Europe's logistics real estate market is entering a phase of stability and consolidation, offering predictable rental growth and strategic opportunities for businesses seeking warehouse and logistics space across the continent. Discover where to find the best value and potential.
Accolade Industrial Fund has successfully secured a €28 million loan from Tatra banka, earmarked for the refinancing and significant further development of its strategically located Accolade Funds Park Košice Airport. This expansion promises new opportunities for businesses seeking prime logistics and industrial space in a rapidly growing region.
The second quarter of 2025 brought notable shifts to Slovakia's industrial real estate market, with a significant increase in vacancy rates and a sustained decline in demand. For businesses seeking new warehouse or production space, these trends signal emerging opportunities, including potentially more favorable lease terms and a wider selection of properties.
The past few years certainly haven’t been easy for retailers. A pandemic, global chain disruptions and shortages, inflationary pressures that have squeezed consumers’ wallets and increased product costs, economic uncertainty and geopolitical instability have resulted in the closure of thousands of stores and the demise of numerous brands. Not content with all this economic disruption, a new phase of digital technology has altered consumer behaviour and increased expectations, changing the retail marketplace forever. Growth opportunities exist, but seizing them requires new mindsets, technologies, supply chain capabilities, and logistics networks.
Humanoid in the warehouse. Robotic automation and machine learning are driving the transformation of the logistics and supply chain industry. DCVC portfolio company Agility Robotics is at the forefront of reshaping the way humans and robots collaborate to increase productivity and safety in warehouse environments.
In the second quarter of this year, the rental activity of industrial and logistics properties reached almost 180,000 m2, while take-up (leased premises cleaned of lease extensions in the tenant's current premises) rose to 110,000 m2. Compared to the last quarter, this is a really significant increase, the take-up itself increased by 108%. This follows from the quarterly report of the global real estate consulting company CBRE.
CTP leased approximately 18,000 m2 of industrial and logistics space in Slovakia to the Chinese company Jiangsu Xinquan Automotive Trim, which produces interior parts for the automotive sector.
Developer BLUEPRINT is preparing logistics projects for 120 million euros. The development company BLUEPRINT responds to the high demand for logistics premises in the vicinity of Bratislava and is preparing two projects that will help satisfy this demand. Specifically, it concerns the construction of a logistics center in Podunajské Biskupice, Bratislava, and the second project is a logistics hall in Croatian Grob.
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