Colliers, a leading company providing diversified professional services in the field of commercial real estate and investment management, published a survey of the Prague office market for the 2nd quarter of 2022. According to it, the vacancy rate did not change and remained at the same value as in the previous quarter. On the contrary, rents or service fees continue to rise. The volume of net realized demand is nevertheless the highest since the end of 2019.
In the next 25 years, the Odien investment group plans to build a neighborhood with approximately 7,000 apartments for up to 11,000 people in the Avie area between Prague's Letňany and Čakovice. He estimates the construction costs at 70 billion crowns. Group CEO Michael Saran told reporters. The district is to be connected to the city center by a modernized railway and a new tram line. According to Saran, the company has already started decontamination of land after industrial production and is waiting for a change in the zoning plan. She would like to start construction in 2025.
Slovak developer Corwin has sold the Blumental office centre in Bratislava to Czech real estate fund ZFP realitní fond. With more than 21,000 sqm of lettable area, it is one of the largest Bratislava office transactions of 2022. The price of the acquisition has not been disclosed.
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), formerly Philips Lighting, a world leader in lighting, is expanding its portfolio with the most energy-efficient LED tubes to date. Thanks to its high efficiency, Philips MASTER LEDtube UE can help customers solve not only the global energy crisis, but also the growing pressure to reduce the carbon footprint and stricter EU regulations.
The current economy has to deal with a number of negative factors affecting not only our personal but also our working life. The Covid pandemic and its consequences, the difficult geopolitical circumstances caused by the war in Ukraine, the skyrocketing energy prices, steeply rising inflation – all of this has an effect on the office market as well. Today, their tenants are faced with the question of how big offices they will need in the era of the "new normal" - and also in what buildings in order to be able to pay the rent in the rented premises without problems (1). In the considerations of tenants, the price-quality ratio is increasingly coming to the fore. When applying this key criterion, it turns out that class "B" offices, although their share of the market for administrative space in Prague is significantly lower than class "A" offices, are definitely not Cinderella. On the contrary – for many tenants, they are now the ideal solution to their needs. The example of the successful Nagano Park administrative complex in Prague 3 can be used to show why "B" offices are and will be in vogue.
The metro station in Prague's Letňany is often given as a model of how transport infrastructure in the city should not be built. And anyone who has ever stepped out of those vestibules in the middle of the fields would probably agree with such voices.
There are 200 percent more flexible offices in Prague than five years ago. Scott.Weber Workspace, the largest operator of flexible and shared offices (so-called coworking) in the metropolis, recently opened premises in the Blox center in Dejvice. Flexible offices currently make up 2.7 percent of the 3.75 million square meters of office space in Prague, and further growth is expected. This follows from the analysis of the real estate consulting company JLL and information from Scott.Weber Workspace.
PlanRadar, one of the leading European platforms for digitization in the construction industry, which is already used in the Czech Republic by, for example, the construction companies BAK, Metrostav and Imos Brno, specialist in project management and technical supervision of buildings Unitrex Management or companies providing maintenance and property management such as Awigo or Trade Center Prague, launched a special tool focused on planning. It is designed to facilitate the construction of buildings and subsequently their maintenance and management. Above all, the novelty will facilitate the supervision of all tasks and help with meeting the set deadlines.
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