Over the past year, leasing activity in the industrial real estate market in Slovakia has slowed with demand shifts in the automotive, retail and e-commerce sectors. The starting point for insights into logistics trends at Bratislava Property Forum 2025 has been well set taking the discussion further touching the risks, opportunities, new construction law and adaptability.

Jana Gerhátová has been in charge of marketing at industrial developer P3 Logistic Parks since April, with responsibility including the Czech Republic and Slovakia region. 

During a geopolitically turbulent period, the core capital is usually focusing on the domestic market. However, CEE investors do not hesitate to seek opportunities in neighbouring markets, bearing in mind the importance of diversification and the need for strategic partnerships to manage risks and maximise returns. These strategies and challenges have been discussed at Bratislava Property Forum 2025 in the panel focused on commercial real estate, chaired by Rudolf Nemec MRICS, Partner & Head of Capital Markets at Cushman & Wakefield Slovakia.

COOP Jednota has opened a new ecological non-stop supermarket in Prievidza in central Slovakia. The entire complex has been built as a wooden building. 

The Natland investment group has become a co-investor and partner of WOOD & Co. in the acquisition of the VIVO! shopping centre and myhive office buildings in Bratislava. 

GARBE has appointed Zuzana Černá, an experienced professional in financial and operational real estate management, as the Financial Controller for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Slate Asset Management has disposed of a three-asset OBI retail store portfolio in Slovakia. The buyer is the Lindner Group from Germany. The seller has used the advisory service of Savills.

JTRE has announced the successful signing of senior financing for its flagship green project, Downtown Yards in Bratislava.

ITB has launched a pre-sale of apartments in the fifth stage of the project Čerešne Plaza, bringing 423 new apartments to the Dúbravka district in Bratislava.

The developer Woodrock is preparing the modified mixed-use project Slnečný vrch in Devínská Nová Ves in Bratislava for execution. For now, only the building permit process is to be completed, reports yimba.sk.