Net lease real estate investment trust W.P. Carey has added seven DIY retail stores in Poland to its portfolio. The NYSE-listed company has bought the newly built assets totalling 70,000 sqm from private real estate firm Supernova Group for an undisclosed sum. The stores are triple-net leased to OBI for a term of 15 years with Eurozone CPI-based rent increases.

Property group Yellow Tree has purchased an office building near Romană Square in central Bucharest from Mecanoexportimport. The Mecano Export-Import building has a leasable area of 3,000 sqm and was finalized in 2004. The deal, with an undisclosed value, was first reported by profit.ro. 

Commercial real estate market in Poland has come a long way since the spring of 2020. Never before have so many changes been made in such a short time. Adaptation to new conditions turned out to be the most difficult for hotels and retail. For the warehouse market, in turn, the reshuffling of sales and deliveries became a springboard for a series of records. The offices returned in a new form. Nowadays, the new trends that will shape the market in the upcoming years, lead the way for the real estate sector. Experts from Walter Herz consulting company comment on what is changing.

Sales of lands, homes and apartments in Romania rose by a yearly rate of 16% to 698,756 units in 2021, with a peak of 74,429 transactions recorded in December, according to the National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Publicity (ANCPI). 

In early December 2021, S Immo announced a partial takeover to the shareholders of Immofinanz, only three days after a similar offer was made by CPI Property Group. Today, the Executive Board, Supervisory Board and Works Council of Immofinanz have issued statements in which they indicate that the offer price of €23.00 per share is viewed as not sufficiently attractive. The Executive Board and Supervisory Board, therefore, recommend that shareholders not accept the partial offer by S Immo for approximately 10% of the outstanding Immofinanz shares.

Garbe Institutional Capital has launched a pan-European residential real estate fund with a total target investment volume (GAV) of around €800 million. The Garbe European Residential Fund (Garbe EUResi) invests in real estate developments and selectively also in properties undergoing energy rehabilitation. The investment strategy follows a "boots on the ground" approach: the fund only invests in locations where Garbe can act as a local investor through a local presence. The fund’s launch is a milestone in Garbe Institutional Capital’s move to expand into a European residential real estate platform. Garbe EUResi has already received equity commitments of €82.5 million.

Ukrainian real estate investment fund Focus Estate Fund has acquired the Turawa Park shopping center in Opole, Poland from international investment management group abrdn for an undisclosed sum. Turawa Park with a total area of 35,138 sqm is the fourth asset of the Fund’s portfolio in Poland.

Romanian developer Euro Vial has purchased at the end of last year a plot of land of 2,500 square meters located in Mamaia North, in a deal worth €1.5 million. 

ČS NEMOVITOSTNÍ FOND, managed by REICO investiční společnost České spořitelny, a.s., is expanding its portfolio with the addition of the second phase of the Panattoni Park Tychy located between the Polish cities of Tychy and Bieruň, Poland. The total number of properties in the fund’s portfolio thus increased to 20, with the share of industrial properties in the fund’s portfolio reaching approximately 14%.

Colliers reveals that 67% of EMEA investors (and 60% of global investors) chose quality office assets in major markets as their top strategy picks. European cities like London, Paris, Berlin and Munich have retained their allure and will be in high demand next year.