{"id":1691,"date":"2021-07-29T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T10:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T10:10:43","slug":"the-prs-market-in-the-cee-region-gathers-pace-and-interest-from-investors-but-the-majority-of-activity-is-currently-centred-around-the-czech-republic-and-poland-26114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/the-prs-market-in-the-cee-region-gathers-pace-and-interest-from-investors-but-the-majority-of-activity-is-currently-centred-around-the-czech-republic-and-poland-26114\/","title":{"rendered":"The PRS market in the CEE region gathers pace and interest from investors but the majority of activity is currently centred around the Czech Republic and Poland."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residential volumes across the CEE region have been limited and averaged out annually at just over \u20ac200 million in the past 5 years. There is a larger number of PRS\/BTR projects being announced in the pipeline for delivery over the next few years across the region according to \u201c<strong>The Private Rental Sector: Has it found a home in CEE?<\/strong>\u201d launched by Colliers in collaboration with Greenberg Traurig and Kinstellar. From the stock of existing developer\/investor owned, multiple unit PRS schemes, the Czech Republic is ahead, followed by Poland and the remaining countries behind that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/the-prs-market-in-the-cee-region-gathers-pace-and-interest-from-investors-but-the-majority-of-activity-is-currently-centred-around-the-czech-republic-and-poland-26114\/#PRS_Market_Drivers\" >PRS Market Drivers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/the-prs-market-in-the-cee-region-gathers-pace-and-interest-from-investors-but-the-majority-of-activity-is-currently-centred-around-the-czech-republic-and-poland-26114\/#Overcrowding\" >Overcrowding<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/the-prs-market-in-the-cee-region-gathers-pace-and-interest-from-investors-but-the-majority-of-activity-is-currently-centred-around-the-czech-republic-and-poland-26114\/#Stock_and_Pipeline\" >Stock and Pipeline<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/the-prs-market-in-the-cee-region-gathers-pace-and-interest-from-investors-but-the-majority-of-activity-is-currently-centred-around-the-czech-republic-and-poland-26114\/#Leasing_Conditions\" >Leasing Conditions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/the-prs-market-in-the-cee-region-gathers-pace-and-interest-from-investors-but-the-majority-of-activity-is-currently-centred-around-the-czech-republic-and-poland-26114\/#Investment_Market_%E2%80%93_Residential_Volumes\" >Investment Market &#8211; Residential Volumes<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/the-prs-market-in-the-cee-region-gathers-pace-and-interest-from-investors-but-the-majority-of-activity-is-currently-centred-around-the-czech-republic-and-poland-26114\/#Yields\" >Yields<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"PRS_Market_Drivers\"><\/span>PRS Market Drivers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a growing, fragmented rental market in many countries, as private individuals invest into residential properties for personal investment purposes. This is largely because savings sat in personal accounts are not providing any meaningful returns and the borrowing costs on a mortgage have been historically low in most markets. Many of these residential units are being rented out and in the meantime values are rising, as sales prices per square metre continue to grow year on year. Coupled with the shortage of new supply in many markets and the impact of this activity, it is also fuelling this momentum, and making the dream of owning a home for many, seemingly impossible. And it is partially for these reasons that the PRS sector and interest from investors has also been rising,\u201d adds <strong>Kevin Turpin<\/strong>, Regional Director of Research, CEE, Colliers.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Overcrowding\"><\/span>Overcrowding<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In 2019, the highest overcrowding rates (based on the availability of rooms per person and the average size of household) were observed in Romania (45.8 %), Latvia (42.2 %) and Bulgaria (41.1 %), and the lowest in Cyprus (2.2 %). \u00a0The data suggests that the majority of households in Central Europe are more overcrowded than the EU average. The long-term European trend shows a gradual decline in overcrowding, therefore if we assume that this trend continues and the CEE markets continue towards a convergence, then this goes someway to proving a supply gap, and that more housing is required. From this supply, we would anticipate that rental properties would make up a reasonable portion, subject to a shift in strategy from more developers and investors. This is already starting to happen in Poland and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Stock_and_Pipeline\"><\/span>Stock and Pipeline<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The last 5 years across CEE have seen sales prices rising rapidly, partly driven by a shortage of supply, relative ease and low cost of debt, and the desire for people to invest, in an effort to earn more money on their savings than they would receive in the bank. There are also other factors at\u00a0play, such as the shortage and rising costs of suitable land plots, drawn-out and uncertain permitting processes, and the shortage and subsequent rise in costs of both construction labour and materials. According to Eurostat data, the cost for constructing new residences in the EU has increased by 15% during the period 2010 to 2019. Among the CEE member states, the largest rises were observed in Hungary (+47 %) and Romania (+46 %). With all of these factors taken into account, many developers across the region are not tempted to deviate from the build-to-sell model of individual units. From the stock of existing developer\/investor owned, multiple unit PRS schemes, the Czech Republic is quite far ahead with ca. 57,000 units, followed by Poland with ca. 4,500 units.