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Abandoned industrial areas and railway stations in Prague are being transformed into modern districts for tens of thousands of residents. These are the five largest projects under construction in the metropolis, reports seznamzpravy.cz.

Digitalisation of the construction permitting process has proven to be a significant obstacle to the development of cities and municipalities, according to the recent CEEC Research survey. In practice, it is still not working as expected. On a scale from 0 (completely non-functional) to 10 (fully functional), city representatives have given the system an average score of 3.40.

Although 13% fewer units have been sold in Q2 2025 than in the previous quarter, the Prague residential market with new apartments has continued to grow strongly, according to data from BuiltMind.

Over the past year, Central Group has acquired approximately 240,000 sqm of new land for CZK 6 billion (€242 million) in seven Prague locations.

In January 5 years have passed since the European Parliament approved the Green Deal. The construction industry is accountable for 39% of global carbon dioxide emissions. The pressure to reduce emissions from clients, banks and legislation is only increasing, comments Jakub Škaloud, Project Manager and Head of the Building Differently team at VCES, one of the general contractors of Czech buildings.

Prague representatives and representatives of Czech Railways have signed a purchase agreement for the Žižkov Freight Station building and the surrounding land, reports E15.cz. 

Prague is intending to buy the historic building of the freight station Žižkov and the adjacent land from Czech Railways, reports E15.cz. If the purchase is completed the capital is planning changes to the zoning plan in the entire extensive brownfield next year allowing other developers to build.

Residential builder Central Group has just completed the largest transaction on the housing market this year. It is buying more than five hectares of land near the Invalidovna metro station in Karlín in Prague 8, including the existing Čechia Hotel. 

The new design of Nový Žižkov Centre has revealed the most significant change of replacing the original design of 3 towers reaching a height of 100 metres with only one centrally located undulating tower. The investor of this project in Prague 3 is the Czech residential builder Central Group.

The average price of older flats in the Czech Republic fell by nine percent year-on-year to CZK 82,351 per sqm (€3,510 per sqm), which brought an overall increase in sales by two-thirds compared to the previous year. However, Prague has seen the fewest sales of older apartments in four years. According to ČTK and HN.cz, this is the result of a study by the real estate group European Housing Services (EHS), which uses data from its founding members, Bezrealitky and Maxima Reality.