STC Partners will start a new residential project in Bucharest after completing the acquisition of a land plot for €7.2 million.

Monia Dobrescu, Partner at Mușat & Asociații, spoke to Property Forum about the growing role of ESG criteria in bank financing of real estate projects and the prospects for investment in the local market in 2024.

Romanian developer Eden Capital aims to deliver by H2 2026 a new high-end residential complex in northern Bucharest with an estimated value of €130 million. 

InteRo Property Development, owned by the Canadian Topolinski investors family, has kicked off the construction of a new mixed-use project in Bucharest with a valuation of €1 billion. 

The average offer price of new residential projects in Brno has exceeded CZK 129,400 per sqm (€5,093) and Q2 2024 has broken the previous record from 2022. Demand has also grown sharply, as data by Trikaya shows.

According to the monitored data and analysis of the real estate market by BuiltMind, the demand for new apartments in Prague has continued to grow in Q2 2024. Compared to Q2 2023, there is an increase of more than 67%.

Vlad Musteață, CEO of North Bucharest Investments, spoke to Property Forum about the outlook for the residential market in the north of Bucharest, as well as the agency’s accelerated sales growth over the past two years.

Zeitgeist Asset Management has launched renting apartments and studios in the newly completed Delta Hagibor Residence on the border of Vinohrady, Strašnice and Žižkov in Prague. Invesco Real Estate owns the project and Zeitgeist has been given the mandate for its complete leasing and management.

The average flat size in Poland is 21 sqm smaller than the EU average and the overcrowding rate is nearly 20 percentage points higher, says Cushman & Wakefield in its latest report. It is therefore no wonder that despite increasingly prohibitive prices, housing demand continues to grow, thereby fuelling demand for mortgages. According to BIK data, June 2024 saw an almost 52% year-on-year increase in mortgage enquiries, with this growth also driven by interest rate cuts - the first since 2021. It would take Polish people wanting to buy a dream home several years to save up enough for a 20% mortgage deposit. Unfortunately, Cushman & Wakefield’s forecasts indicate that price growth is unlikely to ease to give Polish consumers some respite. Contrary to intentions, factors that are likely to add to their disadvantage include a new governmental support scheme and constrained land availability.  

Developer J&T Real Estate is requesting a construction change permit for the Downtown Yards project, SME.sk reports. Along with minor changes, there is an important one reflecting a trend obvious since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.