Companies leased industrial & logistics spaces with a total area exceeding 500,000 sq. m in H1 2025, corresponding to a robust y-o-y increase of 25% compared with the same period of last year, according to the Romania Industrial Marketbeat Q2 2025 report.
The net take-up (340,000 sq. m) had a share of 66% in the overall leasing volume throughout the semester and Bucharest remains the most important destination targeted by tenants, with 70% of the total spaces leased in H1 2025 (359,000 sq. m), followed by Timisoara with 13%, the 2nd largest industrial hub in the country.
The two largest contracts concluded in Q2 were exclusively represented by renegotiations, one of 16,000 sq. m signed by Kyocera in CTPark Timisoara Ghiroda, followed by Sarantis (11,000 sq. m in WDP Park Dragomiresti).
Logistics and distribution operators had the largest share in the transacted volume (30% and 160,000 sq. m respectively), while 133,000 sq. m were leased by retail, e-commerce, and FMCG companies (26%), as the manufacturing and automotive industry sector has a share of approximately 5-6% (27,000 sq. m).
The modern stock of industrial & logistics spaces in Romania reached 7.75 million sq. m at the end of Q2, as developers completed new projects with a total leasable area of 184,100 sq. m in H1, a 77% growth compared with the same period last year.
The nationwide vacancy rate increased to a level of 5.8%, but a downward movement is expected in the coming quarters due to the relatively low number of speculative projects under-construction.
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