Companies in Romania leased over 500,000 sqm of industrial and logistics spaces in H1 2025, marking a significant 25% year-on-year increase compared to the same period last year, according to a report by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
This performance makes H1 2025 the third best-performing first semester in the last 12 years, with leasing activity 45% above the average for the analyzed period.
The modern stock of industrial & logistics spaces in Romania reached 7.75 million sqm at the end of Q2, with 184,100 sqm of new projects completed in H1, a 77% growth year-on-year.
The robust demand suggests that the total take-up volume could once again reach 1 million sqm by year-end.
Bucharest continues to be the primary destination for tenants, accounting for 70% (359,000 sqm) of the total spaces leased in H1 2025, followed by Timișoara with 13%.
Net take-up, reaching 340,000 sqm, represented 66% of the overall leasing volume during H1 2025.
Rodica Târcavu, Partner Industrial Agency at Cushman & Wakefield Echinox, stated: "The industrial & logistics market in Romania benefited from a robust transactional activity in H1 2025, a positive evolution which gives us confidence and optimism that this segment will continue to develop in a solid and sustainable way, as it has been the case in the last few years.”
Logistics and distribution operators dominated the transacted volume, representing 30% (160,000 sqm), while retail, e-commerce, and FMCG companies leased 133,000 sqm (26%).
The two largest contracts finalised in Q2 were exclusively renegotiations: one for 16,000 sqm signed by Kyocera in CTPark Timișoara Ghiroda, followed by Sarantis with 11,000 sqm in WDP Park Dragomirești.
The prime headline rent in Bucharest remained stable, with monthly asking rents in top projects across Romania ranging between €4.30 - €4.70 per sqm in Q2.
