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.
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.
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.
Developer Ameside a.s. from the Prague group Amadeus Real received a planning permission for the project of a new urban district in the center of Pilsen. He wants to build it for roughly eight billion crowns by 2027 on the site of the House of Culture, which was demolished ten years ago. The company is already working on a project to issue a building permit, which will take several months. He wants to submit the application next year, and construction is to start in 2024. Václav Klán Jr., a member of the board of directors of Amadeus Real Estate, told ČTK today. The territorial decision is not final yet.
A total of 22,700 square meters of new office space was completed in the capital city of Prague during the second quarter of this year. The vast majority of them, 21,500 square meters, are located in the DOCK in Five administrative building, which was built by the Crestyl group in Prague 8 as part of the DOCK complex. This year, she also started the construction of the first two administrative buildings in the HAGIBOR project, in which 95,000 square meters of offices will be gradually built along Vinohradská trýda in Prague 10 in a total of six buildings.
The real estate company CPI Property Group (CPIPG) of billionaire Radovan Vítek is selling 53 retail properties in the Central and Eastern European region to the Austrian real estate company Immofinanz, of which he is the majority owner. The price is 324.2 million euros (almost eight billion crowns).
Among the companies offering innovative solutions for the real estate sector, four Czech companies appeared in this year's global KPMG research. In previous years, only one represented the Czechia. This year, the research counted almost 800 innovations, the largest number of which were presented by companies from the Netherlands. Overall, it innovates the most in the areas of digitization, connectivity and sustainability.
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