UBM Development Czechia has successfully completed and approved the Astrid Offices office building in Holešovice, Prague. Companies that have chosen it as their headquarters will operate here from July. This includes UBM employees who move here from offices in Liben. Astrid Offices now leases more than 50% of its space.
ČSAD Praha holding a.s. announces that the construction of the BASTION FLORENC commercial administrative center has recently started on its land. With its name, the building located in the very heart of the Prague crossroads refers to the foundations built above the former baroque fortifications of Bastion XXII. The beginning of the construction dates back to 1648, when the Prague fortifications began to be built and were completed in 1679.
Up to 700,000 m2 of new offices could be added to Prague by 2025. Currently, about a third of this volume is in the construction phase. However, due to the prevailing slowdown in demand and the growth of vacancy in both existing and new office space, many developers are adjusting their plans: they are postponing the start of construction and slowing down implementation. Others are considering the future use of projects from purely administrative to a mix of office, residential and retail space.
Building B in Prague’s BB Centrum has acquired another tenant. This March, ABInBev, the largest brewer in the world, owning brands such as Stella Artois, Leffe and Corona, headquartered its global shared service centre here on an area of more than 7400 m2. The owner and manager of the building is the Passerinvest concern.
The year 2020 closed stores, drove people out of offices and significantly changed conditions in the real estate market. While until last spring, commercial property owners could choose who to rent space to and set prices, now the situation has changed.
A total investment volume of €290 million was transacted in the Czech Republic during the first quarter of 2021, according to Savills latest research. Without the exceptional €1.3 billion Residomo portfolio sale transaction, the investment volume was only down by 8% y-o-y.
The developer AFI Europe, which has so far implemented three phases of the Classic 7 Business Park administrative center in the field of office real estate, AFI Karlín, AFI Vokovice and AFI City 1, has decided to take a major step in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and in protecting its tenants. It is newly installing a unique system of Global Plasma Solutions (hereinafter referred to as GPS) in the common areas of its office buildings, whose patented technology based on bipolar plasma ionization effectively eliminates bacteria and viruses in the interior of buildings, including elevators. For SARS-COV-2, tests have even shown 99.8% efficacy. The same system is already used abroad, for example, by the White House - the seat of American presidents in Washington, Harvard University or Google.
Last year, the demand for offices in virtually all European countries fell sharply. Compared to 2019, it decreased by 41% to 9 million m2. This was the lowest volume of realized demand since 2009. According to analysts of the international consulting company BNP Paribas Real Estate, there is already a recovery in this year's tenant activity, but the office market is not expected to recover until 2022. At that time, demand should reach 12.2 mil. m.
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