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Global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has summarized the Polish retail market. 406,000 sq m of retail space was handed over in 2019. The development pipeline currently stands at approximately 500,000 sq m, 85% of which is scheduled for opening by the end of 2020. Going forward, investors’ interest will increasingly shift towards smaller cities below 100,000 inhabitants, says Cushman & Wakefield.

At the end of 2019, the combined office stock of Poland’s regional city office markets climbed to 5.61 million sq m, surpassing Warsaw’s 5.59 million sq m for the first time in history. The total office stock of the nation’s nine largest markets (Warsaw, Krakow, Wrocław, Tricity, the Upper Silesian and Zagłębie Metropolis, Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, and Szczecin) came close to 11.2 million sq m at the end of last year, representing an almost 8% increase on 2018’s level.

2020’s headline news is that logistics real estate will continue to be driven by key trends in e-commerce, technology, and labour availability.

Who will be the risk-takers?

The real estate industry is now witnessing some fundamental changes. After years of lagging behind the pace of technological change, property is beginning to catch up.