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Warsaw office supply crunch pushes vacancy to 8.5%

Warsaw's office vacancy rate fell to 8.5% in the first half of 2026 as a sharp slowdown in new development and a growing wave of office demolitions tightened supply.
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Pontegadea acquires Paris office complex for around €850m

Covivio earnings rise 7.3% as office leasing gains momentum

Colliers: vacancy in Germany’s top office markets hits highest level since 2007

LaSalle IM wins €450m European office mandate from German pension fund

Flight to quality drives office fit-out costs higher across African markets

Bank of America: AI could do to offices what e-commerce did to retail

Savills: European office completions to fall 23% in 2027 as pipeline shrinks

A sustainable office that’s also a proof of concept

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CEE Summit: repurposing assets a key decarbonising tool

JLL: Berlin office market posts strongest Q1 since 2022 with 43% leasing jump

Cushman & Wakefield: UK tops fit-out costs and delivery speed as Europe’s pricing gap widens

JLL: Madrid and Barcelona require €5.8bn to upgrade prime office stock

German residential sentiment weakens as office outlook improves in Q1

Redevco: €100bn of European offices require EPC upgrade by 2030

Walter Herz: supply crunch drives Polish office investment revival

Savills: Global prime office costs rise 5.1% in 2025 as London’s West End retains world lead

Knight Frank: offices return to favour as global investors plan $144bn CRE capital allocation

Alice in Wonderland and a Lego safari: bringing the fun to offices

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How IPUT is getting the measure of social value

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Capreon clinches €120m prime Dutch office acquisition

Savills: global real estate investment to top $1trn in 2026

Visa to move its European HQ to Canary Wharf in another coup for financial district

Savills: Rents push global prime office costs 0.8% higher in Q3

Royal London acquires prime office in London’s West End for £250m

German office vacancy hits 8.7% as take-up stays below average

Blackstone wins bidding war to buy €700m Paris office block

Berlin Hyp and Delancey back £241m refinancing of prime central London office project

Smartown Group sells historic Bucharest office building at 8.2% yield

Canary Wharf in demand as HSBC signs new office lease

European prime office yields compress as investors return to the market, says Savills

Aware Super and Delancey deploy £500m in ‘vote of confidence’ in London office sector

