Members of the panel on ESG investments at CEE Property Forum 2022 in Vienna agreed that environmental issues are addressed much better than the social and governance parts of ESG. Panellists emphasised that leading organizations in the CRE industry should give clear guidance for improving 'S' and 'G' performance at all levels.
Dr. Erwin Hanslik MRICS, Taylor Wessing’s CEE Head of Real Estate & Construction and head of the firm's Prague and Brno offices, talked to Property Forum about the legal challenges real estate investors and developers in the Czech Republic have to face.
The government of Slovakia is opening some shops that have been closed for the past two weeks, while the country's parliament will debate and possibly pass the cabinet’s proposals to help companies and the self-employed. We asked Andrej Leontiev LL.M., Partner at Taylor Wessing to comment on the aid package.
The Czech Republic has one of the longest and most complicated building procedures in the world and is ranked 156 out of 190 countries observed by The World Bank. Fortunately for real estate developers, the situation is slowly changing. Erwin Hanslik MRICS, Partner and CEE Head of Real Estate at Taylor Wessing talked to us about the legal and regulatory challenges investors and developers need to face in the Czech Republic.
Modern technology has revolutionised the way we work and significantly altered the leasing process. Andrej Leontiev LL.M., Partner at Taylor Wessing analysed current trends on Bratislava’s office market from a legal perspective.
Schreder Polska and Urgo Polfa Łódź have extended their lease agreements for office space in the West Station buildings in Warsaw. The companies are using a total of more than 1,000 sqm of space.
Workspace Studio, a company specialized in office design solutions, has signed a 5-year lease extension for its office in Bucharest-based Sky Tower. The contract also includes a space expansion up to 810 sqm in the project owned by RPHI.
Depanero, the largest electro-IT service company in Romania and part of the eMAG group, has leased over 4,000 sqm in two of its buildings in Sema Parc based in Bucharest. The transaction was intermediated by real estate consultancy Griffes Romania.
New appointments
Agnieszka Baczyńska took up the position of Head of Leasing - Retail in CPIPG. She is responsible for the commercialization of retail facilities from the CPIPG portfolio. Baczyńska also manages the leasing of office space on the buildings owned by CPIPG.
Ferenc Gondi has been appointed to a new post as Country Head for CTP Hungary. He's been part of CTP's activity for over 5 years.
Barbora Jansová joined Building & Project Consultancy team at Savills Prague Office as the new ESG Consultant & Project Manager in September 2022. She will be working alongside the Head of BPC, Jan Jurčíček.
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