Construction activity is beginning to move to the desolate southern part of Prague's Smíchov. Developer Sekyra Group is launching the second stage of its extensive project for the new Smíchov City district here. Within a few years, three administrative buildings should be built here, including the new headquarters of Česká spořitelna and a hotel. The private project for a total of 35 billion crowns will be followed up by the city and the Railway Administration, which are working here to modernize the railway and build a new transport terminal. Public investments will reach another fifteen billion crowns.
The office market is slowly recovering from a deep depression. Managers are looking to more modern workplaces not only to meet future sustainability requirements, but also to entice employees from their homes back into the workplace. Škoda Auto recently moved to new offices, large media houses are changing their addresses, and Česká spořitelna, for example, is already looking at a modern building in Smíchov. Some authorities and public institutions are also looking for a new seat. However, many companies prefer the reconstruction of existing buildings.
Despite the current weakening of the investment activity in the Central and Eastern European region (CEE) volumes of investment in commercial real estate in the Czech Republic in the first quarter of 2024 recorded a year -on -year increase of 36 %. In total, in this period, capital was invested in the volume of EUR 545 million, dominated mainly by local investors. The yields did not notice any significant movement compared to the previous quarter. According to Colliers' estimates, a leading provider of diversified professional services in the field of commercial real estate and investment administration, the total volume of transactions in 2024 should reach EUR 1.4 billion. This would mean the end of the three -year decline period and the hope that the Czech real estate investment market is reflected from the bottom.
With the ceremonial knocking of the foundation stone, Passerinvest Group symbolically started the construction of the multi-functional building Hila in Brumlovka in Prague 4. Upon its completion in the spring of 2027, the building will provide a combination of approximately 20,500 m² of offices for rent (2nd to 8th floors), 71 rental housing units (9th to 15th floors) and on the ground floor a commercial area of 2,000 m². All this within one object. The building will also offer spacious terraces for office users and loggias with beautiful views for residents. The Hila building will fully comply with the company's ESG strategy and will thus be equipped with modern technologies, of which, for example, the cooling and heating system with radiant ceilings, which represents the most modern concept of indoor climate control, is worth noting. Thanks to a well-thought-out combination with planned heat pumps, it will be a highly efficient and operationally economical solution. The renowned studio Aulík Fišer architekti is behind the architectural rendering of the project, the construction contractor is the company Gemo. The owner and investor of the building is the Passerinvest Group.
Billionaire Radim Passer is changing the face of another Prague location. After Brumlovka, which he has been continuously developing for over a quarter of a century, his development company Passerinvest completed its initial project in nearby Roztyly – the Roztyly Plaza administrative building.
A new survey by Colliers has shown that employees between the ages of 44 and 59 are under the most pressure in the workplace. Roughly half of them (44%) state that they cannot handle their agenda during standard working hours, i.e. within 40 hours a week. The results of the survey also show that more than half of all respondents would vote for a shortened working week. The young generation Z (people under 27) and the so-called Boomers (people 60+) gave this answer most often.
Regional cities in the Czech Republic are becoming an increasingly interesting alternative for investors looking for cheaper, yet high-quality office space outside of Prague. That's according to the latest survey by Colliers, a leading provider of diversified professional services in commercial real estate and investment management. According to him, net realized demand in Brno grew by 43% year-on-year, in Ostrava by 127%. At the same time, prices are kept at a level that is one third to one half lower than in Prague. Even more interest in regional cities could be aroused by a better offer of serviced offices, which are of particular interest to established companies on the market in connection with the development of hybrid work and the introduction of hub & spoke or flex & core models.
According to the current report of the real estate consulting company Cushman & Wakefield, the commercial real estate market in 2023 in the Central and Eastern European region saw a significant decrease in investment volume: year-on-year it was a 55% reduction to a total of 5.02 billion euros. The largest part of the capital went to the office sector, which also saw the most significant increase in income. Despite the complications, the market is showing resilience, especially in the logistics and residential sectors, which are the areas with the greatest potential for growth.
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