Real Estate - Research & Studies

The Czech economy is projected to recover modestly in 2010, with GDP forecast to reach a level of 1,1 % by the year end.

Cushman & Wakefield is committed to providing the highest quality of service to its business space clients through the continuous monitoring of office and industrial trends and practices. This edition of Industrial Space Across the World provides a detailed analysis of prime industrial property rental performance and occupancy costs across the globe in the twelve months to December 2009...

London and Paris have consistently been the two best known cities in the survey. Eight of the top 10 most well known cities back in 1990 are still most recognised today, but Geneva and Zurich have fallen outside the top 10. All the Central European cities have seen a rise in how well known they are since the late 1990s.

This is the 20th year that Cushman & Wakefield has conducted this survey on Europe’s major business cities. Since 1990 the survey has provided an overview of the perceptions that corporate occupiers have about cities across Europe and their relative attractiveness.

Cushman & Wakefield is committed to providing an excellent service to their retail clients through the continuous monitoring of retail trends and practices. This edition of Main Streets Across The World provides a detailed analysis of retail property rental performance across the globe in the twelve months to June 2009.

2008 was an “annus horribilis” for the banking industry but despite all expectations letting activity to banks increased by 25% year on year in 2008, albeit bolstered by a few large deals. However, a sharp slowdown was evident in the first quarter of 2009, with activity 80% below the quarterly average.

Following very sharp upward movements in yields towards the end of 2008, the first three months of 2009 brought further increases. In Q1 2009 the EU-27 CB Richard Ellis Prime Yield Indices went up by 30 basis points on average across all three sectors. This is only slightly less than the 40 bps increases reported in Q4 2008.

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2008 was a year of dramatic change in the global occupational market, following the heady performance of 2007...

120,000 SQ M Of Modern Warehouse Space Was Leased In the Forth Quarter Of 2008

€ 3.5 billion of unleveraged equity waiting to be invested in CEE

Sixty per cent of the originally planned floorspace of shopping centres was built in 2008.

New York’s Fifth Avenue is the world’s most expensive shopping street in 2008. Na Příkopě, in Prague, the most expensive shopping destination in the Czech Republic, has dropped two places to twentieth in the annual Main Streets Across the World survey drawn up by the leading real estate consultants Cushman & Wakefield. The latest survey results were released at MAPIC, the prestigious real estate trade show, which ended on Friday in Cannes.

Over recent years, developed economies from around the world have seen a continuing shrinkage in interest rate margins, which banks are trying to make up for by sharply cutting costs and boosting their commission and fee incomes. The cost-cutting trend is ongoing as it is becoming more and more difficult to find additional growth opportunities in the saturated European banking sector. This is also why we have been witnessing such a large amount of consolidation in the banking sector.

Thin capitalisation and the application of new regulations in practice | The application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) at real estate companies | Property valuation | Property transactions | Investments in non-listed European real estate funds and others.

Moscow and Istanbul ranked first and second, respectively, as this year’s top real estate markets in Europe for both investment and development prospects, according to the real estate forecast, Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2008, by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.