BREC TALKS

Office buildings need to be interesting, creative, non-standard and exciting to be in. Bucharest is still building largely boring buildings and needs to wake up to the demand for better buildings that let at higher rents.

We have many small developers that don’t allow the risk to get out of a pattern and, in this way, we have an excess of similar products. The demand for new homes is high, whatever there is on the market is being sold and we produce what has been sold.

Investors’ appetite for real estate assets is obviously increasing as compared to last year, with the office sector taking the lead. In the first semester there have been two major deals and we believe other large transactions will follow.

Roxana Dudau, Associated Partner heads Noerr’s Real Estate & Construction Department in Romania. She is a well-known & reputable real estate expert on the Romanian market. BREC talked with Roxana about the main factors influencing the local real estate investment market, the quality of the products and the pottential of each sector.

Zoku Amsterdam was opened in 2016 and is a “combination between Airbnb and WeWork”, as Business Insider pointed out. The company is now developing in Europe, so BREC talked in an exclusive interview with Marc Jongerius, Managing Director & Co-founder Zoku, about targeted cities and the expansion model.

With new office hubs and retail formats developing, we sat down with Răzvan Crișan, Co-founder of m60 and talked about the specialty coffee market development and opportunities.

BREC Talks to Marian PopaDirector of DB Global Technology in Bucharest ``Romanian Real Estate market starts to enter a pre-maturity phase and I sense the need of its transformation in a supplier for habitat services.…

Chinese companies will become more and more interested in the investment opportunities in Romania, in the context of dynamic promotion of the New Silk Road Initiative.

Retail surveillance can provide information to support the development of better store layouts – via heat mapping and dwell time applications.