JLL, a leading consulting company that specializes in delivering comprehensive services to the real estate market, carries out a survey on this year’s investment transactions in the commercial real estate sector in Poland. According to the data and the conducted analysis, the value of transactions conducted within the last three quarters is comparable to the value achieved in the whole year 2017.
The total transaction value in Poland exceeded 5 billion euro at the beginning of October this year. The commercial sector is the leader with purchase/sales transactions of the value amounting to 2.1 billion euro. Over 2 billion euro were invested in the office sector, over 800 million euro were invested in warehouse buildings and almost 70 million euro – in hotels. In our opinion, the total value of purchase/sales contracts in all sectors of the commercial real estate market will amount to ca. 6 billion euro in 2018, which is the highest amount in the history of the Polish investment market – sums up Agata Sekula, Head of Capital Market Department, Commercial Properties, Central & Eastern Europe, JLL.
The largest transaction in the commercial real estate industry in 2018 is sales of the portfolio of 28 commercial properties by ARES/AXA/Apollo Rida to Chariot Top Group for ca. 1 billion euro. In the office real estate industry, HB Reavis sold Gdański Business Center II to EPF for 200 million euro. The largest warehouse investment in 2018 is purchase of nine logistic parks by Redefine/Griffin from Panattoni Europe.