Logistics and industrial sector still attractive for investors: report

The volume of investment deals on the Polish market of industrial and logistics properties in the first quarter of 2022 was €191 million. And although the current economic situation and the high level of uncertainty related to the war in Ukraine pose new challenges for the logistics sector, in the long term, there will be no significant changes in terms of the volume of demand and supply. However, the growth rate of this part of the market may be lower than in previous years – according to the 7R and Colliers report “Logistics and Industrial Sector: Development Paths from the 2022 Perspective”.

“The situation we observed in 2021 was unprecedented in many respects. The pandemic accelerated many processes that would normally have taken much longer, including digital transformation. It also highlighted the sensitivity of supply chains and made increasingly more companies decide to shorten them. The war in Ukraine is creating a great deal of uncertainty on the market. The economic consequences of these events are difficult to predict but, in the long term, we can expect several significant changes in the market of warehousing space. Becoming independent of Russia for energy will certainly give a new impetus to the development of clean energy in Europe, which will perhaps translate into the increased importance of sustainable industrial construction. On the other hand, the inevitable increase in rents will draw even more attention to the optimization of operating costs, as well as the significance of proptech solutions in this respect,” Tomasz Lubowiecki, founder and President of the Management Board of 7R, said.

(WBJ)