The maturity of the industrial real estate sector in Poland’s five largest markets does not necessarily mean limited investment opportunities for developers and tenants. The importance of smaller markets has been growing recently in Poland, which gives the possibility to expand into locations that were previously out of developers’ and tenants’ interests, according to JLL.

Panattoni has delivered its first Class A warehouse in Żory, Silesia. Nearly half out of the initial 36,500 sqm has already been leased out to first tenants. This February, cargo-partner spedycja sp. z o.o. is moving into the facility, to be followed by Piast Cargo and a tenant from the food industry in March. At full build-out, Panattoni Park Żory will total 84,000 sqm. The project is under construction in a strategic location in Southern Poland, close to the Czech border.

In reaction to increasing demand, CTP has announced the start of the construction of new areas in Trnava and entry into a completely new location, the city of Prešov.

In 2019, 7R commissioned 14 new warehouse facilities in 11 Polish markets. At the same time, the developer increased the level of leased space by almost 45%, successfully sold projects, established international strategic partnerships for the construction of further warehouses, and strengthened the team with the best industry professionals.

The stock of industrial and logistics space on the Romanian market has exceeded the 4 million sqm threshold, 90% of the total stock being concentrated in eight large cities from the southern, central and western parts of Romania, according to a new report by the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.

Prologis has appointed Paweł Sapek as Regional Head Central Europe, a role in which he is responsible for maintaining strong team leadership, identifying new opportunities and steering the region towards new paths of development. Sapek is now responsible for overseeing the company's entire CE portfolio across Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, with a total area of 4.2 million square meters. In addition, he will run the Polish branch of Prologis and directly supervise operations in Hungary.

Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH, one of the leading specialists for logistics and industrial properties in Germany and other countries in Europe, is expanding its footprint in Central Eastern Europe. Martin Polák, a former managing director at Prologis, will join Garbe as Managing Director CEE and will be in charge of the further expansion in the region.

Marvipol Development special purpose vehicles have concluded two preliminary property sale agreements with LaSalle Investment Management KVG. The initial sale price is approx. €29.6 million net.

In 2019, five out of the ten European markets with the highest logistics rental growth were located in CEE. Last year, net effective rents rose more than 5% for Europe as a whole, the highest level ever recorded. This growth is driven by headline rent growth as, after several years of concession reductions, many markets across Europe are currently at very low levels of incentives such as free rent. Prologis published its Logistics Rent Index.

Panattoni will soon start the construction of Panattoni Park Tricity South II. The first 25,000 sqm out of the 70,000 sqm planned will be available in August 2020.