Residential real estate and institutional rental became one of the fastest growing segments of the Central and Eastern European investment market in the first half of 2026.
The residential/living segment accounted for 19% of investments in commercial real estate CEE-6 compared to only 7% a year earlier, according to Colliers data.
Thus, its share has almost tripled in less than a year and approached the indicators of the traditional largest classes of real estate - offices and retail facilities.
One of the most revealing examples was Poland, where the largest local deal in the history of the market took place in the first half of the year institutional rental housing PRS.
Vantage Development acquired 18 completed Resi4Rent projects for €575 million. The portfolio includes 5,322 apartments in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdańsk, Łódź and Poznań.
This agreement shows the growing interest of large investors in residential properties, intended not for the further sale of individual apartments, but for long-term professional rental of entire portfolios.
This format is widespread in Western Europe, but in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe the institutional rental market is much younger and has more room for growth.
Interest in the segment is supported by urbanization, high acquisition cost of housing, workforce mobility and growing demand for professionally managed rental housing in major cities region.
According to Colliers data, with the total amount of investments in CEE-6 in the amount of 5.8 billion euros, the market is gradually becoming more diversified, and residential/living has already entered the four largest areas of capital investment.
