Almost a third of the office market in Prague is twenty or more years old. This presents a problem for many tenants, not least because they cannot emphasize sustainability in these buildings and thus meet their ESG goals. Building owners are offered a solution in the form of complex renovations, but according to experts from Colliers, this is hindered by the low vacancy rate on the Prague office market, which offers few alternative spaces. Nevertheless, it turns out that the reconstruction of old buildings can be less demanding than the construction of new ones. A well-planned and well-executed strategic renovation can bring long-term benefits to landlords, including higher rents.
Scott.Weber Workspace continues to expand and consolidate its position as a leader in the flexible workspace and coworking market. This fall, it will expand its premises at the existing Churchill location near the Prague Central Station, while using the premises of Deloitte, and at the beginning of 2025 at the DOCK location in Prague 8. Next year, it will also open new serviced offices and coworking in the premium new PernerKa building in Prague's Karlín and in the intelligent ORGANICA building in Ostrava, then in 2027 in the exclusive location of Dornych near Brno's main railway station. Scott.Weber Workspace will thus already operate 17 centers in which it combines a first-class working environment with a wide range of services inspired by the standards of top hotels, thereby providing a comprehensive positive experience for office space users.
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.
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