“There is a happy tandem which triggers the development of the office market in Romania’s big cities – the workforce demand from IT&C and outsourcing companies and the increase of qualitative offers for office spaces, in new buildings, at international standards. Romania ranks second in Deloitte CE Technology Fast 50 report, after Poland, and this materializes into a higher and higher interest of investors in Romanian workforce and implicitly in its adaptation, not only in Bucharest but also in all the university centers,” Alexandru Petrescu, managing partner ESOP Consulting, said in a statement.
Esop Consulting intermediated last year a transaction for 4,000 sqm in City Business Center in Timisoara city for Hella company and one of 1,000 sqm in Palas in Iași city for Cegeka.
The office buildings with the large spaces traded last year countrywide were Palas and Unites Business Center 3 in Iasi, City Business Center and BC Open Ville in Timisoara, Cluj Business Center and The Office in Cluj-Napoca.
Iasi and Timisoara cities are followed by Craiova (6,500 sqm office spaces traded in 2015), Cluj-Napoca (5,350 sqm), Brasov (3,800 sqm), Oradea (1,886 sqm), and Bacau (1,400 sqm).
According to ESOP, this trend will be maintained this year as well, and the interest in workforce outside the capital city will remain high.