Preliminary real estate investment figures in the six CEE markets stood at €2.3bn in the first three months of 2017, up 41 percent y-o-y and a 45-percent jump from Q1 2015, according to Colliers International and CMS. Increased returns via lower yields are predicted for the office, retail and industrial sectors in Budapest, Bucharest and Bratislava this year. Prague’s office and industrial sectors are also expected to see a boost, as is Warsaw’s industrial and retail sectors and Sofia’s office and industrial sectors. “The growing maturity of the CEE region may help combat the specific risks affecting Western Europe, that of Brexit and its reverberations, which may unfold further in 2017. Brexit’s full consequences are not yet known and some might even end up as a positive for CEE,” said Mark Robinson, a senior CEE researcher at Colliers.
