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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Hotels

POLAND Griffin and Primestar join forces

schedule 23 June 2026
Opr./edited by NN

Warsaw-based private equity investment manager Griffin Capital Partners and Berlin-based hospitality operator Primestar Group have launched Prime Griffin Hotels, a 50/50 JV to build a Polish hotel platform.

Retail & leisure

Poland More tenants for Soho by Yareal

schedule 23 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Yareal Polska continues to expand the retail tenant mix for its flagship, mixed-use complex in Warsaw's Praga Południe district. SOHO by Yareal now includes a Maxi Zoo pet store, the Alike Pottery Studio, and the Unroasted coffee store. Under the new agreements, Yareal has leased nearly 500 sqm on the ground floors of the buildings.

Construction

POLAND Budimex wins foundational contract for CPK

schedule 23 June 2026
Opr./edited by NN

Budimex has been awarded a PLN 146 mln contract to construct the foundations of the passenger terminal of the new airport that forms part of the massive Port of Poland (or CPK) transport hub, which is being developed between Warsaw and Łódź.

Investment & finance

POLAND Welcome loan for Wita

schedule 23 June 2026
Opr./edited by NN

Echo Investment has signed a loan agreement with Bank Pekao to finance its Wita mixed-use complex, which is being developed on a 3 ha site in central Kraków. The financing includes a five-year construction and investment loan and a VAT loan totalling EUR 36.4 mln.

Residential

Poland Neighbourhood becoming more important in home purchases

schedule 23 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

According to 'The Living 2040' report, today's residents are more aware, pragmatic, and demanding of the place they live.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni to begin work on Panattoni Park Kraków West IV

schedule 23 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Panattoni, together with Eika Asset Management, an investment management company, have begun the development of Panattoni Park Kraków West IV. The centre, comprising over 46,000 sqm, will be built in Skawina, within the Kraków metropolitan area. The first tenant, a retailer of wooden panelling, will occupy nearly 17,000 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Work to start on MLP Rzeszów

schedule 23 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

MLP Group has started construction work on MLP Rzeszów, a new logistics park in southeastern Poland. The project is being developed on a speculative basis.

Events

Poland Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move

schedule 23 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

More than 70 representatives of the Polish logistics real estate market participated in the third edition of EQT on the Move: Ride the Lakes. The event brought together tenants, warehouse developers, real estate advisors, business partners, along with their families, in an informal setting designed to strengthen industry relationships. Participants cycled selected sections of the Masurian Cycling Loop between 12 and 14 June. Eurobuild was the media patron for the event.

Infrastructure

Slovakia Budimex builds in Slovakia

schedule 22 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Budimex has handed over the motorway junction of the D1 and D4 roads in Slovakia, 90 days ahead of the deadline specified by the consgtruction contract.

Investment & finance

Mood improves over office sector

schedule 22 June 2026
Opr./edited by NN

European lenders are optimistic about H2 2026, despite ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, while sentiment around the office sector has significantly improved, according to CBRE's latest European Lender Intentions Survey. Lenders are also open to financing properties in alternative sectors.

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND Brenntag in Brama Miasta B

schedule 22 June 2026
Opr./edited by NN

German chemical raw materials distributor Brenntag has opened its EMEA shared services centre in Brama Miasta B in Łódź, which is owned by Skanska Commercial Development Europe.

Retail & leisure

POLAND New Yorker arrives in Jędrzejów

schedule 22 June 2026
Opr./edited by NN

Fashion brand. New Yorker is to open a 1,300 sqm store in Galeria Sekunda in Jędzrejów, about 35 km south of Kielce in southern Poland.

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND WITA welcomes OPmobility

schedule 22 June 2026
Opr./edited by NN

Sustainable automotive parts supplier OPmobility has leased over 4,200 sqm of office space in building B of the Wita multifunctional complex n Kraków.

Office & mixed-use development

CEE Region Rents rising with limited supply

schedule 22 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

While demand for high-quality office space remains stable, record-low new construction has led to an unprecedentedly low supply across the CEE region’s six largest office markets: Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Bratislava and Sofia. This is creating upward pressure on rents for modern and sustainable buildings while also increasing the need to modernise older office stock, according to the latest ‘CEE Offices 2026 Report’, published by Colliers.

Residential

Europe Warsaw fourth most unaffordable European city

schedule 22 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Warsaw ranks as the fourth least affordable capital for a single person, with essential monthly expenses, including housing, food, transport, personal care and leisure, totalling EUR 1,836. With the average net salary standing at EUR 1,911, these costs absorb 96.1 pct of typical earnings, leaving residents with just EUR 74 per month. Only Lisbon, Tirana, and Athens offer worse affordability among the 37 capital cities surveyed by Tradingpedia.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Sonko extends its lease

schedule 22 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Cereals company Sonko has extended its 22,000 sqm lease in Prologis Park Wrocław. The company has been a tenant in the park since 2007.

Retail & leisure

Poland Looking good and feeling good in Norblin Factory

schedule 19 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

The Norblin Factory is expanding its offerings for those seeking health, fitness, and beauty services. The latest tenant in the complex is KNOX – Poland's first boutique HIIT fitness centre, which occupies an area of 420 sqm.

ESG

Poland Punkt goes Platinum

schedule 19 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

The Punkt office building in Gdańsk has been awarded LEED v4 Platinum certification. This is the first Torus Group development certified under this version of the system and the developer's eighth building in Gdańsk with the highest environmental rating.

Exclusive
Data centres

Poland Poland to be the new data hub

schedule 19 June 2026
Maksymilian Fiszer

During the presentation of the 'Driving the Economy: The Economic Impact of the Data Centre Sector in Poland' report, we took the opportunity to speak with Piotr Kowalski, Managing Director at PLDCA, about the risks and future development of data centres in Poland.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Holcim builds in Bielawy

schedule 19 June 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Holcim Polska has begun construction of an Aggregate Production Plant in Bielawy, on the premises of a limestone mine owned by the Kujawy Cement Plant. This PLN 98 mln project represents the company's largest investment in the aggregates segment.

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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