Falling for coronavirus commercial real estate market is still preparing the transaction. Renaissance Development can rent space for its headquarters in the multifunctional complex of the Neva Towers in the business center “Moscow-city”, which itself was built. Now office space owned by a member of the group “Rossium” Metrika Investments, and staff developer sitting in the showroom near Neva Towers. But soon the apartments will be sold out, companies will have to move.That the Turkish Renaissance Development may lease office space in the complex Neva Towers, told two sources “Kommersant” in the real estate market. According to them, it is about 2 thousand sq m — in the current situation is one of the few movements in the office market.Neva Towers belongs Metrika Investments. The company did not respond to a request “b”. The representative of Renaissance Development declined to comment. Metrika Investments created by the fall of 2019 concern “Rossium” Roman Avdeev for commercial property management and investments, primarily in offices of class A. In the company’s portfolio includes facilities of the group “Region” with which “Rossium” United in the summer of 2019: complex “Mercedes-Benz Plaza” area of 20 thousand square meters on Leningradsky Prospekt and Art Gallery Business Park area of 64 thousand square meters on the Kirovograd street. In December Metrika Investments made the largest investment deal of the year, buying more than 20 billion rubles 56 thousand sq. m of offices in Neva Towers. The complex completes the same Renaissance Development, its total area is 357 thousand square meters, of which about 130 thousand sq m apartment 7 thousand sqm are retail space.The staff of the Renaissance Development is now placed in the sales office near Neva Towers. To do this, and rented space in the complex.Partner of Colliers International Stanislav Bibik notes that during the period of quarantine, some companies continue to consider the possibility of renting offices, but the decisions in most cases will only be accepted after the lifting of measures of self-isolation. According to Colliers International, in the first quarter of 2020 the most active on the office market showed companies in the banking sector, which accounted for 32% of transactions of lease and purchase.CBRE added that the most stable in the crisis, is likely to be a large business, the quasi-public companies and representatives of the public sector. The first quarter of 2020, according to the observations of the consultants were active: the company rented and purchased 357 thousand sq m of office space, 48% more than in January—March 2019, and only 1% lower than in 2018, when the quarterly volume of deals was the highest in the last ten years. The largest lease transaction in January—March 2020, according to CBRE, was the agreement of the structure of Rosatom “RusAtom Automated control systems”: it took 11 thousand sq m in the district “Sirius Park”, which is owned by Plaza Development of the deceased patron Mikhail Abramov.Elizaveta Makarova
