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In January, the NREP team expanded to include the Head of the Living Investments Department. Maciej Piotrowicz will be in charge of investments and the development of projects in this segment in Poland. By the end of the year, 10 people will be part of his team

The Czech patent and pins factory owned by Koh-i-Noor Waldes is moving out of Prague after 120 years. Due to the merge with Massag factory the company is heading to Bílovec now. The current owner Pražská správa nemovitostí (PSN) plans to transform the historical factory buildings in the Prague Vršovice complex into a multifunctional project with 550 modern apartments and shops, e15.cz reports.

Romanian Vox Property Group has secured a loan of €10.5 million from CEC Bank that will be used for the completion of Vox Vertical Village luxury residential project in Timișoara. 

AFI Europe has taken stock of the results for 2021, a year in which it has been fully committed to implementing its new corporate strategy focused exclusively on rental housing. The company is currently constructing four buildings in three residential projects in Prague. It plans to complete the larger part of them this year.

2021 in the residential market in Poland was marked by a deepening imbalance between supply and demand. Developers put up for sale 11,000 fewer units than they sold. Buyers considered flats mainly as a safe capital investment. Had it not been for the pandemic, the slowdown that awaits the Polish residential market in 2022 would have arrived much earlier.

Duna House has released its monthly transaction estimate, showing that there were 10,815 residential property transactions in Hungary in January 2022. Although this corresponds to a 3.3% decline over the same month of 2021, it is in the same league as the first months of the years between 2017 and 2019.

Around 50,000 apartments were transacted on the Bucharest market in 2021, up 40% year-on-year, while some 67,000 new residential units were completed across Romania in the same period, according to a report by real estate consultancy Colliers. 

Romanian developer Forty Management expects a turnover of 397 million lei (€80 million) and a net profit of 188 million lei (€38 million) in 2022, while total investments in residential projects across Bucharest will reach 155 million(€31.3 million).

Prima Development Group has announced the completion of the Core Timpuri Noi residential project in Bucharest following an investment of €23 million.

Investment transactions on the Romanian real estate market could exceed the €1 billion threshold this year, considering the projects in various stages of negotiation, according to Colliers.  At present, there are several transactions in the pipeline worth at least €100 million each, and others are ready to go on the market