Peakside Capital has completed the acquisition of Argo Alpha, a Prague office building comprising 12,600 sqm of GLA. The transaction price has not been disclosed.
Peakside acquired Argo Alpha on behalf of a separate account client from MOF Immo and Credo Real Estate, Austrian development and investment companies. This acquisition is the third investment by Peakside in the Czech Republic, following the purchase of a portfolio of 72 retail assets in January 2015 and the acquisition of the Cube, an office property located in Prague, in June 2016.
Peakside was advised by law firm BNT, financial & tax company ASB and technical advisors Sentient. The vendor received legal advice from Dentons and CBRE provided real estate advice.
Michał Nawrot, Associate in Peakside’s Warsaw office, says: “Argo is our third Czech investment completed within the last two years, which clearly demonstrates our confidence in this market. The transaction was closed in less than three months from signing the letter of intent, which again demonstrates that Peakside acts decisively on transactions if the target project meets our investment criteria.”
Apollo-Rida, the owner and manager of the Equal Business Park office complex in Kraków, has extended some of its lease agreements, covering a total of more than 5,000 sqm of office space. Companies that have decided to continue their cooperation include Assa Abloy, Kimberly Clark, Endava and the law firm Kochański & Partners.
A C&A chain store has joined the tenants of the Blue City shopping centre in Warsaw. This will be the brand's seventh shop in the capital. The store, with an area of over 2,200 sq m, will open on level 0.
Media Markt has announced the opening of a new shop in Olsztyn. The outlet, located in the Aviator Retail Park and occupying an area of 577 sqm, operates in the modern Xpress format.
New appointments
Krisztina Enzsöl has joined Knight Frank Hungary as Associate Director in the office division. She has over 24 years’ worth of experience in real estate, being specialised in office leasing. In addition, Enzsöl has extensive knowledge in both tenant and landlord representation.
Beginning of September this year, the Management Board at Avison Young's Polish branch underwent a change, with Monika Bronicka, Director, Head of Valuation and Advisory, Business Development, becoming a Member of the Board.
In September 2024, Ewa Andrzejewska took on the role of Chief Operating Officer of the Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate (PINK). In her new role, she will be responsible for co-creating and implementing PINK's strategy and further developing the organisation.
Recently, there has been significantly more activity in the Warsaw office market compared to regional markets, both in terms of demand and new investments. As of last year, the demand for office space in Warsaw has increased, while overall demand has decreased in the region. There are also more vacancies in the regional markets, says Walter Herz.
Investors returned to the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) markets. Their activity exceeded the volume of €3.3 billion in H1 2024 translating into 41% growth year on year and reaching almost the full-year volume of 2023. JLL experts, in cooperation with iO Partners, present an analysis of the trends observed in the investment market in Poland against the background of countries in the CEE region.
Banks and building societies have provided mortgage loans for more than CZK 32 billion (€1.2billion) within August, reports the Czech Banking Association in its newest Hypomonitor. Compared to July, mortgage activity has increased by a third.
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