Savills Investment Management and Vestas Investment Management have agreed on two lease extensions totalling 46,000 sqm in France and Poland.

Savills Investment Management (Savills IM) signed 48 lease agreements in Poland in the first half of 2025, covering more than 211,000 sqm. Lease extensions accounted for 68.5% of the space, tenant expansions for 28.8% and new leases for 2.7%. Following these transactions, the company’s Polish portfolio reached an occupancy rate of 96%.

Savills Investment Management has named Ilona Szafer as its new Head of Poland. Based in Warsaw, she will be responsible for overseeing the firm’s €1.7 billion portfolio in the country, which includes assets across the office, logistics and retail sectors.

Savills Investment Management announced its global outlook for real estate investment markets in 2024, highlighting several key sectors it believes offer rewarding opportunities for informed investors.

Savills Investment Management has signed two lease agreements at Park Szczecin Trzebusz totalling almost 30,000 sqm. The new tenant of the warehouse centre in Szczecin is Autodoc Logistics. Furthermore, one of the current tenants, Hegen Europe, has decided to expand its space as part of the logistics park within the Savills IM portfolio in Poland.

Savills Investment Management has signed an extension agreement with Multidekor S.A. concerning the lease of approx. 23,000 sqm of space at Konotopa Park II logistics centre near Warsaw. The lease has been extended by five years.

Savills Investment Management has signed a lease extension at Park Szczecin Trzebusz with Carlsberg Supply Company Polska S.A., a member of one of the world’s largest brewers, Carlsberg Group. Carlsberg decided to continue leasing almost 15,000 sqm of warehouse space at the facility.

Savills Investment Management has outlined its global outlook for real estate investment markets in 2023. While next year may prove challenging for all investors, in the context of global market turbulence, Savills IM sees select opportunities in asset classes with strong long-term fundamentals such as urban industrial and logistics, affordable housing and essential retail.

Property Forum sat down with Piotr Trzciński, Head of Poland and Andrew Allen, Global Head of Research, Product Strategy and Development at Savills Investment Management, to talk about the company’s investment strategy in Europe and Poland in particular. They also talked about Savills IM’s ambition to become net zero by 2040 and the way ESG is shaping future developments in the European commercial real estate sector.

Savills Investment Management, the international real estate investment manager, transacted more than €3.4 billion globally in 2021, including c. €2.6 billion in Europe and c. €670 million in Asia. Globally, transactions included around €2.1 billion of acquisitions and around €1.2 billion of disposals, resulting in a net investment of c. €900 million. The firm now manages approximately €24.8 billion in assets under management (AuM) as of September 2021