The volume of investment in commercial real estate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 2022 was approximately 10.7 billion euros. Although this is a year-on-year decrease of only 3.3%, compared to the situation before the pandemic, it is a reduction of more than 20%. At the same time, domestic capital was the most active with a 38% share of total transaction volumes. In the first half of 2023, commercial real estate markets will remain subdued due to significantly higher financing costs and the subsequent price correction currently taking place in both CEE and many other regions. Colliers experts estimate that in 2023 investment volumes in CEE could reach between 7.0 and 10.0 billion euros. This follows from a study by Colliers, a leader in the provision of diversified professional services in the field of commercial real estate and investment management.
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.
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).
As part of its value-creating growth strategy with a focus on high-return properties, Immofinanz is acquiring 53 retail properties in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary from its majority shareholder CPI Property Group (CPIPG). The acquired portfolio has roughly 217,000 sqm of rentable space and is fully let with an occupancy rate of 99%. The purchase price totals €324.2 million. The purchase contract was signed today, together with the closing for 36 retail properties in the Czech Republic and Poland which have 108,000 sqm of rentable space. The purchase price of €191 million for those properties was financed from existing funds. The closing for the remaining 17 properties in Hungary and Slovakia is expected to take place by the end of this year.
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.
An office building today is not just a reinforced concrete skeleton filled with glass panels. The building itself and its equipment enable the use of functions unsuspected at first glance, which provide a new dimension of comfort to its users. They allow you to adjust the temperature or the color of the light in the room, rebuild your office according to your wishes or find a colleague without running around the office.
What so far seems more like a phrase will change the real estate market in the coming years. The principles of socially responsible and sustainable investment, referred to by the acronym ESG, are already intervening in real estate investments and commercial real estate rentals. A wave of renovations awaits the owners of buildings built over the past 15 years. Older office buildings or those hurried by developers with a hot needle will often go to the ground.
UBM Development Czechia, which completed and approved the Astrid Offices office building in Prague's Holešovice in May, sold it to the PORTIVA investment group. Both parties have decided not to disclose the amount of the transaction. The property, which has 4,300 m2 of office space and 440 m2 of retail space on the ground floor, is now fully leased. Since December, it has also become the headquarters of UBM Development Czechia, which has moved here from its offices in Liben.
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