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, consumers and gende
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Warehouse & industrial

Poland Harden Construction starts work on City Logistics Łódź V

schedule 28 September 2026
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Harden Construction has started work on City Logistics Łódź V, an urban logistics and production facility for Panattoni in Łódź. The project will provide space for tenants including PGC and Zadbano.

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Poland The FORM builds on proven performance at Rondo Daszyńskiego

schedule 09 September 2026

With occupier demand increasingly focused on prime, well-located buildings, Warsaw’s office market is becoming more selective. Around Rondo Daszyńskiego, one of the city’s most established business locations, this trend is particularly visible. The FORM is among the office assets benefiting from this shift: since opening in early 2025, it has become fully leased, attracted a diversified mix of public- and private-sector occupiers, and demonstrated substantial day-to-day use. Its performance to date, combined with the continued evolution of the surrounding district, reinforces its position as a trophy office asset.

Residential

Poland Monting Development starts construction of CU-Cynamonowa Ursynów in Warsaw

schedule 28 September 2026
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Monting Development has secured the final building permit for CU-Cynamonowa Ursynów, a residential project in Warsaw’s Ursynów district. Construction is due to start in early October.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Demographics to reshape Poland’s office market by 2035

schedule 28 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Demographic change will make Poland’s office market more concentrated and selective over the next decade, with location, quality and flexibility becoming increasingly important. According to JLL, the resilience of office buildings through 2035 will increasingly depend on the concentration of talent in major cities, an ageing workforce, growing recruitment pressure and the ability of offices to accommodate multigenerational teams.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Aliaxis Polska chooses Sky Tower

schedule 28 September 2026
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Aliaxis Poland has chosen Sky Tower in Wrocław as the location for its shared services centre supporting the EMEA region. The company is moving from a serviced office into its own dedicated space.

Office & mixed-use development

Romania Itility opens first Romanian office in Palas Campus

schedule 28 September 2026
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Dutch IT consultancy Itility has opened its first Romanian office in Palas Campus in Iași, taking space at the office project developed by IULIUS. The company plans to grow its local team to 100 employees.

Warehouse & industrial

Romania Romstal takes 24,000 sqm

schedule 28 September 2026
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CTP has signed a 24,400 sqm lease with Romstal at CTPark Bucharest South, strengthening the Romanian logistics developer’s portfolio in one of the country’s key distribution hubs.

ESG

Poland PAD RES to construct three solar farms

schedule 28 September 2026
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PAD RES Group has secured PLN 192.5 mln in long-term financing from UniCredit to fund the construction and operation of three photovoltaic farms in Poland with a combined capacity of 133 MW.

Investment & finance

CEE Uniqa launches EUR 600 mln fund

schedule 28 September 2026
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UNIQA Real Estate is launching a EUR 600 mln office real estate fund for third-party investors, targeting Core and Core Plus properties in Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic.

Residential

Poland Nova Wola Park receives occupancy permit

schedule 25 September 2026
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The first stage of Nova Wola Park in Nowa Wola near Warsaw has received its occupancy permit. CK Development has started handing over apartments and keys to buyers, while sales of the second stage are underway.

Retail & leisure

Poland Primark to open first store in Podlaskie

schedule 25 September 2026
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Primark is preparing to open a store in G City Biała in Białystok. The nearly 3,500 sqm store will be the retailer’s first in the Podlaskie region.

Retail & leisure

Poland HDREY opens first Katowice store

schedule 25 September 2026
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Polish cosmetics brand HDREY has opened its first store in Katowice, at Silesia City Center. It is also the brand’s first store in the Silesian region.

Residential

Czech Republic Sandberg Capital enters Prague residential market

schedule 25 September 2026
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Slovak investment company Sandberg Capital is investing in the Rezidence Hausmannova residential project in Prague’s Modřany district. The developer has secured a building permit and plans to start construction and apartment sales in October.

Construction

Poland Mirbud wins PLN 168 mln contract for Warsaw sports hall

schedule 25 September 2026
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Mirbud has signed a contract with Warsaw University of Technology to build a sports and events hall next to the Syrenka Stadium in Warsaw. The design-and-build contract is worth more than PLN 168 mln.

Investment & finance

Hungary Skanska to sell second stage of H2Offices in Budapest to ERSTE fund

schedule 25 September 2026
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Skanska has agreed to sell the second stage of its H₂Offices complex in Budapest to the ERSTE Open-Ended Real Estate Investment Fund, represented by ERSTE Alapkezelő Zrt. It will be the fund’s sixth office acquisition from Skanska in Hungary.

Investment & finance

Poland AYA Properties Fund and Curtis Group acquire Chmielna 13A

schedule 25 September 2026
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A joint venture between Belgian real estate investor AYA Properties Fund and Polish family-owned Curtis Group has acquired Chmielna 13A, a fully let mixed-use property in central Warsaw, from CPI Property Group. The deal marks AYA’s third Warsaw investment, following Metron in 2024 and Sienna Center in 2026.

Investment & finance

Poland Hillwood sells four logistics properties for EUR 150 mln

schedule 25 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Hillwood Polska has sold a portfolio of four logistics properties for EUR 150 mln. The portfolio comprises nearly 200,000 sqm of warehouse and office space across major logistics markets in Poland.

Residential

Poland Archicom signs PLN 87 mln contract for Poznań housing project

schedule 24 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Archicom has signed an agreement with Unibep for the construction of the first two buildings at its Kolektyw residential project in Poznań. The contract is worth around PLN 87 mln net and covers 278 apartments. Construction is scheduled to start in Q4 2026 and finish in Q2 2028.

ESG

World BRE launches BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out V7

schedule 24 September 2026
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The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has launched the seventh version of its BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out Commercial standard (BREEAM RFO V7), updating the guidelines for refurbishment and fit-out works in existing commercial buildings. The new version places greater emphasis on reducing carbon emissions, improving energy efficiency, strengthening climate resilience and protecting the long-term value of property assets.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Prime space comes harder to find

schedule 24 September 2026
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Price is no longer the only issue in Warsaw office negotiations. Finding the right space is becoming a challenge in its own right, with vacancy in the city centre falling to 4.8 pct and to 3.6 pct around Rondo Daszyńskiego. With demand holding up and little new space coming onto the market, the best offices are being taken up quickly.

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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