The announcement of the prestigious CIJ Awards 2020 real estate results saw another victory for consultancy 108 AGENCY. For the fifth year, we defended out Best Warehouse Real Estate Agency title, affirming our role as market leader in brokering industrial real estate.
In the commercial real estate market, there is currently a shortage of industrial and logistics premises, as well as land suitable for their construction. This is mainly due to growing demand, and the fact that local governments aren’t motivated by tax benefits to construct them. The situation is most evident in the vicinity of large cities, and also affects the growth of rent levels. Moreover, it has also caused a new trend in the form of the extension of rent contracts. The first new projects of over 20,000 sq m can only be expected in the second half of 2022.
The fourth quarter of 2020 closed a year full of changes and upcoming trends, also reflected within industrial real estate. Despite the pandemic, the industrial segment proved stable, and there was a significant acceleration in the development of e-commerce, and specifically the digitalisation of the entire retail sector. There remains a high demand for premises on the market from investors and clients, and this interest puts pressure on prices, which will increase significantly at premium locations in 2021.
Interest in outsourcing logistics services is growing in the industrial real estate market. Primarily due to flexibility, customers no longer have to make a long-term commitment, and they can adapt the scope of the storage and related services to their current needs. In today’s dynamic times, this is proving to be an interesting competitive advantage. As a response to this trend, 108 AGENCY established a new division which is exclusively responsible for the brokering of logistics services.
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The pandemic, and the measures relating to it, had only a limited effect on the industrial real estate rental market, in particular with regard to the importance of the logistics sector, supply chains and production for the end consumer. In the third quarter, developers and tenants were catching up with the impact of the lockdown, and the situation in the fourth quarter will tell us more about business models in the coming year.
The survey was realised by the SKLAD (Association of Competent Logistics Providers and Suppliers) association in collaboration with the Ipsos research agency. The result is an extensive study which maps the trends shaping the logistics market in the Czech Republic. 123 managers operating in retail and wholesale company logistics, e-commerce, the automotive industry and manufacturing also took part in its creation.
Commercial real estate has been under pressure from the coronavirus for several months now. At the beginning of the year 2020, a slight cooling of the market and reduction in demand was observed. And with the advent of March, it was clear that COVID-19 will also affect the real estate market. After the initial uncertainty, and reassessment of which operating model will pay off under the constantly changing conditions and restrictions, the situation is gradually stabilising. Today, we can evaluate which real estate market segments fared the best in the battle.
With the arrival of 2020 and the Czech real estate consultancy 108 AGENCY entering the new decade, its organisational structure has been changed. These changes affect the Industrial and Offices divisions of the Czech branch.
