Panattoni is to open up a new warehouse market in Central Poland. The developer has purchased a site in Pabianice, where it plans to deliver a park with a total area of ​​95,000 sqm. The first building is to be completed this June and has already been leased by one of the leading electronic store chains in Poland. Panattoni Park Pabianice will be situated close to the S14 expressway, just 35 km from the junction of the A1 and A2 motorways, which means efficient distribution to markets across Poland. The three-building complex is to undergo BREEAM certification at the ‘Excellent’ level.

Colliers published a survey of the Prague office market for Q4 2021. It shows that the vacancy rate stopped rising last year due to weak construction and rents rose to a new high. The market with modern office space will not increase significantly even in 2022.

The Railways of the Slovak Republic (ŽSR) intends to sell its railway hospital with a clinic and hostel in Trnavský Mýto in Bratislava. The sale will take place in the form of an electronic auction, which starts at a starting price of € 19.9 million excluding VAT, online daily trend.sk quotes the announcement of the tender published on the ŽSR website.

As technology has taken an increasingly important strategic role in the evolution and development of real estate, the challenges facing the people leading that innovation charge are becoming apparent.

IREP and West Properties have joined forces in a partnership to provide full real estate services for Serbia and the wider Balkans region. In a strategic move that will be announced at MIPIM in Cannes, France, the two companies will combine key services, knowledge and experience to offer a comprehensive and dynamic range of services currently not available in this region.

Build-to-rent (PRS), industrial and offices are the asset classes that will continue to attract investments in CEE this year, although a prolonged geopolitical crisis could hamper development plans, commented speakers during Property Forum’s latest online event which aimed to provide a property investment outlook for 2022.

Individual investors subscribed to all L-series bonds offered by Echo Investment. For the second time this year, the developer will issue securities with a total nominal value of PLN 50 million.

Driven by large-scale mergers and acquisitions, European multifamily investment volumes in the 12 countries analysed reached approximately €92.3 billion in 2021, a 79% increase y-o-y and a 120% increase on the past five-year average, according to Savills. In Poland, multifamily investment activity hit an all-time high of close to €725 million in 2021.

Realized prices of flats in Slovakia rose by more than 10 % in Q4 2021. Prices of sales recorded in the cadastre of the real estate continued to grow dynamically at the end of 2021, dwellings were sold more expensive by more than 10 % year-on-year, and prices rose by 3.6 % compared to the summer months, the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic announced.

As Romania has eliminated all pandemic restrictions earlier this week, companies plan to increase the number of employees returning to the office in the near future.