The real estate market expects a strong investment impulse this year. Interest on savings accounts is falling and many Czechs are planning to move their money elsewhere. At the same time, the domestic real estate market is stable and in many ways more efficient than in other countries. The funds will use the newly raised money for acquisitions.
The modern AFI Europe office complex with the largest green facade in Central Europe will soon welcome another prestigious tenant. The law firm Wolf Theiss, which until now was also based in Karlín, but near Florence, will move its team here. The European media and entertainment company Sky CP Limited will open a development center in Prague for the Sky Showtime streaming video service with millions of viewers worldwide. It plans to hire dozens of developers specializing in so-called front-end programming and the JavaScript language to the premises in Karlín.
V polovině června začala výstavba další části obrovského projektu Smíchov City, který staví developerská společnost Sekyra Group. Druhá fáze, nazvaná Smíchov City Jih, bude v mnoha ohledech výjimečná. Třeba výší investice, rozsahem výstavby, ale i tím, že v ní vznikne nové sídlo České spořitelny.
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.
From July 1, 2024, the new Building Act also applies to ordinary buildings. In the long term, it will speed up and simplify construction management. It waives unnecessary technical requirements, which will make housing construction cheaper. The building permit is obtained by the builder in one place online in the builder's portal. Along with the new construction law, the related implementing regulations, including the modern decree on construction requirements, also came into force. The law also provides for a transitional period until the end of June 2027. Until then, it will be possible to use the documentation that the builder developed before the new building law came into effect.
Czech developer FINEP and international investment and development group AFI Europe have announced two signed transactions that will add more than 800 apartments in two different locations to the Prague rental housing market over the next three years. FINEP will newly build two apartment buildings with more than 300 apartments for AFI Europe in the Nová Elektra project in Prague 9 - Hloubětín. In addition, AFI Europe is buying from FINEP the project "V Korytech" in Prague 10 – Strašnice where AFI Europe intend to develop residential project having more than 500 apartments. Moreover, the two companies expect to cooperate on rental housing in other locations soon.
UBM Development AG is aiming to fulfill its strategic goal of becoming the leading developer of wooden construction projects in Europe. In 2024, it already has over 300,000 m² of wooden buildings in preparation. Timber Pioneer, the first wooden office building with a wood-hybrid structure in the Frankfurt am Main business district, is now complete and its anchor tenant is Universal Investment. UBM recently started construction on the Timber Factory district in Munich, the Timber Peak high-rise in Mainz and the LeopoldQuartier Office complex in Vienna. The company has a number of other wooden buildings in preparation, such as the Timber Works and Timber Living projects in Munich or Timber Port in Düsseldorf. The vision of the parent company is also followed by the Czech branch of UBM Development Czechia, which this summer will complete the Timber Praha project, the first multi-storey residential wooden building in the history of the Czech metropolis.
In three years, the surroundings of Smíchovský nádraží in Prague will change beyond recognition. Today, there is a huge construction site where construction is taking place in parallel under the direction of private and public investors. Their representatives officially presented the next stage of the Smíchov City project on Wednesday.
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