The European Commission’s pending updates to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) promise potential opportunities for EU real estate investors. As the Commission considers the SFDR revisions, anticipated for an early 2025 release, investment firms should prepare for greater transparency and closer oversight of their portfolios. Strategic policy and research consultant Lisa Chase (Lucky Fish Research and Communications) has summarised the policy framework for Property Forum.

The gap between offer and final prices is narrowing in the Czech Republic and is helping transaction activity for the rest of 2024, according to the regular quarterly office market survey published by Colliers. 

Construction works in Hungary started during H1 2024 fell by 11% compared to the same period of last year, according to the latest EBI Construction Activity Report prepared by Eltinga, Buildecon and iBuild. 

Investors originating from Belgium had the biggest share in Romania’s commercial property sector in the first eight months, according to a Fortim Trusted Advisors study. 

The National Highway Company has submitted to the Ministry of Transport of the Slovak Republic a request for the issuance of a certificate of strategic investment for the construction of the D4 highway in the Bratislava-Rača - Bratislava-Záhorská Bystrica section. 

In the first half of 2024, revenues of the MLP Group amounted to PLN 187.7 million (€43.5 million) and the value of investment properties reached PLN 5,057 billion (€1,17 billion).

Panattoni has sold a 37,000 sqm distribution centre in Teresin (Mazovia region) that it developed for the use of Orbico Supply – an FMCG company and a distributor of cosmetics in Europe. The name of the buyer and the value of the transaction were not disclosed.

Eika Real Estate Fund (EREF) has acquired the BIG office in Poland, in the central part of Kraków, which is let to State Street Bank. The fund plans to further expand its investments in logistics, offices and retail parks in Poland. The price has not been revealed.

GTC Group has announced a consolidated net profit of €21.2 million for the second quarter of 2024, marking a significant turnaround from the €23.2 million loss reported during the same period last year. The company’s net profit from operations reached €33.5 million -  a also a significant improvement compared to the €20.9 million loss recorded y-to-y.

Despite persistently high interest rates and geopolitical tensions, growing investor interest - particularly in retail assets - is a sign of stabilization and a forthcoming recovery later in the year, says BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland in its latest report.