New Europe, new premises

 ‘Eurobuild’ takes a tour of CEE CITIES to see how the first wave of EU countries ARE doing in the office sector compared with the lateR-comers and the candidates The CEE states can be roughly divided into four categories: the Visegrad countries, the new EU members, EU candidates and the rest. The Visegrad countries – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary – were the first of the former Soviet bloc countries to join the EU (in 2004), and are all now exhibiting signs of maturity, such as stable rents and an end to the yield compression of recent years. Poles of attractionAccording to Anna Staniszewska, associate director of consulting and research at DTZ Polska: “It has been a remarkable year for the office markets both in Warsaw as well as in Poland’s key regional cities.” Warsaw has the biggest office sector of any city in these countries, with a total stock of 2.7 mln sqm at the end of the third quarter of 2007. It is also rather