Hungary's residential property market is showing signs of normalisation, according to the latest Ingatlan Radar report from zenga.hu. While listed prices continued to rise in July 2026, the pace of annual price growth slowed both nationally and in Budapest, and one county recorded an outright year-on-year decline.

The Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate (PINK) has published figures on the Polish warehouse and industrial market for Q2 2026. The data is sourced from advisory firms active in the commercial real estate sector, including Axi Immo, BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, CBRE, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, Knight Frank, Newmark Polska and Savills, and covers modern warehouse stock, new completions, space under construction, take-up and vacancy levels.

652 new apartments were sold in Bratislava in the second quarter of 2026, a 12% decline compared with the 742 units sold in the first quarter, according to a residential market report by CBRE Slovakia. The available supply of new-build apartments rose above 4,000 units for the first time since 2017, reaching 4,231 homes across 105 projects, an increase of approximately 300 units quarter-on-quarter and 25% year-on-year. The pace of new project launches outstripped the pace of sales.

The Regional Research Forum, whose members include CBRE, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, iO Partners, Knight Frank and Savills, has published its H1 2026 data for the Brno and Ostrava office markets. In Brno, the only completion during the period was Svatopetrská D (1,750 sqm) in Q1, while construction began on BRIXX Brno (1,400 sqm) in Q2. Total modern office stock in Brno reached 717,450 sqm by the end of June, with Class A properties accounting for 73% of that figure. Nine schemes totalling 87,570 sqm were under construction, the largest being Dornych (27,600 sqm), Ponávka A4 (12,310 sqm) and Nová Zbrojovka D4 (10,460 sqm).

Romania's modern retail market added approximately 80,000 sqm of new retail space in the first half of 2026, down from around 122,000 sqm in the same period last year, bringing total stock to more than 5.2 million sqm, according to a Colliers report. The decline was largely due to the absence of large-scale projects, with the Mall Moldova extension having accounted for nearly 50% of first-half deliveries in 2025. Colliers has revised its full-year 2026 delivery estimate by approximately 35%, from around 230,000 sqm to 150,000 sqm. The largest completions in the first half of 2026 were the Arena Mall extension in Bacău (approximately 17,000 sqm) and the first phase of Urbano Shopping & Living in Cluj-Napoca (around 15,000 sqm), alongside Aurora Retail Park in Bacău, the Electroputere Parc extension in Craiova and Galeriile Iris in Târgoviște, each contributing approximately 10,000 to 12,000 sqm.

tbi bank is introducing a grace period of up to two months for eligible property developers affected by the disruption to the land registry system following a recent cyberattack. The outage has prevented property transactions from being completed and related funds from being collected, placing temporary pressure on developers' cash flows.

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Commercial real estate investment across six Central and Eastern European markets reached €5.8 billion in the first half of 2026, according to Colliers, with the Czech Republic accounting for roughly a quarter of that total at over €1.4 billion. Although this represents a nominal decline from the record €2.2 billion recorded in the same period last year, analysts at Colliers view the result as a stabilisation following an period of exceptional activity.

Hungary's residential property market saw 9,292 transactions in July 2026, according to the monthly estimate published by Duna House. The figure is 5.8% below the June level and 2.1% lower than the same month in 2025.

A survey by Genesis Property finds that job security in Romania is increasingly tied to adaptability rather than employment stability alone. More than 60% of employees say their current role provides stability without sufficient development opportunities, or leaves them feeling stuck, while only 14% feel fully secure and confident about their career prospects. Half describe themselves as relatively secure but watching their company and market closely. The survey was conducted online in July among 1,026 internet users across Romania.