Real estate in Riga
Real estate is the largest sector in Riga by foreign investor count and the second largest by investment volume. Roughly €3 billion of announced development is in progress or planning across four major quarters.
1,545
foreign investors in real estate, 11% of the total
Lursoft · 2025
€1.16bn
foreign investment volume in real estate, 12% of the total
Lursoft · 2025
€16-19
Class A office, per m² per month
Colliers · Q3 2025
Market position
Real estate activities account for 1,545 of Riga's 14,015 foreign investors - the largest single sector by investor count - and €1.16 billion of the €10.11 billion invested, second only to the financial sector.
Colliers characterises the current phase directly: nearly 90% of the 2025 office pipeline was delivered by mid-year, and a growing speculative pipeline is set to increase vacancy and prompt landlords to offer more incentives to secure tenants. Take-up in the first half of 2025 exceeded 20,000 m², within the annual range of 40,000-50,000 m² but around 20% below the same period in 2024, with demand dominated by smaller tenants of 200-400 m² seeking move-in-ready space. Colliers also reports that new supply is slowing after this wave, with the next expected only in 2027-2028.
Read plainly: this is a market absorbing supply, not one starving for it. The opportunity is in timing and in the districts, not in a general shortage.
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The numbers
| Segment | Rent | Vacancy |
|---|---|---|
| Class A office | €16-19 per m² per month | 18-19% |
| Class B1 office | €11-15 per m² per month | 16-17% |
| Retail, shopping centres | €23-40 per m² per month | 4.3% |
| Warehouse | €4.40-5.40 per m² per month | 4.7% |
Colliers, Riga Economic Profile 2026 · Q3 2025
Active pipeline
| Project | Scale | Status | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riga Waterfront | 57 ha, up to €3 billion, ~30,000 residents, 8,000 homes | in development | - |
| Krasta City | 180,000 m² total, over €200 million; phase 1 is 19,000 m² office | phased | Hepsor |
| Kimmel Quarter | 38,000 m² total, 34,000 m² office | completion 2028 | Eastnine |
| Preses Nama Quarter | 11-storey Class A for 2,500+ staff, BREEAM Excellent, nZEB; 7,500 m² retail | phased | - |
| Magdelēnas Quarter | phase 2, 11,200 m² office completed 2025; ~300 apartments and 20,000+ m² commercial planned | phases 4-5 in design | Vastint Latvia |
| Verde, phases III and IV | 23,000 m² Class A, Skanste | announced 2025 | Capitalica |
| Tērbatas dārzi | over €120 million, ~800 apartments | first building Q4 2026, all by 2032 | Estera Development |
Districts
Skanste is Riga's modern centre and its fastest-growing district - 214.8 hectares, currently around 19,000 residents and jobs against a potential 40,000, hosting New Hanza Offices, Elemental Business Centre, Skanstes City, VERDE, Place Eleven, Rietumu banka, Luminor, Jupiter and S27, plus the new premises of the International School of Riga. A large new park with rainwater collection infrastructure opened there in 2025. Colliers describes Skanste as Riga's most preferred office district.
Granīta street and Šķirotava is the designated priority area for resource-intensive manufacturing.
The historic centre has a municipal programme underway covering engineering networks, public realm and traffic reorganisation.
Infrastructure that changes land values
Rail Baltica, with 265 km in Latvia and a station integrated into RIX Airport City. RIX Airport City itself - 24 hectares beside the airport, with a new terminal due in 2029 designed for up to 12 million passengers a year. The Northern transport corridor, a planned 30 km west-east expressway bypassing the historic centre. The Kundziņsala overpass, an 800-metre bridge due for completion in 2027. South Bridge phase four, due 2027. Vanšu Bridge reconstruction, starting 2027 and due by end-2028.
What applies to you
Real estate is a named development priority for the city, which states that it provides targeted support, streamlined procedures and incentives for developers. Up to 90% real estate tax reduction for qualifying Riga projects. Green Corridor fast-tracking for strategic investments, with a single named curator coordinating across city departments. Riga also reports the largest public-private partnership housing project in its history now underway.
What we don't publish
Total office stock in m² by class. Land prices by district. Construction cost benchmarks. Planning and permit timelines. Yields. Colliers notes an ongoing imbalance between construction costs and rental growth that continues to affect developer decisions - the underlying figures are in paid broker reports and we do not reproduce paid research. For live market data, Colliers, Newsec and CBRE all publish Baltic overviews.
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Sources
Colliers Baltic Property Snapshot Q1-Q3 2025 · Lursoft · Riga Economic Profile 2026 · developer announcements as named
Last checked: 17 August 2026