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Over the past few decades, the structure of the Prague office market has evolved into twelve major office hubs, reports Savills in its Prague Office Hubs 2025. These areas form the City’s largest concentrations of high-quality office space.

Property Forum is proud to present the fifth edition of its annual listing of the 50 most influential people in the Romanian real estate market. The publication, along with all previous editions, is now available on the Property Forum website.

Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has experienced profound demographic and economic shifts. One of the most significant developments has been the increasing strategic importance of the country’s western regions—Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Zakarpattia—as safe havens for internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as new focal points for business relocation and investment. The Ukrainian Real Estate Club has summarised the situation for Property Forum.

The strong demand for apartments in new buildings in the Moravian metropolis is not slowing down, according to the latest analysis by Trikaya. In the first quarter of 2025, developers in Brno have sold 479 new apartments, the most since Q2 2021. 

The European Commission’s recent pause on reporting obligations for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is consequential for real estate investors’ Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) compliance. Without the CSRD requirement, funders’ ability to collect asset data for SFDR disclosure becomes more difficult. Yet because real estate developers and portfolio managers have a profit-driven imperative to measure and maximise operational efficiencies, they are well positioned to meet investors’ data requirements. Particularly to secure financing for “dark green” or “light green” retail funds, as defined by the SFDR, real estate firms must continue complying with financer mandates. Jaroslav (Jaro) Mida of MINT group discusses why operating measurably high-efficiency real estate is the pragmatic choice for funders, developers and the environment in an article prepared for Property Forum by Lisa Chase (Lucky Fish Research & Communications).

Prime rents on Europe’s leading shopping streets, in shopping centres, and retail parks have increased on average during 2024. Leisure concept operators have been the most active segment, occupying 20% more floor space year-on-year, according to a study by Cushman & Wakefield. 

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European commercial real estate investment volumes are forecast to grow by 13% in 2025, but Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is expected to outperform this average, with a projected 32% year-on-year increase, reports Savills. 

The Czech retail has been performing well, shows Shopping Centre Index from CBRE monitoring the the last year. The positive trend has been significantly contributed by the growth of real wages  supporting higher customer confidence together with the low level of inflation.

Only one office project was completed in the Prague office market during Q1 2025, adding 8,700 sqm to the total stock of 3.96 million sqm, reveals Prague Research Forum in its Office Market Figures for Q1 2025.