Romanian entrepreneurs Dragoș and Adrian Pavăl are expanding their investment in Switzerland with the acquisition of a 6,582 sqm plot adjacent to the Waldhaus Flims Wellness Resort for CHF 4 million, according to Romanian Hospitality Newsletter.

Commercial real estate investment in Slovakia reached €244 million across 8 transactions in the first half of 2026, according to analysis by CBRE Slovakia. Foreign investors accounted for 78% of total investment activity, equivalent to €190 million, with Czech investors representing 73% of that foreign share. Domestic investors contributed the remaining 22%, or €54 million.

STRABAG Property and Facility Services (STRABAG PFS), a subsidiary of construction group STRABAG, signed an agreement on 11 August 2026 to acquire 100 per cent of the shares in Brenneka Install SRL and Samivo Instal SRL, two companies within the Brenneka Group headquartered in Bacău, Romania. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.

Investment activity in Central and Eastern Europe's commercial real estate market continued to grow in the first half of 2026, with total transaction volumes across Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia exceeding €5.5 billion, a year-on-year rise of 6%, according to a new report by Knight Frank. Czech investors accounted for approximately €2 billion of that total, representing 36% of all commercial real estate investment in the region.

The Czech commercial real estate investment market recorded approximately €1.02 billion across more than 30 transactions in Q2 2026, more than double the volume seen in Q1, according to analysis by Colliers. Residential assets accounted for the largest share at approximately 38% of total investment, with office properties close behind at 35%. Mixed-use, industrial, alternative, hotel and retail assets made up the remainder of a diversified quarter. Czech capital dominated overall, though Western European and global institutional investors also participated.

Investment transaction volume across the CEE-5 region (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania) reached €5.5 billion in the first half of 2026, up 6% year-on-year, according to a Knight Frank report. Poland remained the largest market, accounting for 55% of total volume, with transaction volume rising 77% year-on-year. Knight Frank forecasts that annual investment volume in Poland could reach €6 billion in 2026, the highest level since the pandemic. The Czech Republic accounted for 26% of CEE-5 volume, Hungary for 11%, and Romania and Slovakia for 4% each.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) has provided an investment loan facility of €78 million to BGO, acting as arranger and sole lender under the facility. The loan refinances a portfolio of five logistics assets across central and western Poland.

Investment volumes in commercial real estate in the Czech Republic reached almost €1.14 billion in the first half of 2026, with the residential sector emerging as the second strongest investment segment. The period was shaped largely by Wood & Company's acquisition of 760 rental apartments in the Písnice district of Prague, which remains the largest investment transaction on the Czech market so far this year. According to Savills, the limited supply of large residential portfolios highlights growing institutional investor interest in the sector.

Czech real estate company PSN has completed the acquisition of an office building at Botanická 56 in the Brno-Veveří district. The seller was Safichem Group, the industrial group of which tenant Aquatis forms a part. Existing tenancy arrangements remain unchanged, with Aquatis continuing to occupy the building.

The commercial real estate investment market across six Central and Eastern European countries recorded transaction volumes of €5.8 billion in the first half of 2026, according to analysis published by Colliers. The figure represents a notable improvement on recent years and signals a recovery in investor confidence across the region, though capital continues to flow selectively into assets with stable income generation, strong ESG performance and a competitive market position.