AFI Europe has signed a letter of intent to acquire NEPI Rockcastle’s office portfolio in Romania. AFI will begin carrying out due diligence operations on NEPI’s four office buildings, which are estimated to be worth about 309 million Euro.

NEPI Rockcastle, a South African company, has already sold The Office building in Cluj-Napoca, which it co-owned with entrepreneur Ovidiu Sandor, to Dedeman, for 120 million Euro.

The other four office buildings in NEPI Rockcastle’s portfolio are Floreasca Business Park (36,300 sqm), City Business Centre Timisoara (47,000 sqm), The Lakeview Bucharest (25,600 sqm), and Victoriei Offices (7,800 sqm).

The letter of intent gives AFI Europe exclusivity for due diligence on the four buildings, but the purchase will be subject to additional conditions. If the transaction were to go through, AFI Europe would become the second biggest office building owner after Globalworth, approaching 210,000 sqm. It already owns 92,000 sqm of offices in AFI Park and AFI Tech Park in Bucharest.