Coworking and flexible offices are one of the few industries that have been significantly boosted by the coronavirus pandemic. Although HubHubu, the operator of two shared spaces in Prague, had its occupancy reduced to 50 percent during the strictest closures, this year it is reporting that it is practically occupied. One of the reasons is the hybrid work style, to which a significant part of companies have reoriented. Instead of startups, flexible offices are increasingly being rented by larger companies as well.
After three quarters this year, the Prague office market already exceeded the volume of transactions from the covid years 2020 and 2021. The year-on-year increase in gross and net realized demand, i.e. new contracts and their extensions, amounted to 38 percent. Office vacancy has fallen by 0.3 percentage points since the start of the year to 8.1 percent, and demand for flexible space is growing. Prices will increase in the coming year, which, according to representatives of construction and real estate companies, will be reflected in inflationary clauses in contracts and energy prices.
At the end of last week, the Crestyl Group won the award for the best office project in the 22nd CIJ Awards, for the DOCK IN FIVE administrative building. It was approved in May of this year and is the last part of the now complete DOCK district, which has grown up around two blind branches of the Vltava in Prague's Libni. The CIJ Awards are the longest running awards in the field of commercial real estate in the Czech Republic and are also awarded in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
CBRE, a world leader in commercial real estate services, summarizes the results of an extensive comparative analysis focused on the benefits of green certifications in office leasing. On a sample of 58 million m2 of office space and 44,500 lease agreements concluded in 18 European countries, including the Czech Republic, it shows the value that green certifications such as BREEAM or LEED bring to owners of administrative properties. Based on a comparison of several key indicators, CBRE has shown that the average vacancy rate in certified buildings is almost 2% lower than in non-certified competition, while the price per square meter of leased space is, on the contrary, 5.5% higher. The comparison of individual European markets is also interesting, from which the Prague one emerges as mature. Owners of sustainable buildings here achieve very good results in the long term.
This year, Passerinvest Group, a.s. (hereinafter referred to as Passerinvest), which has long been developing the locality in the vicinity of the Roztyly metro station, contributed a generous amount of CZK 1 million to the support of cultural/social events of the Prague 11 city district. The events are open to the general public and their programme is always very diverse, from concerts of various genres and exhibitions to workshops and programmes for children.
In the center of Ostrava, on Kostelní náměstí, the implementation of the first stage of the multifunctional building VÁCLAV has begun. The building will offer apartments, office space and commercial units on an area of 4,424 m2. The developer of the CZK 300 million project is the ANTRACIT group, the general contractor of the implemented stage is the Ostrava construction company HSF System.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at a gala evening in Prague's Karlín Forum, the results were announced and awards were presented to the best projects of the Czech real estate market for the past year. The winners of the 24th edition of the "Best of Realty" competition were decided by a nine-member expert jury headed by Tomáš Drtina, vice president of the Association for the Development of the Real Estate Market (ARTN). Out of the five dozen nominees, this year's awards went to projects across the entire Czech Republic. The traditional glass trophy traveled to, for example, České Budějovice, Hradec Králové, Kojetín, Lipno nad Vltavou, Opočn, Ostrava, Prague or Pilsen.
The Prague office real estate market reached several records in the first nine months of 2022. It marked year-on-year records in the growth of new office space, record demand from tenants, and even much more office space was leased this year than a year earlier, according to JLL's regular quarterly analysis.
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