Analysis-Investors eye a new market in Central Europe: homes for rent

By Canan Sevgili, Jason Hovet and Gergely Szakacs GDANSK, Poland/PRAGUE (Reuters) – With rising interest rates and limited supply putting home ownership out of reach for a growing number of people in emerging Europe, global and local real estate investors are placing bets on the region’s nascent private rented sector. From almost nothing five years ago, the institutional residential property market has grown to the point where investors say housing is starting to challenge office buildings as a focus for their cash. “There are many large cities in the central European region with positive demo…

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