Norway’s KLP acquires Stockholm office asset from Barings in €132.2m deal

Green light for AXA IM Alts’ new City of London office tower

US CBDs struggle with weak demand and falling prices

Savills: ‘proximity premium’ for offices close to major stations

C&W: office leasing deals, new record for the City of London

Madrid and Paris offices: ‘most attractively priced’ markets

Owner-occupier forward buys City office block for £333m

Dublin: M&G wins US AI firm in record post-covid office letting

Skanska divests Romanian office building for €52m

Redevco debt fund kicks off with €56.8m City office loan

LPA: Central London offices outperforming global rivals

ABG plans €250m revamp of historic Frankfurt landmark

Landsec sells offices and pivots to resi to rebalance portfolio

£125m HSBC loan hastens Helical/TfL City development

Savills: Spanish office sector recovers, investments up 50%

Global office costs inch up but steepest rises in Dubai and LA

Daily commute the clincher as office-v-home battle hots up

Patrizia pays €55m for SAP HQ in Milan’s Porta Nuova district

Henderson and Stoke Park start revamp of Berlin’s Mosse

LBBW Immobilien redevelops listed central Frankfurt space

Invesco partners Simten to focus on London projects

Modernised CEE cities feeling benefit of “greener” office stock

CBRE setting up new Global Financial HQ in Manhattan

Valesco refinances Brussels office setting post-covid record

Skanska sells major Warsaw office building for €100m

Offices to lead 2025’s ‘period of recovery and growth’: C&W

Valesco pays €200m for stake in Moncler’s global HQ in Milan

C&W: 70% of European offices at risk of becoming obsolete

Alecta buys pair of Gothenburg office projects for €190m

Eastnine set to pay Ghelamco €280m for Warsaw office tower

Amundi-Koramco partnership refinances NL’s The Atrium

Helical realises £71.4m selling 50% share in City office block

L&G’s Managed Fund chalks up £370m in ’24 with Soho asset

Madrid leads European return to the office: Savills research

Cheyne and Apollo back Castleforge with £115m loan

Slower office fitout cost rises cut more slack for occupiers

Aware Super and Delancey JV targets UK with £1bn platform

Case for office retrofitting stronger as rent gap hits 35%

Oxford refinances Paris office with €182m Aareal green loan

Axa begins reworking listed Rotterdam office tower

High Court frees BC Partners to develop London office tower

Evercore set to leave Mayfair for Victoria in record letting deal

CA Immo starts development of hybrid Berlin office building

Return to the office: Employers’ need to get chequebooks out

Barings secures central Paris refurbishment opportunity

MEAG gains consent for central London office extension/refurb

KGAL acquires Vienna office building from CA Immo

UniCredit finances CA Immo Berlin offices with €90m loan

Tite Street Capital to back CV Real Estate Frankfurt project

Branicks realises €94m from sale of nine office assets to VIB

Frankfurt’s new look Global Tower handed over fully leased

ECE/Strabag JV sells Cologne office to the city for €270m

Frankfurt office demand weak in H1 but sentiment improves

Dutch office occupiers tend to prioritise energy efficient space

Sweden’s Diös thins out portfolio to focus on offices

Sonae and Axa joint venture to build Lisbon office building

Axa to start work on nature-rich City of London offices

Storebrand buys Norwegian office asset for c€96m

Deutsche Hypo lends Format €31m for Gdansk office asset

10% office rent rise needed to lift viability as supply slows?

Reading: New tenants cite rail service as key to leasing choice

Lenders compete to refinance Bishopsgate office tower

Paternoster sale to ‘optimise’ CR’s Hausinvest portfolio

Greenstone acquires majority stake in Gdansk office

AXA IM Alts completes office complex in La Défense, Paris

Coima: repricing will drive investment activity in Italy

Deka Immobilien pays c€37m for central Dublin office asset

Azora launches Madrid campus devised to aid tenant retention

Coima acquires €200m office portfolio in the heart of Rome

Yield shifts leave some office markets over-priced: Savills

Arminius buys Volkswagen office building from Signa

Outlook for offices improves with emphasis on ‘prime’: AEW

Obayashi-Sellar JV tests water for new City of London tower

Frankfurt office JV to start now €200m debt package in place

Deas reworks Copenhagen asset, puts flexibility to the fore

Ares seeks more value assets as pays Helical £43.5m in London

WFH clouding prospects in German office markets

ECB to take 38,000 sq m in landmark Frankfurt tower

WFH: the struggle for balance in post-covid offices

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Campari buys asset from BNP Paribas to move to Milan CBD

Back-to-the-office orders likely to disrupt workforce: Survey

Europa and NCAP sell refurbed ’70s Stockholm office building

Contractor named as new City office targets 2026 completion

Subletting the main trend as Italian banks cut office space

State of Andalusia buys back office portfolio from WP Carey

Outlook 2024: difficult year ahead for German office sector

Green light for LaSalle IM’s ‘revolutionary’ Paris offices

Union Investment agrees sale of Stockholm office to Niam

CA Immo obtains 4% green refinancing on Munich office

CA Immo exceeds book value in sale of ZigZag office in Mainz

Germany’s office market crisis continues in Q3: pbb Index

CEE offers a rich green tapestry of investment opportunities

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Axa’s Paris letting to Suez reaffirms conviction to offices

New definition of ‘the office’ required says Germany’s ZIA

Covivio sells refurbed 1930s Paris office to luxury goods firm

WP Carey to shed office assets through sales and new REIT

Hines planning 2 million sq ft office-led London project

Coima/QIA Milan sale marks Union’s Italian office debut

Lion Plaza in City of London sold for over £200 million

Schroders Capital wins consent for the City’s third tallest office

Fabege’s €290m Stockholm office sale aids NREP strategy

Twin tower shuffle: S Immo buys Vienna towers for €116m

Sonae and Signal to develop Lisbon mixed-use project

CEE Summit: logistics and office sectors outperforming

Timber-built city quarter to be developed in south Stockholm

£1.5bn Manchester project adapts to office demand shift

Valesco buys Accor Paris HQ in record-breaking €460m deal

Manchester’s One Angel Square on market for £165m

Church plans office and resi tower in central Frankfurt

European office occupancy is largely back to normal: Colliers

Commerz Real buys out Signa interest in Berlin office tower

56% of global corporates pick hybrid office policy: KF/Cresa

Lenders worried about offices but retail’s making a comeback

France and US sales bring URW disposal targets closer

S&P stress test indicates office backed CMBS are resilient

London office refurbs hit high in race to avoid obsolescence

Handover to SLC completes Glasgow wharf transformation

Only London and Paris ahead of Warsaw in office demand

Offices and logistics insulated from energy shocks

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Mind the gap: Paris market becoming ever more polarised

