CBRE Group has been named the top global real estate advisory firm in the 2015 Euromoney Real Estate Awards. CBRE has now achieved the top award for four consecutive years and eight times since the real estate awards program launched 11 years ago. Globally, CBRE was also ranked highest overall in the Sales/Leasing and Valuation categories.
CBRE announced that it has closed the acquisition of Johnson Controls, Inc.’s Global Workplace Solutions business. Global Workplace Solutions is a market-leading provider of enterprise facilities management solutions for global corporations and other large occupiers of commercial real estate. Global Workplace Solutions had revenue of more than $3.0 billion in calendar year 2014.
Europe’s prime office market vacancy rate is expected to fall back to its 2009 level by the end of 2016 and then to continue declining over the rest of the decade, according to global real estate advisor, CBRE. In Europe’s major cities, office development is not keeping pace with growing demand driven by improving employment trends and almost all key office markets are expected to show falling vacancy rates and accelerated rental growth over the next five years.
According to global property adviser Cushman & Wakefield, the outlook is generally positive in the Central European office markets of Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Slovakia. Three out of the five markets are anticipating rental growth over the next three years (Bratislava, Budapest and Prague).
Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ have reached a definitive agreement to merge and are set to become one of the largest global real estate services companies. The new company, which will operate under the Cushman & Wakefield brand, will have revenues over $5.5 billion, over 43,000 employees and will manage more than 4 billion square feet globally on behalf of institutional, corporate and private clients.
Avast Software is planning to recruit 200 people this year. Due to that the company shall lease 15,000 square meter in a new office building Enterprise in Pankrac district, Prague.
“Amstar is currently focused on ensuring the success of Zlota 44, though we will plan to look for new investment opportunities in Poland and other countries within the CEE region when the time is right,” said Jeffrey Stonger, vice president of Amstar, an US fund that bought Złota 44 project (Poland) together with BBI Development in 2014. The company is currently mostly active in Turkey. “In addition to Turkey and Poland, Amstar has identified Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary as potentially interesting countries to invest,” Jeffrey Stonger told ‘Eurobuild CEE’ magazine, a monthly publication covering the CEE region's real estate and construction industry.“For all of our international investments we utilize a joint venture structure with a local operator, so it is crucial for us to find best-in-class development partners within each market. As for targeted market segments, Amstar invests in all major property types (residential – not only highest class, retail, logistics and office) and we target opportunistic investments, meaning most of our projects are either ground-up development or re-development. Similar to our experience with Zlota 44 in Warsaw, when we enter a new market we tend to focus on the largest cities with the best growth prospects,” said the Amstar’s vice president, adding: “At the moment we are not looking for anything else in Poland, but in longer term we will certainly look at a growing platform within three four years”.
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