There were only 8,326 residential transactions closed in Hungary in October 2022 which is the lowest figure for the month since 2012, brokerage firm Duna House reports.

Romanian property company Metav will invest more than €40 million in the development of a new residential project with 164 units in Bucharest. 

Piotr Szafarz, Partner, Head of Real Estate in Poland and CEE, Dentons talked to Property Forum about the forecasts for the PRS market in Poland, the impact of the war in Ukraine on the European properties and the expected changes in financing conditions.

Romanian developer One United Properties has secured the building permit for One High District, a large-scale premium development with 786 apartments. The gross development value of the project is €154.2 million and delivery is estimated for the end of 2025. 

Construction of the Római Part residential park by Hungarian developer WING’s umbrella brand Living is already underway just off the riverbank of the Danube in Budapest. The 257-unit complex is the closest residential development of this size to the river.

Indotek Group’s first large-scale residential project in Budapest, Buda Bright, was launched in March 2021 and is planned to be handed over at the end of next year. 

Architecture and design studio Obermeyer Helika has completed the documentation for a building permit for its latest residential building, Semerínka. The project, which is expected to start building in Prague 5 in 2023, will include not only apartments and garage parking but also a community garden, Obermeyer Helika announced today.

Romanian developer One United Properties says it will reconvert one of the office buildings in One North Gate into residential units under the One North Lofts brand. 

Build to rent or build to sell? The participants of CEE Property Forum in Vienna were sure that in the current residential market environment of high inflation and rising interest rates, building for PRS purposes is the only valid option.

The City of Prague plans to improve conditions for real estate developers by lowering the number of mandatory parking places in residential and office buildings. Thanks to a new legal amendment, they will no longer have to build a mandatory garage space for each apartment. The amendment, which will now be open for 45 days for comments, would help real estate investors and developers, as well as those who want to do extensive reconstruction, writes E15.cz.