The real estate investment volume in Central and Eastern Europe reached nearly €13bn in 2017, according to the latest C&W report. All CEE countries grew at a similar rate and maintained their share of the overall regional volume, the data shows. Despite political risk perceptions, Poland’s volume grew by 9 percent y-o-y from €4.6bn to €5bn, which was the highest result recorded in the last 10 years. In 2017, commercial real estate investment activity in the CEE region reached €3.3bn in the Czech Republic, €1.8bn in Hungary, €1bn in Romania, €876m in Bulgaria and €470m in Slovakia. The lowest yields were in the Czech Republic, standing at 4.25 percent for retail assets, 4.6 percent for office and 5.75 percent for industrial.
