“The decrease is most prominent in Hungary where the vacancy rate decreased by two percentage points to the current 13.7% within six months. If Hungary keeps this pace up, it could reach a healthy vacancy rate of about 10% around the turn of the year,” says Ferdinand Hlobil, Head of Cushman & Wakefield’s CE Industrial Team. 

Both the development and take-up of industrial parks in Central Europe, including Hungary, is continuing and slightly accelerating in comparison to last year, Cushman & Wakefield added.

The appetite for investing in commercial properties is also increasing, with a shortage on the supply side making buyers willing to pay more, Cushman & Wakefield said in its Central European Industrial Market Report which covers Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. According to Cushman & Wakefield this trend is most obvious for logistic and production facilities.