CZECH REAL ESTATE CONSULTANCY SPACE BROKERS
EXPANDS ITS TEAM TO SLOVAKIA
Space Brokers, a Czech real estate consultancy company focused on commercial real estate, is expanding its team in Slovakia with 2 senior consultants after an extremely successful first year. The new colleagues Martin Varačka and Martin Šafárik are responsible for commercial property leasing in Slovakia. At the same time, Lucia Voslářová joins Space Brokers as Marketing Director for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Space Brokers operates on the Czech and now Slovak commercial real estate market, offering companies the opportunity to find suitable tailor-made space and negotiate or renegotiate lease terms. It provides commercial property owners with quality tenants. We are an independent company that operates on the basis of a long-standing partnership between partners and we believe in building long-term relationships with our clients.
"We are pleased that Space Brokers has successfully established itself on the Czech real estate market over the past year and that we have become a symbol of quality services for our clients based on a personal approach, on the effort to find a tailor-made solution and on a high level of flexibility in its implementation," says Marek Sýkora, partner of Space Brokers, and adds: "many of our clients are also active in Slovakia and we are glad that thanks to Martin Varačka and Martin Šafárik we can provide the same high level of real estate consulting on the local market."
"We focus on the industrial real estate market, whose growth has not been halted by the coronavirus pandemic; on the contrary, there is still an excess of demand over supply. In the past 14 months alone, our company has brokered leases for a total of 160,000 sqm of modern warehouse and manufacturing space across the Czech Republic. Among our largest transactions were Crussis leases (21,000 sqm at Prologis Park Úžice) and Rohlik (13,500 sqm at Prologis Park Chrastany). Especially in the Prague and Central Bohemia regions, where there is no vacant space available for lease, these were renegotiations," adds Jana Slavíková, partner at Space Brokers.
"We are also observing trends in the Czech industrial and logistics real estate market, including a lack of vacant land for new construction, innovative redevelopment of brownfields and steady rental growth in Slovakia. In 2020 and 2021, most developers have focused on leasing their existing parks and acquiring land for further development. In the second half of 2021 and especially in the first quarter of 2022, we have seen new players entering the market and higher transaction activity, which has started to reduce the average vacancy rate of Slovak industrial properties. In our view, there is still a lack of modern city logistics supply in regional cities to cover the demand for warehouse units up to 1,000 sqm," Martin Varačka, partner at Space Brokers in Slovakia, assesses the current Slovak industrial real estate market.
New members of Space Brokers:
Martin Varačka, Partner SK
Martin Varačka has been active on the Slovak commercial real estate market since 2005 and is one of the longest established real estate agents in the industry. It has more than 1M sqm of leased, renegotiated, subleased warehouse, office and retail space and more than 3.2M sqm of sold land.
Martin Šafárik, Partner | Industrial SK
He has been active on the Slovak real estate market since 2006 and has been involved in the leasing of more than 820,000 sqm of warehouse space and the sale of more than 260 ha of land for commercial use.
Lucia Voslářová, Marketing Director | CZ & SK
She has been in marketing commercial real estate since 2014. Previously, she worked in an international real estate company, where she was responsible for, among other things, coordinating marketing activities,creative development of B2B retail marketing for the Central and Eastern Europe region. Through her work, she has been instrumental in winning a number of important mandates and clients in the retail sector.