January 21 (SeeNews) - The volume of real estate investments in Romania in 2019 rose by an annual 7%, reaching 1.06 billion euro ($1.17 billion), real estate consulting CBRE Romania said on Tuesday.
This is the market's highest value in the last five years, CBRE Romania said in a press release.
"2019 was the year of regional cities for transactions with office buildings, as Cluj-Napoca attracted investments of almost 200 million euro, accounting for 20% of the total volume traded at the country level," CBRE Romania Head of Investment Properties Gijs Klomp said.
"However, Bucharest remained the leader, with 64% of the total transactions. Office buildings were the main traded products, accounting for almost 75% of the total transactions at national level," he added.
Regarding the buyers' profile, Israeli investors occupied accounted for 36% of last year's real estate transactions in terms of volume, followed by Romanian investors with a 26% share and South African funds with 17%.
"Romania is an increasingly interesting destination for new investors and most likely 2020 will bring, just like 2019, new names on the local market. There are several companies that want to expand their portfolio in Romania, which are particularly pursuing office buildings and industrial spaces acquisitions," Klomp added.
Top 10 real-estate transactions in 2019:
City |
Property |
Transaction value (mln euro) |
Buyer |
Seller |
Bucharest, Timisoara |
NEPI - office portfolio |
308 |
AFI Europe |
NEPI Rockcastle |
Cluj-Napoca |
The Office |
129 |
Dedeman |
NEPI Rockcastle |
Bucharest |
Retail parks portfolio |
113 |
MAS Real Estate |
Prime Kapital |
Bucharest |
America House |
77 |
Morgan Stanley |
AEW |
Bucharest |
Oregon Park III |
60 |
Lion's Head Investment |
Portland Trust |
Targu-Mures |
Promenada Mall |
43 |
Indotek |
AEW |
Bucharest |
A1 Bucharest Park |
40 |
CTP Invest |
Vabeld |
Cluj-Napoca |
Liberty Technology Park |
35 |
White Star |
Fribourg Development |
Cluj-Napoca |
Hexagon Portfolio |
30 |
Ideal Project Services |
Hexagon |
Bucharest |
Day Tower |
31 |
Corporate Finance House |
Day Group |
Commercial real estate investment and services company CBRE Group is headquartered in Los Angeles and employs over 90,000. In Romania, CBRE offers a wide range of integrated services, including transactions, coordination and project management, design and build services, valuation, property rental, strategic consulting, property sales as well as mortgage and development services.
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