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, PRS as an asset class is a relatively new phenomenon in CEE, and you certainly have less of it as you move farther east.\u00a0 Part of it is legacy-related: home ownership was always extremely high in CEE and reflected a mentality that one needed to own one\u2019s home. That is no longer necessarily the case. As demographics are changing and with prices steadily rising for development in congested areas with opportunities becoming scarcer, and many people being priced out of the market for home purchase, we expect this asset class to take hold in CEE,\u201d adds<strong> Victor Constantinescu<\/strong>, Managing Partner, Co-head Real Estate, Bucharest, Kinstellar.<\/p>\n<p>We are also seeing a larger number of PRS\/BTR projects being announced in the pipeline for delivery over the next few years. When tracking multi-unit PRS activity, it is clear that the markets in CEE are all in the relatively early stages of development but are also developing at different speeds. We can certainly see a more rapidly growing trend in Poland and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Leasing_Conditions\"><\/span>Leasing Conditions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the majority of markets, it is common for leases to be defined as long and short term, with short-term typically defined as less than 3 months, but can be up to 6 months. Long term is typically 1 year or more in length, which is obviously significantly less than the standard 5+ year leases seen in other commercial sectors. In the PRS sector, 1 year leases are most common and on completion, tenants will either give notice and move out, or extend for another year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn\u00a0the CEE countries covered in this report, there were no such regulations restricting leases between private entities and there are no known plans to introduce these at the time of writing this report. Therefore, at the end of each year or lease term, landlords are within their rights to review rent, as no indexation is applied in the standard 1-year lease contract. This can of course sometimes lead to sizeable jumps in rents depending on market conditions at the time,\u201d says <strong>Agata Jurek-Zbrojska<\/strong>, Real Estate Partner, Greenberg Traurig Poland.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Investment_Market_%E2%80%93_Residential_Volumes\"><\/span>Investment Market &#8211; Residential Volumes<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Residential volumes across the CEE region have been rather limited and averaged out annually at just over \u20ac200 million in the past 5 years (as opposed to transaction volumes of more than \u20ac60 billion in both 2019 and 2020 across EMEA).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1693\" style=\"width: 2250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1693\" src=\"http:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers.jpg\" alt=\"Dorota Wysoki\u0144ska-Kuzdra, Senior Partner, Corporate Finance, CEE, Colliers\" width=\"2250\" height=\"1500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers.jpg 2250w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Wysokinska-Kuzdra-Dorota-Colliers-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2250px) 100vw, 2250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorota Wysoki\u0144ska-Kuzdra, Senior Partner, Corporate Finance, CEE, Colliers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is again having everything to do with the lack of standing product available on the market as opposed to the lack of investor appetite. In a few of the cases that we have seen and advised on in CEE, investors have entered the market through acquiring a residential developer or establishing a joint venture to secure pipeline and volume. This can be a great win-win scenario\u00a0for some as it can help fast track both for sale and rental product by sharing the financing load,\u201d explains <strong>Dorota Wysoki\u0144ska-Kuzdra<\/strong>, Senior Partner, Corporate Finance, CEE, Colliers.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Yields\"><\/span>Yields<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Our current view is that yields, depending on the location, would range between 3.5-4.0% in the Czech Republic and 5.0-5.5% in Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residential volumes across the CEE region have been limited and averaged out annually at just over \u20ac200 million in the past 5 years. 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