Romania’s residential construction sector recorded a 3.1% contraction in 2025 compared to the previous year. The total number of completed dwellings reached 59,062, marking a decrease of 1,916 units from the 60,978 reported in 2024, according to provisional data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

Poland’s recent cycle of interest rate cuts has improved financing conditions and reinforced investor appetite for major cities across CEE. It has also intensified the race for the remaining attractive buildings and development plots in core locations. In this competitive environment, institutional investors benefit most when they work with platforms that manage the entire process from A to Z – from identifying and acquiring the right site or standing asset, through design, permitting and construction, all the way to long‑term operation and asset management, ensuring stable returns on capital. 

Romania's green certification market remained active in 2025, with over 4.6 million sqm of real estate space receiving sustainability credentials despite European changes to reporting obligations.

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Baltic investors are becoming increasingly active in the Polish real estate market, reflecting a search for larger and more liquid investment environments than those available in their home markets. At the same time, pricing expectations, liquidity conditions and asset management opportunities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania continue to shape how investors approach expansion and portfolio allocation across the region. Property Forum reports from the Nordic Real Estate Forum 2026, organised in Tallinn.

Zeitgeist Asset Management, specialising in development services and asset management for private and institutional investors, has completed changes to its ownership structure. As part of this transaction, the Family Office of Co-Founder Sebastian Junghänel sold its stake to Family Office Noack, concluding their long-term business partnership.

Belgian developer Atenor has sold its @Expo office building in Bucharest to a private real estate investment firm. The 57,666 sqm office building was delivered in 2023 and is currently 29% leased.

The latest EBI Construction Activity Report found that although the expansion of M1 motorway caused a surge in the value of started construction projects in Q3 2025, the last three months of the year brought very low activity-start. Even at current price, such a low number of construction projects did not start in a quarter in the past nine years.

The flexible workspace sector in Prague has recorded its strongest five-year period in history, according to a report by Savills. As of December 2025, total flexible workspace stock reached 130,500 sqm, representing a 60% increase compared to 2019.

This week’s news was dominated by annual financial results and industrial investment activity, alongside signals of tightening conditions in key office markets. Here are the most relevant stories shaping the regional market.