Investment transactions in Romania exceeded €540 million in the first nine months of 2021, with around half being closed only in the third quarter, according to property consultancy Colliers Romania. 

Patron Capital, the pan-European institutional investor focused on property-backed investments, and Trei Real Estate, an international developer and asset holder for residential and retail real estate, have formed a new 75:25 joint venture to develop and hold retail parks in Poland under the Vendo Park brand.

Schönfeld & Co Nemovitosti’s Premium Real Estate Fund has acquired the REDA logistics complex in Brno-Slatina from RSBC Group for CZK 300 million. At the beginning of next year, Schönfeld & Co is planning another acquisition for CZK 700 million, local daily e15.cz reports.

Revetas announced the successful disposal of the remaining assets of its Revetas Capital Fund II’s Project Papa office portfolio in Prague, bringing the total transaction value to over €100 million. One of the four assets initially comprised in the portfolio, BBC Vila, has previously been sold to Passerinvest Group. The three remaining buildings with a total GLA of c. 33,000 sqm are located in close proximity of each other in the Karlin neighbourhood of Prague’s 8th district and were acquired by local real estate group Českomoravská Nemovitostní (ČMN). The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

A consortium of Penta Real Estate, Kaprain Group and Sekyra Group has acquired a land plot of 20,122 sqm from the University of Chemistry and Technology (VŠCHT) in the western part of Vítězné náměstí in Prague 6 for over €39 million (CZK 1 billion), Penta announced in a press release.

Property developer Novum Business Invest has purchased a new land plot of 15,100 near Carol Park in Bucharest for a new residential project with over 500 units. 

The 2028 pledge, launched ahead of COP26, is a potential game changer for the industry as the accelerated action plan aims at net zero without offsets several years ahead of IPCC’s target date. Nordic real estate investor, NREP, has committed to being carbon neutral by 2028 without offsets, encompassing both operational and embodied carbon. 

Contera has become the new owner of Vlčie hrdlo Business Park in Bratislava, located on a former brownfield area and offering 33,420 square meters of warehouse and office space, the company announced on LinkedIn. Contera purchased the asset, situated close to R7 highway, from investment group Natland.

This year’s value of transactions on the investment land market in Poland is already record-breaking.

MLP Group is set to carry out another bond issue worth €20 million. The debt securities will be issued on November 17th 2021 and repurchased on May 17th 2024.