Real Estate

Construction

Construction sector output down 2.9% yr/yr in January

Output volume of Hungary’s construction sector in January was down 2.9% in volume terms from a year earlier according to...

Sustainability

GE Real Estate targets development, Berlin, after prices jumped

General Electric Co.'s real estate unit, one of the world's biggest property investors, this year plans to focus more on...

Sustainability

London luxury-home prices rise by most in 28 years

Luxury-home prices in London, the world's most expensive city, rose at an annual rate of 31% in February, the fastest...

Sustainability

Romanian homebuilding rises 19% in quarter before EU entry

Romanian housing construction rose an annual 19% in the fourth quarter as developers increased investment before the country joined the...

Sustainability

Globe Trade to invest €42 mln in real estate in Croatia

Globe Trade Centre SA, Poland's largest property developer by market value, will invest €42 mln ($55 mln) in office and...

Sustainability

Home building permits down 12.9% in 2006

Hungary's building market continued to show signs of a slowdown in 2006, with the number of new home building permits...

Sustainability

Home building permits down 12.9% in 2006

The number of completed homes in the capital fell 33%, according to the new KSH report today....

Sustainability

Russian real estate draws $4.5 bln

Investment in Russian real estate grew by more than 35-fold in the past five years and will continue to expand,...

Sustainability

Worldwide office rents rose 12% in 2006

Office rents rose an average 12% around the world last year, driven by worldwide economic expansion, with Mumbai increasing enough...

Sustainability

Property boom hits Poland as European investors go east

Poland has jumped to the top of the European house price growth league table after property values there soared 33%...

Sustainability

Real estate developers may shun London as labor costs increase

London real estate development may slow as construction for the 2012 Olympics and a new terminal at Heathrow Airport drive...

Sustainability

The largest sale and leaseback transaction of 2006

Dawnay Day Group has purchased 22 Interfruct cash-and-carry stores from the Hungarian property developer, SCD Group, for €82.5 million, representing...

Office Market

Office space market expands fastest in five years in 2006

Property investors completed 182,000 square meter of A-category office space in Budapest in 2006, the most since 2000, according to...

Sustainability

Vacancy rate on Budapest office market increases to 12.8% in 2006

Vacancy on Budapest's top-category office space market increase 1.2 percentage points to 12.8% in 2006, a survey by the Budapest...

Logistics

GKI-Wallis consumer-business confidence index reaches year low in December

GKI-Wallis's combined consumer-business confidence index slipped further to 21 in December, reaching its lowest point of the year, according to...

Office Market

Budapest Office Vacancy Rises to 13.1% as Leasing Demand Falls Year-on-Year

Budapest’s office vacancy rate rose to 13.1% in the third quarter of 2026, while total leasing demand fell 9% year-on-year,...

Industrial

PSS Expands Hungarian Capacity Serving BMW, Mercedes and Others

Premium Sound Solutions is expanding its Hungarian manufacturing footprint with a new purpose-built plant at LogStar Park Fehérvár in Szabadbattyán...

Sustainability

Enthusiastic Visionary Optimistic About Sustainable Future

Nándor Kovács jokingly describes himself as a “revolutionary” when it comes to real estate sustainability. Spend just a little time...

Construction

Civil Engineering Surge Masks Decline in Building Construction

Civil engineering output more than doubled in Hungary in August, while building construction declined and the volume of new contracts...

Residential

Hungary’s Housing Costs Drive Buyers Toward Garden Plots and Former Wine Cellars

Rising house prices and living costs are pushing more buyers toward properties on Hungary’s outlying garden plots and vineyard land,...

Residential

Budapest Castle District Voters Back Short-Term Rental Ban

Nearly 59% of participants in an online vote in Budapest’s District I supported a complete ban on short-term rentals, Castle...

Real Estate

Erste Real Estate Investment Fund Buys H2Offices

Skanska has agreed to sell the second phase of its H2Offices complex to Erste Open-Ended Real Estate Investment Fund, represented...

Sustainability

Westend Shopping Center Wins Green Investment of the Year Award

One of the leading Budapest malls, Westend Shopping Center, operated by Gránit Pólus Group, has won the “Green Investment of...

Real Estate

Investors Becoming More Selective as Markets Rebound

Commercial real estate investment across the CEE-6 markets reached EUR 5.8 billion for H1 2026 compared with EUR 5.4 bln...

Construction

Government Gives Green Light to M49 Extension to Romanian Border

The government will proceed with the second phase of the M49 expressway, extending the road to the Romanian border, Transportation...

Sustainability

ESG Elements Central to Investment and Financing

Analysts say a sustainable recovery in the investment markets is underway, although investors are more selective in how they allocate...

Sustainability

Accreditation Systems Face More Complex Demands

Developers and asset owners in the region see a growing need for higher-level third-party sustainability accreditations such as BREEAM, LEED,...

Sustainability

The Business Case for Building Less, and Managing Better

Tibor Karsai, managing director of Rustler Kft., explains how coordinated design, investment and property operations can make circular strategies commercially...

Sustainability

Taking Discipline, Perseverance, and Goal-setting from the Pool to the Workplace

In his sporting life, Valter Kalaus was an Olympic swimmer at 18 and, now 56, competes regularly in Masters events....