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04
Dec
2025
Dec
2025
Romania's retail space hits 5 million sqm milestone
Romania's modern retail market continues expanding, surpassing 5 million sqm of leasable retail space in 2025, according to Colliers data. The approximately 190,000 sqm delivered this year consolidated a stock heavily concentrated in Bucharest and five other counties, which together account for almost half of the total. However, Romania remains below regional peers in retail space per capita, indicating potential for further development.
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27
Feb
2024
Feb
2024
Hotel occupancy in Bucharest up 5% in 2023
The occupancy rate in Bucharest’s hotel market was up 5% in 2023 compared to the previous year, but it remains around 10% under 2019. However, average revenue per room was up 12%, which is higher than in pre-pandemic times, according to a Cushman & Wakefield Echinox report.
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Latest news
- New office deliveries in Warsaw top 40,000 sqm in Q1 2026
- GTC secures €149 million refinancing for German resi assets
- Bucharest office fit-out, among the most affordable in CEE
- Echo Investment marks 30 years on the Warsaw Stock Exchange
- Industrial leads Polish investment in Q1 2026
- Indotek CEO backs wealth tax in Hungary but warns of risks
- Crestyl secures €165 million funding for Polish expansion
- NEPI Rockcastle to add EV charging points across Polish retail portfolio
- Panattoni builds 11,000 sqm BTS facility for InPost in Sosnowiec
- We are at an inflexion point in the investment market
New leases
- Vastint Romania secured its first tenant for Bucharest-based Timpuri Noi Square Phase 2, signing SCOR for 3,250 sqm. The transaction, brokered by CBRE, facilitates SCOR’s expansion within Vastint’s local portfolio. The company has previously leased 2,320 sqm in Business Garden Bucharest.
- EVO Properties has named Alexandru Marin as the new Property Manager for the London and Oslo office buildings in Bucharest. He brings over 15 years of property management experience.
- IF&B Mille Sapori, the importer and distributor of Italian food products in Poland, has leased 4,118 sqm in the MLP Pruszków II complex. The lease deal was brokered by Coldwell Banker Commercial.
New appointments
- Katarzyna Myjak has joined Axi Immo as Senior Business Advisory Manager, tasked with strengthening the company’s Industrial & Logistics business line.
- Czech investment group SCF has expanded its team by appointing Jan Simandl as Senior Leasing Team Leader. In this role, Simandl will oversee leasing activities across the company’s commercial property portfolio. He previously worked for CPI Property Group and CBRE.
- Michał Kochanowski-Laren has joined Avison Young Poland’s Technical Advisory and Project Management team as Project Manager. In his new role, he is responsible for delivering a variety of consultancy projects across all segments of the commercial real estate market in Poland. Kochanowski-Laren is an electrical engineer and a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology.
