The end of the first semester has brought to light great achievements from regional cities in all real estate segments on the Romanian market. Bucharest has also performed well and, according to the real estate consultancy company Colliers International Romania, the prospects for the remainder of the year remain strong.

Prologis has begun development of a Small Business Unit (SBU) facility totalling 13,000 square meters at its new Prologis Park Poznań III. The building is 14 percent pre-leased to Euro-net, the owner of RTV EURO AGD, a nationwide retail chain. Completion is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2018.

CTP plans to invest €75 million in the acquisition of properties in Belgrade and Novi Sad as well as further developments all totalling 120,000 sqm of lettable area.

Panattoni Europe has embarked on the construction of City Logistics Warsaw I, planned to total 26,000 sqm. Completion of construction works and delivery to the tenants is planned for the coming October.

Prologis Europe ended the second quarter with record occupancy at 97.2 percent, notably through improved demand in its Southern markets. During the quarter, the company signed 343,000 square metres of new leases and 631,000 square metres of lease renewals to its operating and development portfolio.

Total demand on the Budapest industrial market amounted to 59,740 sqm in Q2 2018, marking a 72% decrease over the figure noted in the same period last year. The Budapest Research Forum published its quarterly industrial market analysis.

Colliers sold the former Remy Automotive industrial site in Mezőkövesd, Hungary to Kiss és Társa Ltd, a local entrepreneur in the iron/metal business. The site has approx. 16 000 sqm buildings on a 13.6 ha plot and will be used for iron/metal production and warehousing purposes. Colliers represented the vendor, BorgWarner, the widely known, major automotive supplier during the transaction.

ELI, a company incorporated in Netherland, and co-managed by Griffin Real Estate (GRE), finalised the acquisition of a portfolio of nine operating logistics parks developed by Panattoni Europe. The value of the deal is around €200 million. At the same time, Panattoni Europe jointly with ELI plans to invest circa €800 million to enlarge the newly acquired portfolio into a leading Polish logistic platform. GRE and Panattoni will co-manage the new venture going onwards.

The expansion of Romanian retailer Profi Rom Food SRL site in Ploieşti, Romania is at an advanced stage. The extension construction project is due to complete by September 2018.

Panattoni Europe nears the finish line with the launch of its fourth logistics centre in Tricity. Panattoni Park Gdańsk IV, with 41,500 sqm planned at full build-out, is only 4 km away from the Port of Gdańsk and the deep-water container terminal DCT Gdańsk, and the first tenants will be able to move into it already in the coming August.