Slovakia

JLL Bratislava to announce that Lukáš Králik, Senior Consultant at the Office Agency team, became the newest member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the field of Commercial Real Estate.

Jozef Recska joined Cushman & Wakefield as Head of Asset Services, Slovakia; he leads a team of Property Management professionals. Part of the team is shopping centre Novum team located in Presov. Bigger part of the Asset Services team is located in Bratislava.

Immofinanz has purchased 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 first building in Garbe Green Park Piešťany is fully leased. Construction of the second unit has started.

YIT has sold its 50 % share of the Pradiareň 1900, a project company owning an office property in Bratislava to a newly established sub-fund of RSJ Investments. RSJ Investments is a Czech real estate investor and a joint venture partner of YIT Slovakia in several projects via separate fund. Debt-free transaction price is appr...

Trammell Crow Company has appointed Petr Kovařík as Country Head of Logistics for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He will be responsible for driving growth across the Czech Republic and strategy development, as well as the sourcing, acquisition, and financing of large-scale logistics projects in the region. Petr will be base...

VGP has secured UPS Healthcare as a new tenant at VGP Park Giessen - Am Alten Flughafen in Giessen. Furthermore, the developer will expand its logistics park VGP Park Bratislava.

Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH keeps expanding across Europe, and increased its assets under management by 36 percent to €9.5 billion (2021: €7.01 billion). The sum total includes notarised property transactions in a combined value of c. 1.2 billion euros. Real estate worth another 2.7 billion euros is in the property deve...

Allianz Real Estate, acting on behalf of several Allianz group companies, and VGP have agreed to form a new 50/50 joint venture. The vehicle, the fourth such venture between Allianz Real Estate and VGP since 2016, will develop a portfolio of prime logistics assets in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

Invesco Real Estate has sold the well-established Mercure Bratislava Centrum Hotel to CPI Property Group.

Union Investment and Garbe Industrial Real Estate acquired the first logistics property for their “UII Garbe Logistik Fonds” investment fund. Seller is the Karimpol Group. It was agreed not to disclose the financial details of the transaction.

Garbe Research recently investigated the changes in prime rents for logistics real estate in 30 European countries. In a total of 16 national markets, absolute logistics rents increased between the first half-year of 2020 and the first half-year of 2021. The fastest growth in prime rents per square metre was registered in Slo...

Colliers’ current leader of the CEE region (excluding Poland) Luke Dawson, Managing Director & Head of Capital Markets in CEE, is promoted to Managing Director, EMEA Cross-Border Capital Markets, as the business makes a major investment into its regional cross-border Capital Markets team in EMEA. Dawson will be based in Londo...

Dream Industrial REIT, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Dream Industrial Europe Advisors Cooperative UA, announced the acquisition of shares of a corporation that owns a portfolio of 31 institutional quality logistics properties from Clarion Partners Europe.

Supported by sustained portfolio growth in 2020 and the completion of profitable property sales and successful project pre-letting in the first quarter of 2021, CA Immo is starting 2021 with an extremely positive first quarterly result. All key financial figures were increased compared to the previous year, and the value of p...

The Dutch industrial developer and manager acquired a property near Žilina to develop CTPark Žilina Airport with up to 145,000 m² of logistics and industrial space. With 98% tenant occupancy and positive socio-economic tailwinds, the company aims to double its portfolio by 2023 and surpass 1 million m² of total lettable space...

Mountfield, a retailer of garden machinery, swimming pools and home and garden equipment, has chosen the Shopping Palace centre as the site of its new store in Slovakia. Managing the shopping centre since 2013, the MVGM team has created a compact retail space for Mountfield, which covers 1,500 sqm and also includes a warehous...

The company exits the non-core market by selling two office assets in Bratislava. In future, the investment strategy focuses on office buildings in Germany, Austria and core CEE capitals.