At this year’s Expo Real, Katarzyna Kotkowska, Director, Investment, Poland and the Czech Republic at SEGRO, shared her perspective with Property Forum on current market sentiment, recent transactions, and evolving investment strategies in Central Europe. In this conversation, she discusses SEGRO’s selective approach to acquisitions, stable demand across its CEE portfolio, and the company’s long-term commitment to sustainability.

The Office for the Protection of Competition in the Czech Republic has approved the merger of PPF Real Estate, a competitor, with Diplomat Prague RE and the company Hotels by HR Diplomat. 

Amundi has sold the mixed-use space Forum Karlín and the Prague Ibis hotel to Patria, a part of ČSOB, reports seznamzpravy.cz.

After almost two years of reconstruction, PSN is reopening the modernist Grand Palace in Pardubice to the public. The company has created a modern department store that combines history with today's urban life.

The Czech Republic is not playing second fiddle to the Polish or Hungarian markets, as suggested by the demand and the increase in the ratio of new leases. The end of Q3 2025 has seen more than a million square meters of warehouse and manufacturing space under construction in the Czech Republic, according to the report on Q3 2025 Market Figures by the Industrial Research Forum.

Caspyan Fund has launched the sale of residential units in the Konstanta Karlín project in Prague. The fund has been built on more than a decade of experience of its management in the real estate sector.

By the end of the decade, more than 300 kilometres of new expressways are to be built in the Czech Republic, altering not only the country's transportation map but also the strategy of companies searching for locations for their logistics and production facilities, according to Colliers' analysis.

After almost two years of construction, EPG Group has completed the modernisation and expansion of the Varyáda shopping centre in the Karlovy Vary region. The reconstruction has been managed with the shopping centre in full operation.

Finding a vacant space in the highest-quality office buildings in central Prague has proven to be a mission impossible. According to Savills’ analysis, vacancy in AAA properties has consistently remained at zero.

The Idea Office Building in the Smíchov quarter of Prague, part of the NEMO real estate fund, has undergone a significant transformation, welcoming new commercial and diplomatic tenants.