Adventum Investment Fund Management, the CEE-focused real estate investment manager, has completed the second close of its latest fund, Penta in October 2021. The second acquisition of the Fund is the Mercedes Benz Headquarters in Warsaw which was developed in 2004 by the Daimler Group.

In Q3, the commercial real estate investment market revived and was accompanied by a much greater optimism than during the previous periods of 2021. Logistics and industrial space are still the leaders among the sectors. An important event was again the change of ownership of the Warsaw Metropolitan office building, the value of which exceeded PLN 1 billion

Savills has been instructed as the exclusive leasing agent for Crown Square, an office building at 31 Przyokopowa Street in Warsaw’s Wola district, right next to the Rondo Daszyńskiego metro station.

Panattoni has been chosen by Alibaba's logistic arm Cainiao to support AliExpress, the global online marketplace part of Alibaba Group, visited by hundreds of millions of shoppers each month. Its warehouse of over 10,000 sqm in Panattoni Park Łódź West will be devoted to servicing AliExpress sellers. The facility will serve as a fulfilment centre for AliExpress merchants shipping products directly from Poland and is the first major investment in fulfilment infrastructure made to support AliExpress merchants serving the Central & Eastern European Region. The centre will also play a strategic role in the company’s deliveries to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, and Austria. 

According to Savills, investment in the European real estate market is forecast to exceed last year’s level by at least 15% and reach around €270 billion in 2021, with the living sectors and logistics markets likely to account for a significantly higher proportion of total investment than their historic averages. Preliminary estimates of the investment volume in Poland after the third quarter of this year show the absolute dominance of the logistics sector.

Pan-European logistics platform Crossbay has purchased 100,000 sqm of warehouse space in two sites in Warsaw and Łódź. Both sites were acquired from Panattoni Europe, a developer of logistics and industrial space, for an undisclosed sum

CA Immo has signed a lease extension agreement in the Warsaw office building Postępu 14. AstraZeneca Pharma Poland has decided to stay in the building for another 5 years and lease an additional 3,000 sqm of modern workspace. Consequently, the seat of AstraZeneca Pharma Poland in Warsaw will amount to ca. 21,000 sqm, which represents more than 60% of the building’s entire area.

The commercial real estate market, together with many other economic areas, after being impacted heavily by the Covid pandemic, is undergoing recovery. These positive indicators are also mirrored in the retail real estate sector. Recent figures indicate that retail parks and convenience centres are recovering strongly as are discount shops, while large shopping centres are reporting increasing footfall levels, optimistic economic outlook; these are the key highlights from Q3 of the year. The analysis of the retail real estate sector was prepared by experts from BNP Paribas Real Estate.

Companies have signed more new leases agreements and are keen to use ''flex'' spaces before taking up their target office space. The decreasing activity of developers has helped to stabilise the vacancy rate q-o-q, but its high level poses a challenge for landlords. JLL summarizes the Warsaw office market at the end of Q3 2021.

Roger Andersson, Managing Director of Vastint Poland talked to Property Forum about the accelerating residential property prices, faith in hotel investments in Poland, and constantly rising construction costs.