverse offer of Libero Katowice and Galeria Młociny - these are the developer's key commercial sector successes in 2022.

E-commerce clothing giant Shein will start operations in the area of almost 55,000 sqm in Panattoni Park Wrocław South Hub as early as this quarter. The developer has already leased half of the planned 250,000 sqm in the Lower Silesian complex.

While the leasing of industrial spaces crossing for the first time the 1 million sqm milestone in 2022, the deliveries of new projects will total around 550,000 sqm during this year, which should take the total stock to a fresh high of 7 million sqm, according to real estate consultancy CBRE. 

The new facility in Ecser, not far from the Liszt Ferenc International Airport, will offer 47,000 sqm of industrial space for local and foreign companies from 2024.

Cushman & Wakefield has taken over the management of a portfolio of three shopping centres and one retail park in the Czech Republic. Hungarian investment group Adventum Group bought this portfolio from Tesco last year in a unique transaction involving 18 retail projects across the CEE region. Cushman & Wakefield assisted its long-standing client Tesco in the sale and is now managing and exclusively leasing 50,000 sqm of retail in the Czech Republic space for Adventum.

Accolade has completed a new logistic park in Elbląg, the first Class A warehouse in this area. The 20,000 sqm industrial park is fully leased to its two tenants: Flex and DPD.

In 2021, the warehouse sector strongly dominated Poland's commercial real estate market in terms of volume. The value of transactions - approximately €3.2 billion - accounted for over half of the total value of investment transactions. In 2022, the sector's result - €2 billion – accounted for "only" a 34% share in the total transaction volume in Poland, says Bartłomiej Krzyżak, Senior Director, Investment at Avison Young Poland.

Property group Globalworth says it has delivered office fit-out services for 50 tenants in 12 buildings based in Bucharest that totalled 250,000 sqm. 

ELI Parks, the network developed by Element Group and D Craig Real Estate, will kick off a new logistics and industrial project in Oradea. The companies will invest €22 million in the new park that will have a leasable area of 30,000 sqm.