The office market is at the forefront of rising demand in the commercial real estate market in Minsk. Colliers International has predicted the office supply in the capital of Belarus will triple in 2008 -2009, bringing total office space from 92,200 m[sup]2[/sup] to 325,350 m[sup]2[/sup]. At the end of 2007 only two Class A business centres were in operation in the market. The vacancy rate in the city is almost zero.
Swiss real estate group Investis has boosted its real estate holdings with the CHF 139 mln (€149 mln) purchase of prime residential properties in Vaud canton.
