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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Poland Yareal upgrades ul. Żupnicza near SOHO by Yareal in Warsaw

schedule 07 October 2026
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Yareal has started work on ul. Żupnicza in Warsaw’s Kamionek district. The section between ul. Bliska and ul. Chodakowska will get a new road surface, renovated pavements and one-way cycle lanes on both sides of the road.

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Poland The FORM builds on proven performance at Rondo Daszyńskiego

schedule 09 September 2026

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Poland Totalbud completes Mirabelki 5 residential development in Warsaw

schedule 07 October 2026
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Totalbud has completed construction of the Mirabelki 5 residential development in Warsaw’s Białołęka district. The project on Mirabelki Street has received its occupancy permit. Totalbud acted as both developer and general contractor.

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Poland Data centres could supply more heat to Polish cities

schedule 07 October 2026
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Poland’s growing data centre market could create a significant new source of waste heat for heating networks. According to analysis by the Polish Data Centre Association, if the market continues to expand, recovered heat from data centres could equal more than 7 pct of the heat currently supplied to Poland’s district heating networks by 2030. By 2035, that figure could reach 16 pct.

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Poland Alior Bank opens in Manufaktura in Łódź

schedule 07 October 2026
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Alior Bank has opened a new branch at Manufaktura shopping centre in Łódź, introducing its new branch concept to the region for the first time. The format combines face-to-face advice with digital services. It is also the only bank branch in the region open for extended hours and on trading Sundays.

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Poland Marcotran renews warehouse lease near Poznań

schedule 07 October 2026
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Marcotran has renewed its lease for around 3,500 sqm of warehouse space in Koninko, near Poznań. Newmark Polska represented the tenant during the lease renegotiation.

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Poland Archicom launches sales of Bliskie Piątkowo housing project in Poznań

schedule 07 October 2026
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Archicom has launched sales at its Bliskie Piątkowo residential development on Mateckiego Street in Poznań. The first phase will include 167 apartments ranging from around 25 to 92 sqm. Once complete, the project is expected to comprise around 360 apartments with a total usable area of more than 19,000 sqm.

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Poland Łódź housing market enters a new phase as buyers gain more choice

schedule 07 October 2026
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Łódź’s housing market has entered a new phase. After years of rising prices, buyers now have one of the widest selections of new homes the city has seen, while developers are competing on more than just price and location. Architecture, design and the quality of the overall project are becoming increasingly important.

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Poland Bucharest office demand picks up as companies rethink their workplace needs

schedule 07 October 2026
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New office leasing demand reached more than 93,000 sqm in the first nine months of 2026, up 6 pct year-on-year, while 72 pct of transactions involved buildings within 500 metres of a metro station

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Poland Fun Park to open in Ferio Legnica

schedule 06 October 2026
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Poland Murapol launches Stoczniova sales

schedule 06 October 2026
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Poland eService leases 7,500 sqm in Drucianka Campus

schedule 06 October 2026
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schedule 06 October 2026
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Develia has completed the ninth stage of Aleje Praskie on ul. Podskarbińska in Warsaw’s Praga-Południe district. The five-storey building contains 89 apartments ranging from 33 to more than 82 sqm. The development will eventually comprise 1,572 apartments.

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schedule 06 October 2026
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Poland LemonTree sells second stage of Booster Zabrze

schedule 06 October 2026
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schedule 06 October 2026
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Austria MLP Business Park Vienna welcomes two new tenants

schedule 06 October 2026
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schedule 06 October 2026
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schedule 05 October 2026
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schedule 05 October 2026
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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