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James Fife, CEO of LCP Properties Poland has talked to Property Forum about the company`s investment plans, the impact of the high interest rates and the entrance into the warehouse market.

GLP has started the construction of another warehouse at Wrocław V Logistics Centre. Developed in the Wrocław metropolitan area, the warehouse park in Magnice is one of Poland’s largest logistics projects. The latest stage of the project had already been fully leased before the start of construction.

Halfway through 2023, Accolade’s portfolio amounts to over 1.3 million sqm of total leased space across 26 industrial parks in Poland. The industrial property investor maintains their strong position in several Polish regions, including Western Pomerania, Kuyavia-Pomerania, Lubuskie, and Podlaskie.

According to the latest report from Cushman & Wakefield, gross warehouse take-up in Poland stabilized at over 1 million sqm in Q2 2023. Furthermore, at the end of June 2023, there was 2.1 million sqm under construction, with the relatively strong development activity being driven by higher rents encouraging investors to launch new projects. In addition, Poland entered the top three EU markets in terms of warehouse stock, jumping into third spot behind Germany and France.

In the first half of 2023, the operating income of MLP Group reached PLN 185.7 million (€40.3 million). Compared to the same period a year ago, this number is higher by 52%.

According to the newest report prepared by Newmark Polska, in the second quarter of 2023, the total warehouse and industrial stock in Poland surpassed 30 million sqm. Both tenants and developers exhibited caution in decision-making, which resulted in a decline in leasing activity and construction volumes. Meanwhile, warehouse availability in existing facilities increased.

In 2022, the value of transactions on the Polish commercial real estate market amounted to approximately € 5.8 billion, which showed that after the difficult years of the pandemic and the outbreak of conflict in the East, Poland turned out to be a stable market with a large group of investors interested in investing capital in our country and a wide range of attractive investment products. However, in the first half of 2023, we witnessed the previously expected investment slowdown. After six months of  2023, the total investment volume amounted to only around €800 million, which means a decrease of 70 per cent compared to the same period a year earlier, says Bartłomiej Zagrodnik, CEO of Walter Herz advisory agency.

The Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate (PINK) has published figures summarizing the warehouse market in Poland for Q2 2023. The data is sourced from advisory companies from the commercial real estate sector (Axi Immo, BNP Paribas Real Estate, CBRE, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, Knight Frank, Newmark Polska, Savills) and includes information on modern warehouse stock, new completions, space under construction, take-up and vacancy levels.

Industrial developer Panattoni has obtained bank financing to start the construction of City Logistics Warsaw IX in Targówek, which is one of its urban parks in Warsaw. The company got €10.5 million from Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego for the new development. 

Eden Retail Park, owned by Focus Estate Fund, has achieved full occupancy. The retail project based in Zgorzelec, near the German border, has attracted a mix of 10 stores.