’80s London printworks will be culture venue in BL masterplan

Pain in US office sector could be ‘at least as bad as 08-09’

Attention continues to focus on Warsaw’s Wola office district

Patrizia plans community-friendly London office project

Persistence of remote working threat to Paris & London offices

Berlin resilient despite dip in Q1 demand for German offices

Savills: Offices and logistics shielded from energy shocks

DWS and GIC defend REITs despite pressures on US offices

Cheyne lends £150m for office upgrade in City of London

CBRE: Asian interest driving Central London’s office market

PIC pays Schroders £267m for UK government Croydon space

76% of Europe’s offices may be obsolete as expectations rise

Mainz office campus improved and sold to Gold Tree Group

Sustainable offices contribute to sustainable cities

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ULI: Landlords may need to ‘act soon to preserve rental income’

ReInvest acquires sustainable office project in Barcelona

JLL: Asia and Europe lead back to the office trend, US lagging

Niam is to push ahead with Helsinki’s tallest office tower

Propreal buys two prime office buildings in central Barcelona

European key cities attracting more people back to the office

Germany’s office space and investment markets diverging

London office demand persists despite challenges: BNPPRE

Occupiers embrace European offices – leasing up 15%: C&W

Values’ public sector fund buys the former RTL HQ in Cologne

Hong Kong buyer is set to pay Landsec £349.5m for City asset

Spanish REIT Colonial sells off three Madrid offices for €300m

Samsung to exploit repricing with €375m AEW mandate

ESG beckons as Becken plans revamp of new Munich asset

Allianz buys Milan asset from Blackstone for €200 million

Companies improving offices to entice people back to work

TOG opens London’s tallest mass timber office building

Conren Land buys Deka’s Scala West and plans major facelift

ESG requirements could boost Dublin office demand in 2023

Primonial REIM France buys Bloom office building in Paris

Fresh perspective of elevator data gives office owners a lift

Invesco’s prime London asset to become carbon-neutral

NREP’s Helsinki office purchase to join sustainable flex portfolio

HIH Invest Real Estate buys 90% prelet project in Freiburg

NAS Invest €20m upgrade answers call for green space

Office volumes fall but some European markets buck trend

Offices account for over 40% of H1’22 investment: Colliers

Luxembourg’s REInvest takes Bronze in €65m deal for fund

Europe’s flex office share heading for 20% – Savills

Real IS sells geoscience HQ in Canberra’s largest ever deal

CEO interview: ‘Hybrid working can dovetail with conventional office work’

