CTP N.V. recorded gross rental income of €632.0 million in the first nine months of 2026, a 12.5% increase year-on-year, driven by new deliveries and like-for-like rental growth of 4.8%. Annualised rental income reached €871 million at 30 September 2026, with the company reiterating its target of €1.0 billion by 2027. Occupancy remained stable at 93%, with a weighted average unexpired lease term of 6.3 years.

Russian attacks have destroyed roughly half of Ukraine’s modern warehouse stock. By early September 2026, 2.1 million sqm of the 4.2 million sqm of Class A/B space that existed at the start of 2022 had been lost, according to the latest research by UTG. New construction has added around 800,000 sqm over the same period. That is not enough to offset the damage. The URE Club (Ukrainian Real Estate Club) has summarised the situation in an article for Property Forum.

Romania's industrial and logistics market continued to expand in the first nine months of 2026, with modern stock reaching 8.17 million sqm by the end of Q3, according to the Romania Industrial Marketbeat Q3 2026 report by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. Deliveries of almost 340,000 sqm over the period represented an increase of more than 60% compared with the same period in 2025. Development activity accelerated through Q3, when developers completed 133,000 sqm, up 54% on Q2 and 15% on Q1.

DL Invest Group has signed a loan agreement with BNP Paribas Bank Polska providing up to €54 million to finance the construction of logistics facilities. The loan matures in February 2033 and is secured against a portfolio of logistics properties.

CTP has started construction on CTPark Belgrade Borča, a new 40-hectare business park located 10 km from central Belgrade. The park is planned to reach over 220,000 sqm across 15 buildings, with units available from 300 sqm to over 50,000 sqm, and is intended to serve the Belgrade metropolitan market and wider distribution networks across Serbia.

Auto Partner, an automotive parts distributor operating across Europe, has leased 42,000 sqm of warehouse and office space at MLP Bieruń West, a logistics park under development in Upper Silesia near Tychy. The space includes approximately 600 sqm of office area, and handover is scheduled for September 2027. The deal is the largest lease agreement signed by MLP Group in 2026, with the park already around 75% leased ahead of completion. Once finished, MLP Bieruń West will offer a total of 56,300 sqm.

CTP has signed a lease with Pepco for 55,619 sqm at CTPark Bucharest West in Romania. The retailer will operate a regional distribution centre from the facility, serving the Romanian market and the wider Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region. Having previously occupied the building through a third-party logistics provider, Pepco has now entered a direct lease arrangement with CTP.

The boundaries between real estate and infrastructure are becoming increasingly blurred as power, connectivity and operational capacity emerge as critical factors in investment decisions. At the Real Estate Capital & Investment Decisions Forum 2026 in London, co-organised by Property Forum and RICS, experts discussed how logistics, data centres and transport infrastructure are converging, and why flexibility will be essential as technology and occupier requirements continue to evolve.

This year's EXPO REAL trade fair in Munich confirmed that the European commercial real estate market is gradually regaining momentum, though not on the terms seen in the previous cycle. Fewer investors are waiting for conditions to improve, while more are focusing on opportunities to complete transactions in the current environment. Capital remains available but highly selective, with asset quality, cash flow stability, tenant credibility and the viability of business assumptions now carrying far greater weight than access to financing alone.

LemonTree has started construction of Stream Kraków, a logistics and business complex located next to Kraków-Balice Airport and the A4 motorway. The project will offer nearly 30,000 sqm of logistics and service space, with completion scheduled for Q2 2027. Goldbeck has been appointed as general contractor.