Institutional rental housing and student accommodation are expanding rapidly across CEE as urbanisation, housing shortages and changing lifestyle patterns reshape demand. At the same time, investors are increasingly exploring conversions, hybrid living concepts and heritage revitalisations to create resilient assets in prime locations. In this interview, Peter Noack, Founding Partner and CEO of Zeitgeist Asset Management, and Tomasz Dąbrowski, Managing Director of Zeitgeist Asset Management Poland, discuss the outlook for PRS and PBSA, the growing role of flexible living models and where they see the most promising value-add opportunities in the current market environment. 

7R, the property developer of logistics and industrial facilities with operations in Poland and Czechia, is entering the German market and signed an SMA partnership to invest €200 million in the development of industrial, warehouse and logistics projects across the country.

B+N Group, a facility management service provider in CEE, has rebranded as Liwo Group to support its international expansion across Europe. The company operates in nine European countries with nearly 30,000 employees.

Due diligence platform Drooms has released its Real Estate Trends Report 2026, showing that European transaction times remained stable at 363 days in 2025, compared to previous years of continuous increases.

Wing has successfully closed its €100 million bond programme launched last year with substantial oversubscription. The final tranche, with a nominal value of €34.8 million, attracted purchase orders totalling €57.64 million at a fixed annual interest rate of 6%.

Investika Real Estate Fund is entering the German real estate market through the acquisition of an 89.9% stake in the Höfe am Brühl shopping centre in Leipzig.

MLP Group has completed a €350 million green bond issuance with a 5-year maturity and fixed coupon of 4.75%, in an offering attracted strong demand and was oversubscribed.

Hungarian real estate company Wing announced on LinkedIn that Dr. Katalin Walter has joined the company as Deputy CEO, effective 5 January 2026.

GTC reported rental revenues of €152 million in the first nine months of 2025, up 9% from €139 million in the same period of 2024. The increase followed the acquisition of a residential portfolio in Germany, which contributed €18 million, partially offset by a €4 million decrease after the sale of the GTC X and Matrix C properties.

CA Immo reported strong operational performance for the first nine months of 2025, with net rental income rising 4% to €155 million despite ongoing sales of non-strategic properties. At the same time, the company achieved recurring earnings (FFO I) of €93.3 million, up 8% year-on-year.