UBM Development Czechia is implementing all its current residential projects with BREEAM certifications. This is an ecological certification that confirms the standard of buildings in terms of sustainability and environmental friendliness. With BREEAM certification, UBM is currently building the Arcus City residential complex in the Prague-Reporyje district and the Astrid Garden residential project in Holešovice, Prague 7.

Apricot Capital Group has commenced the construction of the 423-unit Taśmowa 5 PRS development in the Mokotów area of Warsaw, The total investment exceeds PLN 270 million and ACG’s investor has provided the full sum in equity. 

Romanian developer Exigent Property Investment has secured a bank loan of €57.8 million from OTP for the construction of the first phase of its Exigent Plaza Residence complex in Bucharest. 

Asking prices for homes in Romania were up by an average of 1.6% to €1,435 per sqm in February after growing by 0.9% in the previous month, according to property classifieds platform Imobiliare.ro. 

Around 19,000 homes could be delivered in Bucharest and its surroundings this year, down 11% compared to 2022, while over 8,000 homes are at this moment in different development stages and could be delivered in 2024 and 2025, according to real estate consultancy SVN Romania. 

Romanian developer Arqa, founded by Pedro Construct’s owner Petre Niculae and businessman Florin Ababe, has started the construction of a new residential complex in northern Bucharest and will start two new residential investments in the western part of the city. 

Trikaya Investment Fund is changing its strategy to ensure stable returns for its investors and it is now adding residential projects to its portfolio. The first is the Brno project Čtvrť Pod Hády by the Trikaya development group of the same name. The estimated value of the entire project is more than CZK 4 billion (€168.5 million), writes e15.cz.

The estimated value of transactions in the Polish institutional rental market exceeded €1.8 billion at the end of 2022, most of which were contracts for projects under development (forward contracts), according to the latest DLA Piper and Savills report – PRS market in CEE. Experts expect that high real estate prices and the declining availability of mortgages will generate increased demand for apartment rentals in the coming years, and thus attract new investments to this market segment.

Romanian developer One United Properties has obtained a loan of €20 million from Banca Transilvania for the for the completion of the One Cotroceni Park residential development in Bucharest. 

Construction has begun on the Verde Slaný residential project in the royal town of Slany. The entire complex will be built in several stages on the former Benar cotton spinning mill site in the immediate vicinity of the revitalised Kumpán Garden. The estimated investment for the entire project is over CZK 1 billion (€42.3 million) with the planned construction of more than 220 new apartments.