For the first quarter, CBRE showed the two cities averaged out at €36,351 and €24,994, respectively.

Hungary’s rate checked in at about €960 per square meter, a figure just lower than Warsaw’s (€1,080) and marking a slight decline from marked stability at around €1,020 shown for the past several quarters.

CBRE Budapest Head of Retail Anita Csörgő commented that, “Due to the fact that consumption and retail turnovers are starting to increase slightly this year and the lack of new supply coming into the market, I truly believe that rents have bottomed out, especially in class B and off-A locations, and that we will be seeing increases starting from 2014.”