Rental prices in Europe continued to rise during Q1 2025, while developments in purchase prices varied, according to new research by Catella.

YIT has started selling apartments in one of its first residential projects outside Prague, Portti Kladno. The project is located on a brownfield site of former cold storage facilities with an area of almost 12,000 sqm. The second stage is to offer 102 apartments for personal ownership. 

STC Partners has secured €20 million in funding from BT for the development of the Bucharest-based Quartier Ferdinand residential complex.

The Nové Centrum Ružinova project by MiddleCap has been developed as a mixed-use complex on the plot with an unfinished concrete skeleton on Tomášikova Street in Bratislava. The infamous development, nicknamed Hiroshima by Bratislava residents, is now moving ahead in permitting, reports sme.sk.

The Trio Radotín residential project in Prague 16, which is developed by the company Doma je Doma, has sold out more than 60% of 205 apartments and 14 commercial units. 

YIT has completed the base building construction of the tenth phase of Tampere, which is being built in the Suomi Hloubětín complex in Prague 9. The apartment building is offering 68 units and 5 commercial spaces. 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is extending an €80 million portfolio risk-sharing guarantee to BNP Paribas Bank Polska to help increase access to green finance in Poland.

The Emonika complex in Ljubljana has officially entered its next phase of development as OTP Group held a groundbreaking ceremony at the project site. 

Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has experienced profound demographic and economic shifts. One of the most significant developments has been the increasing strategic importance of the country’s western regions—Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Zakarpattia—as safe havens for internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as new focal points for business relocation and investment. The Ukrainian Real Estate Club has summarised the situation for Property Forum.

Penta Real Estate has completed and handed over a residential building with 54 apartments for long-term rental housing in the area of Waltrovka Pod Vidoulí in Prague. It has been built on a turnkey basis for the XPlace platform, which is operated by the Archbishopric of Prague.