Rising construction costs and strong demand from investors are at play, of course, but the picture is a lot more complicated than that. Players of the dynamically growing private rental sector (PRS) discussed market trends at Living Investment Forum 2021, Property Forum's annual event in Warsaw. 

Adventum Investment Fund Management, the CEE-focused real estate investment manager, has completed the second close of its latest fund, Penta in October 2021. The second acquisition of the Fund is the Mercedes Benz Headquarters in Warsaw which was developed in 2004 by the Daimler Group.

Savills has been instructed as the exclusive leasing agent for Crown Square, an office building at 31 Przyokopowa Street in Warsaw’s Wola district, right next to the Rondo Daszyńskiego metro station.

Pan-European logistics platform Crossbay has purchased 100,000 sqm of warehouse space in two sites in Warsaw and Łódź. Both sites were acquired from Panattoni Europe, a developer of logistics and industrial space, for an undisclosed sum

CA Immo has signed a lease extension agreement in the Warsaw office building Postępu 14. AstraZeneca Pharma Poland has decided to stay in the building for another 5 years and lease an additional 3,000 sqm of modern workspace. Consequently, the seat of AstraZeneca Pharma Poland in Warsaw will amount to ca. 21,000 sqm, which represents more than 60% of the building’s entire area.

Companies have signed more new leases agreements and are keen to use ''flex'' spaces before taking up their target office space. The decreasing activity of developers has helped to stabilise the vacancy rate q-o-q, but its high level poses a challenge for landlords. JLL summarizes the Warsaw office market at the end of Q3 2021.

Insurance company Warta has just moved into the skyscraper, developed by Ghelamco near Daszyńśkiego roundabout in Warsaw.

According to “Office Occupier: Office Market in Warsaw”, a report published by Cresa Poland, total leasing volume for the first three quarters of 2021 topped 398,100 sqm, accounting for 51.2% of the annual average for 2015-2020.

The Generation Park Y office building in Warsaw has been awarded the WELL Health-Safety Rating certificate. It is the tenth project of Skanska’s commercial development business unit in CEE region that has been awarded with such a distinction. 

Walter Herz company has been selected as the exclusive agent responsible for commercialization of warehouse, production and office space in OKAM’s investment located on the site of the former car factory at Jagiellońska Street in Warsaw.