In 2020, the total volume invested in real estate assets in Romania reached EUR 914 million, a 28 percent increase compared 2019, illustrating the overall resiliency of the Romanian investment market during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Romania Investment Marketbeat launched by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy firm, quoted by Business-Review.eu.
The most active segment was by far the Office sector, with estimated transaction values of approximately EUR 784 million, representing 86 percent of the total investment value. The Industrial segment attracted 9 percent of the capital, while the remaining 5 percent were split between the Retail and Hospitality sectors. In total, a number of 24 income-producing properties were transacted in 2020, an average of EUR 38 million per property, one of the highest such values in the last decade on the local real estate market.
The six largest transactions pertained to office projects, including the disposal of NEPI Rockcastle’s office portfolio to AFI Europe. The transaction consisted of four office buildings in Bucharest and Timisoara totaling 118,000 sq. m GLA, which were sold for EUR 307 million, the largest office deal ever signed in Romania.
The overall increase of the investment volume is even more impressive in the entire CEE/SEE context, as the Romanian market was the only one which recorded a growth in 2020 compared to 2019. As such, real estate properties with a cumulative value of EUR 9.9 billion were transacted in the region in 2020, an almost 29 percent decrease from the 2019 volume. For example, Poland, which has the highest share in the total volume (57 percent), recorded a 27 percent decrease, Hungary even more at -35 percent, while Czech Republic had the most dramatic drop at 60 percent, thus showing the resilience of the Romanian market which performed way above expectations in a very complicated year.
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