European Retail Warehousing – 2026
Retail warehousing has proven to be one of Europe's best-performing retail formats in recent years, delivering sector-leading total returns of 7.4% in 2025.
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Retail warehousing has proven to be one of Europe's best-performing retail formats in recent years, delivering sector-leading total returns of 7.4% in 2025.
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Exceeding modest expectations neatly captures the mood surrounding the European economy.
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Growing suburban consumer belts
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Retail parks embrace a more multifunctional future
Growing suburban consumer belts
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Demographic tailwinds move closer to home
Growing suburban consumer belts
European retail park stock has now reached 51 million sq m, on the back of a 2.4% increase last year, the strongest year of development activity since 2020.
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Evolution over broad-based expansion
European retail park stock has now reached 51 million sq m, on the back of a 2.4% increase last year, the strongest year of development activity since 2020.
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"With no new office completions or refurbishments delivered in Q3,Prague’s modern office stock remained at 3.95 million sq m."
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"Cumulative investment volume in the Czech commercial real estate market exceeded €1.82 billion in Q1–Q3 2026, the second-highest firstnine-month total in the past five years. It had already surpassed the full-year totals recorded in each of 2021–2024."

"Average European prime CBD office yields move out by 13 bps in response to higher bond yields during Q3 2026."

"Savills European Real Estate Logistics Census outlines the challenges and opportunities facing Europe’s logistics occupiers, developers and investors"

"Stronger economies are supporting property income, but renewed rate pressure is keeping the recovery selective, prime-led and regionally uneven."

"European shopping centres are entering a new phase of recovery, characterised by improving fundamentals, broadening investor interest and an increasingly pronounced quality divide."

"European consumer economy defies expectations to help logistics market see 20% rise in take-up against the same period last year."

"European office vacancy rates remain stable, as shortage of new-build space pushes up prime CBD rents."
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"Construction activity remained robust in the Czech Republic during H1 2026, with 485,400 sq m of industrial space completed. This was slightly higher than in the same period last year and significantly above both the five-year and 10-year H1 averages. "
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"Total modern office stock in Prague reached 3.95 million sq m by the end of Q2 2026, expanding by 29,400 sq m during H1. "