Jaroslav Mida (Mint Investments): Maturing loans will drive repricing
Why did Mint decide to go for the GRESB rating? There had been a lot of talk about the importance of complying with ESG environmental standards, so we started to develop our knowledge about the topic. We approached Steffen Walvius at JLL and had some discussions with...
Jonathan Cohen (Colliers): Payback on solar now under 4 years
Who are you targeting with your photovoltaics business line? It can be clients who have a building and want to know the possibility of installing photovoltaics on the roof. It could also be for a free land plot adjacent to the building, or photovoltaics (PV) over the...
David Yearn (REassurance): Deals could be slow until MIPIM
What’s your remit at REassurance? As managing director, it’s perhaps to move away from some of the day-to-day stuff that I was doing previously and to take a bit more of a strategic approach. The impetus behind REassurance was really that the whole insurance...
Richard Curran (Knight Frank): €29 rents in central Prague are a myth
Are rents in central offices going to go up to €27 - 29 as advertised? No. Certainly not in the short to medium term. People are taking this number off of one building, which is Masaryčka. Penta appear to be very successful in renting it, however, it's not reflective...
Jan Kubíček: A decade of cooperation helped malls survive Covid
Jan Kubíček says that during the Covid-19 pandemic, retail Czech shopping mall owners benefited from a decade of cooperation and sharing information through the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). The current crisis is presenting quite different...
Karel Stranský (Colliers): Nearshoring marks the end of globalization (as we knew it)
We’ve become used to the idea of nearshoring as a major potential source of new business for industrial developers. The now-accepted narrative behind this conviction is that the pandemic served as a wake-up call for manufacturers and consumer goods producers. That in...
Fraser Watson (Savills): Lack of deals leaves us in limbo
Did quoting 4% prime yields for Prague end after February 24? In view of all that’s changed, it seems unlikely we’ll see their like for a long time. I think if you look at Churchill at the rumored 4.25%, the feeling was that if something like Florentinum or another...
Oana Stamatin (Colliers): ESG is not just a certificate
Earlier this year, Colliers named Oana Stamatin Director of ESG for Central & Eastern Europe. This didn't come out of nowhere...Oana has been building her ESG expertise over that past 10 years, during which time she's been involved in over 100 projects totaling 3...
