Real estate investment transactions amounting to more than €600 million are currently in advanced stages of negotiation, as the volume registered throughout 2023 could be matched in the first half of this year, according to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company. Ongoing negotiations target office buildings (30% of the value above), retail projects (30%) and logistics parks (40%), with around half of the assets being located in Bucharest.
Property refinancing will be key to the evolution of the real estate investment market in 2024, and ESG will be the differentiator between office buildings in the competition for tenants, according to an analysis by real estate consultancy company Fortim Trusted Advisors, member of the BNP Paribas Real Estate Alliance. In terms of type of investors, most will be local or from the CEE region.
The largest modern office market was in Bucharest, where companies leased 75% of the total office space traded in the first quarter of the year, according to a study by Fortim Trusted Advisors, a member of the BNP Paribas Real Estate Alliance. The rest of the office transactions were registered in Timișoara, Iași and Cluj Napoca.
The strategies of companies to return to the office, amid increased inflation and the advantage of the large number of workplace facilities, lifted the office space rental market in 2022, registering a growth of 5% compared to 2021 and 20 % compared to 2020.
In total, in Bucharest, 332,922 sqm were traded, new office space rentals and renegotiations. The demand for new office space increased by 13% in 2022 compared to 2021, according to the analysis by Fortim Trusted Advisors, a member of the Paribas Real Estate BNP Alliance.
The office market is going through a period of stagnation, recording demand values similar to those of 2021. Deliveries of office space have slowed down and will remain at a low level in 2023, according to JLL.
There has only been one office delivery in Q2 2022 in Bucharest, namely the second building (25,000 sq. m GLA) of the AFI Tech Park project located in the Center – West submarket, with the total office stock in Bucharest reaching 3.3 million sq. m. This delivery pushed forward the Center-West area to first place in the top Bucharest office hubs, the stock of 579,600 sq.m overtaking Floreasca – Barbu Vacarescu area, which sums up 569,700 sq.m, according to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company.
The first quarter of 2022 saw a delivery of a bit over 70,000 square meters in new modern office spaces in Bucharest, taking the overall stock closer to 3.3 million square meters.
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