Paul Strohm

Blackstone signs up for new European HQ in London

EXPO Real: Helaba increases Helsinki office loan to €128m

M&G Real Estate invests c€700m in Japanese offices

NAS Invest buys Frankfurt office tower from JP Morgan

Immofinanz to sell Hungarian office portfolio to S Immo

AEW acquires pre-let office asset in Munich’s Art District

LendLease pays Landsec £809m for DB London office

Hines bags Paris distillery conversion for Korea’s Hana

HK propco to pay Helical €158m for TikTok London HQ

Conren buys Eschborn office in offmarket deal with Investcorp

NCC to develop 10,000 sq m office project in south Malmö

Kan Am’s Leading Cities fund turns Barcelona office asset

CapMan sells Copenhagen office project for c€67m

ABG pays Cilon €113m for refurbished Eschborn office

Union buys Düsseldorf office development from Oman SWF

European office occupancy at post-covid high – average 43%

Go-ahead for KanAm’s City of London back-to-frame refurb

Mark’s Regeneration fund buys Libération’s former HQ in Paris

Aareal’s €200m green facility backs RedTree Paris purchase

AXA IM Alts to build a £1 billion net-zero office tower in the City

KPMG chooses Coima’s Porta Nuova for its new Milan HQ

Catella Real Estate bets on office market in Luxembourg

Aviva buys an Art Deco office building in Neuilly-sur-Seine

Palace Capital sells industrial assets to focus on ESG & offices

Jury out on office and retail as economic uncertainty persists

European office vacancy rates stabilise above 7%: Savills

Union breaks 12-year absence with €65m Spanish office buy

Lone Star and Cavatina agree deal on Polish office buildings

Savills: working in the office is more energy efficient in winter

Go ahead for net zero carbon City of London office rejig

Commerz Real acquires trophy office asset in Washington DC

Berlin Hyp lends Aviva €78m for Amsterdam office purchase

CEE Summit: Real estate markets ‘fragile’ after war brings uncertainty

Paul Strohm

It’s back to the office, but work/life balance becomes key

Nicol Dynes

M&G pays Ardian €271m for central Paris office asset

European offices need price correction: Oxford Economics

Mahr von Staszewski leads Immobel’s green office effort

Paul Strohm

Hines in €200m deal to acquire Deloitte’s Milan headquarters

Lack of supply in Paris market drives investors away from core

Norges pays €677m for half share of Oxford’s Sony Center

Conren plans €50m project at former Braun Barcelona HQ

Landsec funds London’s ‘Liberty’ mixed-use project

QIA offers 38% premium to de-list Italian REIT Coima Res

GIC pays £694m for 75% stake in BL’s Paddington Central

Aviva increases Amsterdam exposure with portfolio buy

Amundi buys office building in Central Milan for €120.5 million

Patrizia gets go-ahead for own ‘workplace of future’ in London

Context and community key for the office of the future

Hong Kong investor pays £191m for City office building

Investcorp spends €128m in Rome in second Italian foray

MIPIM: Back to the office, but work/life balance becomes key

CEE: Offices are back, but occupiers demand more flexibility

Nicol Dynes

International investors return to safe haven Germany

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Making an impact outside the office

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Frankfurt’s Marienturm goes to DWS – €830m price reported

Allianz and partners to develop €1.3bn of offices in Germany

Barings pays £70m for value-add City of London office asset

Immobel buys half share in £110m green office campus

Allianz and Canada’s PSP fund Welput’s Victoria office giant

AEW bags Commerz Real’s Cologne city centre office giant

Tristan pays Deka €175m for ‘iconic’ Paris office assets

Sonae Sierra partners Grupo Ferreira for €42m Porto project

France: Resi in demand as investors become less risk averse

Nicol Dynes

Patrizia sells Edinburgh offices to Kennedy Wilson for £78m

Citigroup invests £100 million to refurbish its London HQ

Rent increases in sight for CEE offices and logistics assets

DRC SIM finances Victory’s Amsterdam office acquisition

Offices in demand in CEE but need for flexibility a challenge

UK landlords head for higher proportion of flexible space

Atenor’s Bucharest office project sale realises €50m

Google pays L&G Mitsubishi JV $1bn for Central St Giles asset

Europa buys former Raffeisen Bank Budapest headquarters

Hines makes fifth Paris acquisition for core fund

Hines buys Banco Sabadell’s iconic Barcelona office tower

Kennedy Wilson pays c€72m for southern UK office campus

Bain and FREO to develop Barcelona office space

Union Investment buys Korean consortium’s Brussels tower

Generali Real Estate to invest more in London offices

Oxford to give Berlin’s Sony Center a €200m makeover

New £500m Asian-backed vehicle buys first London asset

All change as offices undergo a radical transformation

Samsung joins Primonial and EDF in major Paris purchase

US property experts think office market shift here to stay

Expo Real: sustainable offices are a competitive advantage

Expo Real: panic has passed and the office is here to stay

Patrizia relocates London HQ to create ‘office of the future’

Investcorp pays €70m for Kering’s Italian headquarters

Henderson Park pays £60m for London office building

Future of office and prospects for city centres are interlinked

Corestate pays €160m for Stuttgart office campus project

Flexible working strategies are here to stay, finds EPRA report

Paul Strohm

CA Immo to develop €300m Berlin bank headquarters

Green offices achieve higher rents, Knight Frank study finds

Union Investment buys period office building in Paris CBD

Lincoln and Enern buy office development site in Warsaw

Italy Special: A new dawn

Nicol Dynes

KanAm buys Axa IM Alts’ 5-building Barcelona portfolio

HQ sale & leaseback puts URW nearer deleveraging target

Europa plans to revamp newly acquired Stuttgart asset

Strong H1 performance from offices in Poland’s regions

Barings looks to CBDs – pays £130m for City of London office

Deka pays €257m for office building in London’s St James’s

RE to start London mixed-use scheme now plans approved