In Q3, the commercial real estate investment market revived and was accompanied by a much greater optimism than during the previous periods of 2021. Logistics and industrial space are still the leaders among the sectors. An important event was again the change of ownership of the Warsaw Metropolitan office building, the value of which exceeded PLN 1 billion

Bayer Property has bought an 11,000 sqm plot for residential development in Budapest’s District 10 from the GEOS Group.

Although real estate development, investment and lending to the sector have taken a beating due to the pandemic's effects on the global economy, according to the results of the latest edition of KPMG’s Property Lending Barometer, property lending has gained an increased importance for banks in 2021, as on the one hand real estate loan portfolios are deteriorating, and, on the other, market conditions continue to gradually improve. Moreover, the tougher times mean that lending institutions within the region are able to pick and choose what types of developments and investments to grant loans to under stricter terms and conditions.

Hagag Development Europe has officially opened the trading day on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) on October 24. The property developer has raised around €28 million after going public last August on TASE. 

Cushman & Wakefield’s sales team managed the sale of approximately 45,000 sqm of land in the area of Borská pole in Plzeň for its client, Precision Castparts Corp. The purchaser, Arete, is aiming to redevelop the area.

In October 2021, Hotel Astral became the second hotel in Fidurock's residential portfolio. On an area of ​​2,689 sqm, it offers its visitors a total of 60 comfortably furnished rooms, a modern conference room with a capacity of up to 100 seats and a summer terrace for quiet outdoor seating.  

Patria Logistics-Retail Fund, managed by Patria Investment Company, successfully finalised the purchase of the Plana Logistics Park (PLP), located in Plana nad Luznici, Southern Bohemia. PLP is the third property acquired to the Fund and increases the total number of real estate assets owned and controlled by PIC to eight.

M7 Real Estate, the pan-European investor and asset manager specialising in multi-tenanted properties, announces that it has fully deployed the capital raised on behalf of M7 CEREF II, its value-add fund targeting logistics and office investments in key Central European markets. The final acquisition is Pallag 43, a modern, last-mile logistics asset in the north of Budapest acquired from a private investor for €9.6 million.

According to Savills, investment in the European real estate market is forecast to exceed last year’s level by at least 15% and reach around €270 billion in 2021, with the living sectors and logistics markets likely to account for a significantly higher proportion of total investment than their historic averages. Preliminary estimates of the investment volume in Poland after the third quarter of this year show the absolute dominance of the logistics sector.

Pan-European logistics platform Crossbay has purchased 100,000 sqm of warehouse space in two sites in Warsaw and Łódź. Both sites were acquired from Panattoni Europe, a developer of logistics and industrial space, for an undisclosed sum