Airbnb modifies its practices

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EUROPE The European Commission has announced that, as a result of negotiations with Airbnb, the platform has improved and fully clarified the accommodation and pricing offered to consumers on its site so that its standards meet EU consumer law.
“Comparing and booking hotels and accommodation online has become fast and easy for consumers. Now consumers can also trust that the price they see on the first page will be the price to pay in the end. I am completely satisfied that Airbnb has fully cooperated with the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities to improve the way its platform works. I expect other platforms to follow suit,” said Věra Jourová, the European commissioner for justice, consu
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Investment & finance

Poland Arkady Wrocławskie sold

schedule 30 June 2025
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Develia has signed a sales agreement with Vastint Poland for the Arkady Wrocławskie mixed-use building for EUR 42.967 mln.

Events

Poland Race'N'Raise supports rural children's education

schedule 30 June 2025
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Logicor has raised over PLN 40,000 in the 4th Race'n'Raise charity cycle race to support the EFC Foundation's Horizons Scholarship Program.

Investment & finance

Poland Stena buys two High5ive buildings

schedule 30 June 2025
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Swedish real estate company Stena is to acquire two LEED Platinum-certified office buildings in the High5ive complex in Kraków.

Human resources

Poland Five new board members at JLL

schedule 27 June 2025
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Five new members are joining JLL's management board, and will take on their new roles from the beginning of July.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Work begins on Westside Szczecin Neo by LemonTree

schedule 27 June 2025
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LemonTree has launched Westside Szczecin Neo by LemonTree, its second project in Szczecin. The centre will provide 34,000 sqm of warehouse and office space. Around half has already been leased.

Retail & leisure

Poland M Park opens in Ropczyce

schedule 27 June 2025
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M Core subsidiary LCP Poland has officially opened M Park Ropczyce 35 km from Rzeszów.

Office & mixed-use development

Romania Equilibrium 2 awarded WiredScore Platinum certification

schedule 27 June 2025
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Skanska’s Equilibrium 2 building in Bucharest has been awarded the highest-level WiredScore certification for an operational building.

Warehouse & industrial

Romania eLog comes to CTPark Bucharest North

schedule 27 June 2025
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eLog, a Balkan-based provider of reusable transport packaging systems for the retail sector, has leased 4,000 sqm of modern warehouse and office space in CTPark Bucharest North.

Residential

Poland Noli Studios Gdansk Old Town unveiled

schedule 27 June 2025
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Noli Studios is to open its latest project in the Tricity in July. The Czerwone Koszary barracks has been transformed into a PRS project with hotel services.

Investment & finance

Poland Sale and leaseback for Cavatina Hall

schedule 27 June 2025
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Cavatina Holding has signed a sale and leaseback agreement with BPS Leasing for over EUR 22 mln for the Cavatina Hall, building A in Bielsko-Biała.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland PZU stays in Konstruktorska

schedule 26 June 2025
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Three subsidiaries of PZU Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the CEE region, have extended their leases in Konstruktorska Business Center in Warsaw for another 10 years.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Warehouse market slows

schedule 26 June 2025
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Total take-up reached 1.11 mln sqm, up 16 pct year-on-year according to the ‘At A Glance: Industrial and Logistics Market in Poland, Q1 2025’ report by BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland.

Retail & leisure

Czech Republic Sixteen brands enter the market

schedule 26 June 2025
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Sixteen brands entered the Czech retail market in the first six months of this year.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Avides comes to Panattoni Park Lublin II

schedule 25 June 2025
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Avides, a leading European distributor of remarketed goods, has leased over 16,000 sqm of modern warehouse space at Panattoni Park Lublin II.

Investment & finance

Hungary Budapest Marriott sold

schedule 25 June 2025
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The Budapest Marriott Hotel has changed hands with CPI Europe selling the hotel in open tender to BDPST Group and Diorit Private Equity Fund managed by Gránit Asset Management.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Paul Schockemöhle doubles up in Opole

schedule 25 June 2025
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Paul Schockemöhle Logistics Polska has extended its current lease and simultaneously doubled its area in Opole.

Warehouse & industrial

Czech Republic CTP builds a two-storey facility

schedule 25 June 2025
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CTP has begun construction on the first two-storey industrial & logistics building în the Czech Republic în CTPark Brno Líšeň.

Office & mixed-use development

Europe Office sizes growing

schedule 25 June 2025
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Around 40 pct of office building occupiers require employees to work from the office 2 or 3 days per week, while 1 in 8 tenants is planning to expand its office footprint. These are among the key findings of the “What Occupiers Want 2025” report, based on a global survey conducted by the Cushman & Wakefield real estate consultancy company.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Ikea opens up its showroom

schedule 24 June 2025
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Ikea has now opened its showroom in the .KTW complex.

