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.
This year, Passerinvest Group, a.s. (hereinafter referred to as Passerinvest), which has long been developing the locality in the vicinity of the Roztyly metro station, contributed a generous amount of CZK 1 million to the support of cultural/social events of the Prague 11 city district. The events are open to the general public and their programme is always very diverse, from concerts of various genres and exhibitions to workshops and programmes for children.
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.
The Penta Group concluded one of the largest office contracts in the Czech Republic in recent months. The financial institution Fio banka will move its headquarters to the emerging Masaryčka administrative complex in the center of Prague.
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).
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