flydubai, the UAE-based airline, opens an office in Bucharest in the Eminescu Offices building through a transaction brokered by the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company.
Developers finalized the construction of 83,000 sq. m of new office projects in the major regional cities (Cluj – Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi and Brasov) in 2023, as the modern office stock exceeded the 1 million sq. m threshold, representing around 30% of the corresponding total in Bucharest. Iasi is the only city which benefited from the delivery of office projects throughout 2023, as it overtook Timisoara and thus became the second – largest regional hub outside Bucharest, after Cluj-Napoca, according to the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox Office Market Regional Cities report.
The Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consulting company has been appointed to manage the Expo Business Park office project, one of the most representative projects in the Expozitiei area of Bucharest, starting from January 2024.
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.
116,000 sq. m of office spaces were leased in Bucharest in Q4 2023, thus bringing the total 2023 transactional volume to over 463,000 sq. m, an all – time annual take-up record, according to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company. The volume in question increased by 43% y-o-y, with a 19% growth also being recorded when compared with the previous benchmark of 390,000 sq. m set in 2019.
Securitas, a global leader in security services, relocated its offices in Romania to @Expo office complex developed by Atenor in the Expozitiei area of Bucharest, in a transaction brokered by the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company.
Macroeconomic uncertainty, consumption contraction, interest rates and also inflation are the main factors which may impact the Romanian real estate market, according to the real estate investors and developers who responded to the second edition of the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox “Real Estate Investors Sentiment Barometer”.
The number of sold income – generating real estate properties (office, retail, industrial & logistics spaces and hotels) during the first half of 2023 increased by 30% when compared with the same period of last year, but the average price per property decreased from €24 million to €11 million. Therefore, the transactional volume has seen an y-o-y decline of 43%, to a level of €181 million, according to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company.
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