Retail & leisure

Poland Karuzela to grow

schedule 24 June 2025
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A major expansion is planned for the Karuzela retail park in Lubliniec.

Latest in E-commerce

schedule 12 January 2023

This is the end

Shopee is ending its operations in Poland. The Asian e-commerce platform, which debuted in Poland in 2021, intends to focus on operations in other regions of the world.

schedule 22 September 2020

Wildberries now growing in Ukraine

Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.

schedule 21 May 2020

Wildberries growing in April

POLAND Wildberries, the Russian online retailer that debuted on the Polish market in January, has revealed some of its initial Polish sales figures.

schedule 12 May 2020

Wildberries growing in Slovakia

SLOVAKIA Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, has entered the Slovakian market. The company has also anounced that it is considering investing EUR 200 mln in the development of a distribution centre in the country.

schedule 18 March 2020

E-commerce set to accelerate with Coronavirus

POLAND Cushman & Wakefield is cautious about predicting how the coronavirus pandemic will change online shopping habits but notes that many Polish companies are expecting a massive increase in their online orders.

schedule 30 January 2020

How much CO2 does your fashion sense generate?

WORLD Online second had clothes store Thredup store has created a Fashion Footprint Calculator to calculate the carbon footprint of your purchasing habits.

schedule 04 October 2019

A thousand new DHL Parcel pick-up points

POLAND DHL Parcel will this year have opened 1,000 new locations for despatching and collecting courier parcels.

schedule 26 September 2019

Logistics firms feeling the heat from e-commerce

POLAND According to the recent ‘Supply Chain for E-commerce. How to Meet the Challenges’ report published by DHL Supply Chain, most logistics companies in the contract logistics sector have yet to implement a strategy for the online retail segment.

schedule 28 August 2019

E-commerce is still a big challenge

WORLD Majority of companies have failed to fully implement an e-commerce strategy despite recognizing its importance, according to DHL’s global survey of nearly 900 decision-makers responsible for logistics or supply chain management and e-commerce.

schedule 29 July 2019

Hebe hits the net

POLAND Drugstore chain Hebe has officially launched its online store. Orders across Poland are delivered by courier. In Warsaw, parcels can also be picked up free of charge also in a chosen Hebe store.

schedule 18 July 2019

Airbnb modifies its practices

EUROPE The European Commission has announced that, as a result of negotiations with Airbnb, the platform has improved and fully clarified the accommodation and pricing offered to consumers on its site so that its standards meet EU consumer law.

schedule 17 July 2019

Europe points its big guns at Amazon

EUROPE The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon's use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on its marketplace is in breach of EU competition rules.

schedule 16 April 2019

Lidl goes online in Poland

POLAND Lidl is to launch an online store for Poland – lidl-sklep.pl.

schedule 23 January 2019

Chamber for e-commerce

POLAND The Polish Chamber of Digital Commerce (e-Izba) has set up the Retailers Group e-Chamber to support companies who operate in e-commerce and omnichannel sales or are planning to start a business in this sector.

schedule 05 November 2018

Polish online retailers looking to go global

POLAND Around 24 pct of Polish online retailers are currently considering foreign expansion claims the ‘The Challenges of E-commerce’ report prepared by the Kronenberg Foundation at Citi Handlowy.

schedule 26 September 2018

Shopping with a robot salesman

POLAND A Wrocław start-up has created a chatbot to sell and recommend goods to shoppers.

schedule 25 September 2018

Internet traders running up debt

POLAND According to BIG InfoMonitor data, the debts of e-commerce traders came to PLN 126 mln at the end of June this year, up 19 pct on the end of 2017.

schedule 14 September 2018

Zara reorganises online sales

WORLD The Zara store chain is to complete and send out online orders directly from its brick and mortar stores. The Spanish-based Inditex group, which owns the Zara brand, believes it can make online orders easier for shoppers by processing individual orders in their stores. Whenever a product is unavailable online, but can be found in stock at a local store, it can be ordered immediately with home delivery.

schedule 06 September 2018

True innovation from Marks & Spencer

WORLD Marks & Spencer has partnered with True, which operates in the new-tech segment, to focuses on innovation and digital transformation.

schedule 26 July 2018

Almost half of Poles yet to embrace e-commerce

POLAND According to this year’s ‘E-commerce in Poland. Gemius for e-Commerce Poland’ report by Gemius, 44 pct of Polish internet users have yet to make any purchases on the internet.

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