The development company AFI Europe is taking stock of the results for last year, in which it fully devoted itself to the implementation of its new corporate strategy focused exclusively on rental housing: It is currently building four buildings in Prague in three residential projects. AFIHOME Třebešín (formerly Tulipa Třebešín) is the furthest in the preparations, which was the first to achieve a rough construction. The house, which will offer a total of 61 housing units, should be completed this year. Another project is the multifunctional complex AFIHOME Karlín with a total of 170 apartments, which will complement the shops and services. He reached the glajcha at the turn of this year. The other two apartment houses are growing in parallel in the new multifunctional district of AFI City. The first of them already has a complete rough construction, the construction of the second building was started in November last year. In addition to rental housing, AFI Europe also approved and sold 80% of the luxury villa houses in Tulipa Třebešín, in which it also created a model apartment under the direction of designer Magdalena Hopkins. The company was also active in the field of commercial real estate and expanded its office portfolio with Avenir Business Park in Prague 5 - Nové Butovice. The company bought it for 66.5 million euros and is now almost completely occupied.
According to the latest Savills report, the last quarter of 2021 was the busiest quarter of commercial real estate investment in the Czech Republic. 30 transactions with a total volume of more than EUR 628 million were closed. This was the highest quarterly real estate investment since the first quarter of 2020, and an improvement of 23% over the fourth quarter of 2020.
The Austrian company Immofinanz sold the Prague Airport Business Center to the investment fund Jet Industrial Lease (JET) of the Brno billionaire Igor Fait. This is according to today's press release of the law firm bpv Braun Partners, which advised on the sale, and the press release of Jet Investment. The parties did not disclose the value of the transaction. Billionaire Radovan Vítek is interested in taking over Immofinanz.
An analysis by CBRE, a world leader in commercial real estate services, shows that despite the ongoing covidu-19 pandemic, new brands are still coming to the domestic retail market, in unprecedented numbers. There were 29 of them last year, which represents a year-on-year increase of 26%. This result is even significantly better compared to the ancestor year 2019. The main event last year was the Prague premiere of the Irish clothing and accessories store Primark on Wenceslas Square, and from the perspective of the High Street the opening of the Versace Italian luxury fashion boutique in Pařížská Street. With regard to the emerging trends, the opening of the so-called phygital store (from the English words physical and digital) of the partner companies eobuv.cz and Modivo in Smíchov, Prague, can also be considered a turning point. The new store, offering a wide range of products in the field of fashion, footwear and accessories, uniquely combines the advantages of the stone shop with the comfort of e-shops and is a harbinger of shopping in the near future.
UBM Development Czechia, which completed and approved the Astrid Offices office building in Prague's Holešovice in May, sold it to the PORTIVA investment group. Both parties have decided not to disclose the amount of the transaction. The property, which has 4,300 m2 of office space and 440 m2 of retail space on the ground floor, is now fully leased. Since December, it has also become the headquarters of UBM Development Czechia, which has moved here from its offices in Liben.
The long-awaited HolKa footbridge construction project will make it easier for pedestrians and cyclists to move between the two dynamically developing districts of Prague. At the same time, it activates the creation of follow-up projects of the capital and private investor CA Immo, which will contribute to the attractiveness of the Vltava embankment in the area of Rohan Island.
The real estate division of the PPF Group has experience with the international company Hines from London and Moscow. PPF Real Estate is newly buying the New City office complex from Warsaw, thanks to which the company is expanding its operations to Poland. The value of the transaction was not disclosed after the agreement of both parties.
A future consortium of predominantly domestic studios will determine the future shape of the area around the transport hub at Florence and Masaryk Railway Station. The winners of the urban design competition announced by investors Penta Real Estate and ČSAD Praha holding in cooperation with the capital are UNIT architects and studio A69 together with a London company with Slovak roots Marko and Placemakers. It specializes in urban regeneration and sustainable planning.
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