Slovakia's retail market added approximately 12,000 sqm of new leasable space in the second quarter of 2026, according to an analysis by CBRE Slovakia. Footfall at shopping centres managed by the company grew 3% year-on-year, while tenant turnover remained stable. Prime yields held steady at 6.50% for shopping centres and 6.75% for retail parks.

More than 100,000 sqm of office space was leased in Bucharest in the first half of 2026, slightly below the level recorded in the same period of 2025, according to a mid-year market update from Colliers. Asking rents for existing office space in the Central Business District and other central areas rose by nearly 12% year-on-year to €18 per sqm per month, up from €16. Across the market as a whole, average rents increased by around 3%, while new projects under development are quoting rents 10–15% above levels typically seen in their respective submarkets.

Bratislava's office market maintained strong leasing activity in the second quarter of 2026, with take-up reaching nearly 53,000 sqm, according to a new report by CBRE Slovakia. More than half of the total volume comprised renegotiations of existing leases, while net leasing activity, covering new leases, pre-leases and expansions, stood at approximately 25,000 sqm, a 51% increase year on year.

Hungary's commercial real estate investment volume reached €610 million in the first half of 2026, a 26.7% year-on-year increase and the strongest first-half result since 2021, according to Colliers Hungary. Domestic buyers accounted for 74% of activity. The office sector led with a 37.9% share, followed by retail at 32.9% and industrial and logistics at 18.5%. Prime yields held steady at 6.50% for offices, 7.00% for shopping centres and 6.75% for industrial assets. Based on the transaction pipeline, full-year volume could exceed €1.2 billion.

The Czech industrial and logistics real estate market remains stable despite global economic uncertainty, according to an analysis by Colliers. Total modern industrial and logistics space in the Czech Republic reached 13.7 million sqm in the second quarter of 2026, with gross take-up of approximately 460,000 sqm, close to the five-year average. The average vacancy rate rose gradually to 5.5%, while rents remained stable in most regions.

The Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate (PINK) has published figures on the Polish warehouse and industrial market for Q2 2026. The data is sourced from advisory firms active in the commercial real estate sector, including Axi Immo, BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, CBRE, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, Knight Frank, Newmark Polska and Savills, and covers modern warehouse stock, new completions, space under construction, take-up and vacancy levels.

652 new apartments were sold in Bratislava in the second quarter of 2026, a 12% decline compared with the 742 units sold in the first quarter, according to a residential market report by CBRE Slovakia. The available supply of new-build apartments rose above 4,000 units for the first time since 2017, reaching 4,231 homes across 105 projects, an increase of approximately 300 units quarter-on-quarter and 25% year-on-year. The pace of new project launches outstripped the pace of sales.

Romania's modern retail market added approximately 80,000 sqm of new retail space in the first half of 2026, down from around 122,000 sqm in the same period last year, bringing total stock to more than 5.2 million sqm, according to a Colliers report. The decline was largely due to the absence of large-scale projects, with the Mall Moldova extension having accounted for nearly 50% of first-half deliveries in 2025. Colliers has revised its full-year 2026 delivery estimate by approximately 35%, from around 230,000 sqm to 150,000 sqm. The largest completions in the first half of 2026 were the Arena Mall extension in Bacău (approximately 17,000 sqm) and the first phase of Urbano Shopping & Living in Cluj-Napoca (around 15,000 sqm), alongside Aurora Retail Park in Bacău, the Electroputere Parc extension in Craiova and Galeriile Iris in Târgoviște, each contributing approximately 10,000 to 12,000 sqm.

Romania's industrial and logistics market maintained positive momentum in the first half of 2026, with leasing activity accelerating in Q2 despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, according to the Romania Marketbeat Industrial Q2 2026 report published by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. Total modern stock reached 8.14 million sqm at the end of June, with approximately 4 million sqm located in Bucharest and its surrounding area, while the nationwide under-construction pipeline stood at 532,000 sqm.

Romania's real estate investment market recorded €211.1 million in transactions during the first half of 2026, a 46% decline compared with the same period in 2025, according to the Marketbeat Investment H1 2026 report by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. However, following the completion of AFI Europe's acquisition of six retail parks from MAS Real Estate in early July, together with several smaller deals, the total volume for the first seven months of the year has already surpassed the level recorded throughout the whole of 2025.