British software services company Endava has renewed its lease for a further five years at the United Business Center building, part of the Iulius Mall Cluj development. The deal, brokered by real estate consultancy Colliers, covers 4,300 square meters of office space and will allow the company to strengthen its local team and continue its expansion in Cluj-Napoca
Trading activity in the office market slowed in the third quarter of this year, mirroring trends from 2021-2022. Total demand for modern leased office space in Bucharest dropped by 25% to 236,000 square meters compared to the same period in 2023. New lease demand reached 82,000 square meters, reflecting an 11% decrease year-on-year, according to Colliers data.
Leasing activity in the Bucharest office market in the first half of 2024 saw new demand rise by 7% year-on-year, reaching 64,000 square meters, while total demand slightly decreased to 160,000 square meters, according to Colliers’ report on real estate market developments for the first half of the year.
German giant Infineon Technologies, a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, has appointed Colliers as the project manager for its new Romanian headquarters, which will be built in the Dimitrie Pompeiu area of Bucharest by the leading real estate investor and developer One United Properties.
The first half of 2024 ended with real estate transactions totaling 419 million euros in Romania, which represents a two and a half times increase compared to the volume of the same period last year, according to the Colliers report on the evolution of the real estate market in the first semester of this year. The outlook remains favorable, and with a significant volume of ongoing transactions, including some recent ones where owners want quick completion, reaching the €1 billion mark in 2024 seems an achievable goal, Colliers consultants say.
Large infrastructure investments, significant salary growth above inflation, a stable external economic context, and central banks’ victory in combating inflation are helping the Romanian real estate market maintain a favorable outlook. However, results are generally mixed, according to Colliers Romania experts in their market report for the first half of the year, set to be released at the end of the month.
The hybrid working system, which combines remote work with in-office presence for the entire team, has remained in practice in many companies even after the end of the pandemic, but the number of employees returning to the office is growing, note consultants from the Asset Services department of Colliers Romania, which manages about 640,000 square meters of real estate, nearly 600,000 square meters of which are offices.
The first quarter of 2024 ended with real estate investments in Romania totalling 202 million euros, up 69 percent compared to the first three months of 2023, with transactions in the retail segment accounting for around two-thirds of the volume, according to a Colliers report. Compared to the other five major economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Romania was the best performer in a context where market activity in the region was soft and transaction volumes reached one of the lowest levels in a decade.
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