The CEE office market has been coping with post-COVID consequences and forcing both landlords and tenants to explore opportunities to improve space utilisation. Expert speakers at CEE Property Forum 2024 in Vienna have revealed interesting strategies for the best office assets in the panel dedicated to the office market.

IWG has opened in Debrecen the first phase of its flexible offices under the Regus brand. Regus Debrecen spans 600 sqm and will double in size once the second phase is completed. 

IWG has announced the opening of a new flexible workspace project in Budapest under the Regus brand in partnership with Proform Ingatlanbefektetési Zrt. 

IWG has announced the opening of a HQ centre in southern Budapest, which marks the HQ brand’s debut in Hungary. 

International Workplace Group (IWG), the provider of hybrid work solutions, has announced the opening of two flexible workspaces in Budapest and Miskolc under the Regus brand.

Despite significant headwinds across the global economy, the European flexible office market has remained largely resilient throughout 2023, says Workthere.pl. In 2024, the flexible office specialist expects operators to continue to seek best-in-class spaces with a greater focus on amenities and sustainability offerings.

Flexible workspaces are going like hotcakes in Poland and companies are enquiring about them in all large cities, but not only there. Serviced offices are also in demand in smaller towns, says Nemwark Polska.

At the beginning of the pandemic, it seemed that many coworking centres or serviced offices could not survive the measures implemented under the Covid-19 pandemic. Shared workspaces, whose philosophy is based on meeting, personal communication, and collaboration, were hit hard by governmental restrictions. But a December analysis by JLL shows promising results; with the retreat of anti-pandemic measures, most coworking and serviced office operators have already felt a new wave of interest, and 2022 has confirmed this trend.

Fuzja is the first Łódź location of CitySpace, an operator of flexible office space. The concept, owned by Echo Investment, will occupy an office building on the site of the former Karol Scheibler plant, where the Fuzja mixed-use project is currently under construction. The location encompassing the entire office building on an exclusive basis is new to CitySpace. MIXD studio is responsible for the interior design. The opening is scheduled for May 2023.

CEE-based flex office operator New Work continues to expand in its key markets. In Budapest, the company opened the second phase of its business centre in the Science Park office building in South Buda, adding 2,000 sqm of high-quality flex office space to the local market. In Warsaw, New Work opened a brand location, offering 1,135 sqm, in the Tulipan House office building in the city’s Służewiec district.