According to Savills, total modern office space in Prague increased slightly in Q2 2021 to 3.73 million sqm. Although subdued and still challenged by uncertainty, Q2 2021 saw a recovery in new supply as 49,500 sqm was delivered to the market across four new projects. Even though a decline of 57% is still visible in y-o-y comparison, new office supply for the second quarter is 10% above the pre-pandemic quarterly average.
After several months of waiting, there is again interest in commercial real estate. Investors in the Czech Republic poured 678 million euros (17.5 billion crowns) into them during the first half of the year, ie a fifth more than in the same period last year. The market is spinning, albeit gradually.
Due to the pandemic, the term Open House Festival was postponed to summer. Dozens of inaccessible buildings open to the general public on the weekend of August 7 and 8, 2021. The festival week starts on Monday, August 2, to offer those interested in architecture a number of interesting accompanying events.
The Polish company Business Link, which deals with the rental of jobs in shared premises, has sold its Holešovice office building to Scott.Weber and is thus ending up in the Czech Republic. The price of the transaction was not disclosed by either party. Hospodářské noviny informed about it.
The activity of real estate investors fell to the lowest values since 2013 in the first quarter of this year. The owners changed their commercial (and residential) buildings for EUR 310 million. Rather than the effects of covid measures, the result was affected by the lack of quality real estate to buy.
Explosion of teleworking, advent of flex-office, new organization of spaces: the place of the office in the post-Covid-19 economy is clearly being called into question.
Alza.cz used a year-long work from home to complete the reconstruction of part of its headquarters in Prague's Holešovice. Its employees now have a large café for meeting colleagues, a greenspace full of live plants with shared jobs and 42 meeting rooms on an area of over 10,000 m2. One of them is in a restored van Saviem from 1961.
Petr Narwa, Head of Transaction & Consulting Services at Prochazka & Partners, who has long been involved in commercial real estate and investment services, answered the interview. What does Petr say about the current situation in the market, where tenants are currently trying to save as much as possible and where the pandemic has disrupted the income of real estate investors?
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