Real estate transactions for office buildings, logistic areas and investment market in Bucharest will exceed 800 million euros in 2015, according to a study made by the real estate consulting company Colliers International. Outsourcing services continue to be the most powerful office sector as Romania has become more and more visible for big companies like BPO, SSC and IT, interested in Bucharest and secondary towns. Over 60,000 people are now employed in outsourcing activities and up to 150,000 employees are expected in this sector in the next 5 years. The most dynamic are for office areas is still Floreasca-Barbu Vacarescu which may reach a total stock of half a million square metres by 2020. The modern building stock has generated most demands, about 215,000 sq.m being rented in the last five years. The area will continue to be an attraction pole in the future, considering that over 155,000 sq.m of office areas will be built by the end of 2020. Bucharest is among East European Capitals offering 7.5% for the office sector, a similar retail level and about 9% for the industrial sector. Logistic areas have a vacancy degree of 8%, but by the end of 2016 the stocl will grow by 100,000 sq.m. The value of rents for new areas is between 3.5 and 4.15 euros/sq.m. According to the estimated consumption increase, Bucharest might have an additional 100,000 sq.m. of retail (non-food) areas, so that it could reach a total stock of over 900,000 sq.m of retail areas. In the last two years, the northern and Theodor Pallady areas have been the most active areas in Bucharest in point of land transactions. The northern part of the Capital, which includes Aviatiei, Barbu Vacarescu, Caramfil, Dimitrie Pompeiu and Floreasca, reported investments of over 100 million euros in land, with transactions for over 20 ha. For Theodor Pallady, the residential and retail sectors generated transactions for 50 ha, worth over 60 million euros.
Participation in cultural education activities continues to be limited, with the main barriers being difficult access, insufficient knowledge, and cost, the recently released Cultural Consumption Barometer 2024 shows. The report showed that many Romanians still associate culture with entertainment rather than with personal development or furthering their knowledge. The need for relaxation dominates in cultural […]
Roughly 84% of Romanians say that the pace of the state’s digitalization is slow or very slow, according to an Edge Institute & AtlasIntel study presented at the Digital Governance Summit 2025, which took place on Tuesday, November 25, at the presidential palace in Bucharest. The survey aims to capture the way citizens relate to […]
Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) issued a negative opinion on the new bill regarding magistrates’ pensions. The move is only the latest development concerning a heated issue that led to tensions between the executive and the judiciary branch. CSM’s opinion is consultative, and the government led by Ilie Bolojan can still take responsibility for […]
Romania took the presidency of the Central European Initiative (or CEI) on Wednesday, November 26, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The organization is a regional intergovernmental forum established in 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It gathers 17 Member States in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe […]
Trade between Romania and Poland continues to grow, with annual bilateral exchanges in goods now valued at more than EUR 12 billion, according to figures presented by the Polish-Romanian Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PRBCC). The data was released during a reception in Bucharest marking Poland’s Independence Day and Romania’s National Day. Polish investments […]
As Romania moves closer to implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, local employers are preparing for one of the most consequential shifts in workplace regulation in over a decade. The directive, set for transposition by June 2026, introduces strict new rules on salary disclosure, pay reporting, and equal-pay verification, aiming to close persistent gender gaps […]
