Around 77,000 square meters of offices were traded in Bucharest in the second quarter of this year, with net demand posting a strong recovery, with a 62% share of traded volumes, the biggest quarterly weight since Q1/2022, in line with data provided by real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
Deliveries of new retail spaces in Romania in the first half of 2024 totaled 87,400 square meters, significantly up from 30,000 square meters completed in the similar period of 2023, an evolution fueled particularly by the development activity of the second quarter, in line with data provided by real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
Companies in the first half of this year leased industrial and logistic spaces with a total area of 410,500 square meters, down 25% from the year-earlier period. In terms of new demand, not including renegotiation contracts, this cumulated 52% of the volume of contracted spaces, namely 213,000 square meters, double the area delivered in the analyzed period, in line with data provided by real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
Real estate consulting company Cushman & Wakefield Echinox has appointed Cristina Lupascu, a specialist with more than 20 years of experience in media and real estate, to the position of Head of Marketing.
Real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield Echinox ended 2023 with EUR12 million revenues, up 15% from 2022, with growth supported both by business lines providing brokerage services, and professional services.
Real estate developers in 2023 completed office space projects totaling 83,000 square meters in Romania’s main regional cities, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi and Brasov and the modern stock crossed the threshold of 1 million square meters in these cities, accounting for around 30% of Bucharest stock, in line with data provided by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
Real estate consulting company Cushman & Wakefield Echinox strengthens its office agency by recruiting Anamaria Creţu, a specialist with 18 years of multinational corporate experience.
Approximately 500,000 square meters of office spaces are unoccupied in capital city Bucharest, reflecting a vacancy rate of 15.2%, and the highest availability is reported in the Pipera North, Center-West and Floreasca – Barbu Vacarescu submarkets, as per data from real estate consulting firm Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
The investors already active on the local real estate market are interested to consolidate their positions, but one can notice the absence of investors from a specific part of the world, says Mihnea Serbanescu, general manager of real estate consultant Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
Major retail networks in 2021 registered overall turnover almost 20% higher than in 2019, a pre-pandemic year, 60% above the consumption growth rate of the past two years (12.5%) and above the overall inflation of 2020-2021, of 7.8%, reveals Romania Retail Snapshot survey carried out by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.