Budapest Sofitel changes hands
Hotelsschedule 29 November 2019
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HUNGARY Indotek Group is to buy the Sofitel hotel at the Chain Bridge in Budapest.
Retail & leisure
Romanians spent EUR 36 bln in large retail chains, an amount 11 pct higher compared with 2022, out of which the FMCG spending accounted for EUR 22.5 bln (more than 60 pct share), according to the Romania Retail Snapshot 2024 performed by the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox, based on the financial results of 116 companies from 12 different retail segments.
Material partner
Colliers, in partnership with Illyrian Land Funds, is announcing an exclusive auction for a prime development land site in Istria, Croatia. This property, covering 1,603,903 sqm, is ideal for a mixed-use resort development near Vodnjan, a charming town in Istria, Croatia's top tourist region. The site is just a 15-minute drive from the seafront
Investment & finance
Two more retail parks, Pasaż Kępiński and Pasaż Grodziski, have passed into the hands of investment fund Falcon Investment Management. Earlier, the fund acquired Pasaż Golubsko-Dobrzyński in 2022. The total value of the transaction amounts to more than PLN 150 mln.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has reached another milestone in the development of Wrocław South Logistics Hub. As a result of a new contract, one of its current tenants is to increase the size of its leased space by an additional 125,000 sqm.
Warehouse & industrial
Verne will use 28,500 sqm at VGP Park Zagreb to manufacture its urban autonomous vehicles. The first autonomous taxis produced here are expected to hit the streets of Zagreb in 2026.
Eurobuild FM
Welcome to the really hot episode of Eurobuild FM! Our editorial team visited the construction site of The Form, a unique office building, which is being built in the area of Rondo Daszyńskiego. Listen to the podcast straight from the construction site!
Residential
A new player, roomies platform, has announced its entry into the private student housing market in Poland. The new investor aims to build a portfolio of more than 2,000 units over the next five years.
Retail & leisure
Romanians spent EUR 63 mln in cinemas last year, an amount 25 pct higher compared with 2022, as ticket prices also recorded a 8.2 pct y-o-y increase, according to the data offered by the Romanian Film Center and analyzed by the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
Investment & finance
SCPI Transitions Europe managed by Arkéa Real Estate Investment Management has acquired Lastadia Office, a fully let office building located on an island by the western bank of the Oder River in Szczecin. The vendor was Greenstone Asset Management.
Warehouse & industrial
Poland remains the largest industrial and logistics market in the entire CEE-13, with modern stock amounting to more than 30 mln sqm, accounting for app. 45 pct of the region’s total - reveals Colliers recently published 'ExCEEding Borders: Navigating the Industrial Landscape and Workforce in CEE-13' report.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has completed the construction of a new production and warehouse facility for Air Spiralo in Szamotuły, near Poznań. The 9,200 sqm investment will enhance the company's production and logistics capabilities.
Retail & leisure
CBRE Romania has announced its exclusive involvement in the leasing strategy of H Știrbei Palace, a historical monument located in the heart of Bucharest. After the completion of the renovation works, Știrbei Palace aims to become a landmark shopping gallery for luxury brands in South-Eastern Europe.
Retail & leisure
Mitiska REIM has announced the opening of a new retail park in Jastrzębie Zdrój, a city of 90,000 inhabitants in southern Poland. Developed in partnership with Karuzela Holding and owned in joint-venture with the FRI 2 fund, this latest opening is the third retail park development opened in Poland by Mitiska REIM and Karuzela Holding in the past nine months.
Eurobuild FM
In the latest episode of Eurobuild FM, we talk about the specifics of the Kraków housing market with Jarosław Szanajca and Marcin Rams, the respective CEOs of Dom Development and Dom Development Kraków.
Property and Facility Management
Karimpol Polska is expanding its cooperation with CBRE. Starting in June 2024, the consultancy will be acting as the exclusive letting agent of Skyliner II office project.
Hotels
Hotel Opatija, Curio Collection by Hilton celebrates its opening. The 54-room facility debuts as the first in Croatia and the brand’s 40th trading country.
Investment & finance
Panattoni has been granted EUR 16.5 mln in financing from Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego for the development of its Panattoni Park Ruda Śląska IV project. Construction work was launched in March on 34,000 sqm of warehousing space.
Warehouse & industrial
Segro has leased 1,060 sqm in Segro Park Berlin Airport to Lyko Services. The Swedish cosmetics and online retailer intends to use the space for an initial period of 10 years.
Warehouse & industrial
The prospects for logistics and supply chain in Poland are improving. The sector's optimism index for 2024 stands at 52.2, the highest level in five years, according to the Confidence Index 2024 report by CBRE and P3.
Residential
Invest Komfort has announced the development of a new project in Gdańsk. Off Miasto is to be built on a plot of ca. 56,000 sqm, and the usable area of the flats will be almost 55,000 sqm. Construction of the first stage has already begun. The entire investment will take several years to complete.
Hotel Opatija, Curio Collection by Hilton celebrates its opening. The 54-room facility debuts as the first in Croatia and the brand’s 40th trading country.
Cloud IX, Budapest’s latest panoramic skybar, has been opened in the ibis & Tribe Budapest Stadium Hotel in the WING Liberty building. Opened last December in Budapest’s District IX, the hotel complex boasts a total of 332 rooms and a wide range of services.
IHG Hotels & Resorts and Novum Hospitality announced a long-term agreement that will double IHG’s presence in Germany to more than 200 hotels in almost 100 cities through Holiday Inn – the niu brand collaboration and European debuts for IHG’s Garner and Candlewood Suites.
CPI Property Group has sold a 50 pct stake in a subsidiary that owns eight hotel properties in the Czech Republic to Bratislava-based Best Hotel Properties (BHP), with whom it has also signed a JV agreement for the continued management of the hotels.
Radisson RED Belgrade has opened its doors as a new upscale lifestyle hotel, marking the debut of the Radisson RED brand in Southeast Europe.
The hotel market in Bucharest has experienced a moderate annual average growth in new offerings, at 0.9 pct between 2019 and 2023. This modest trend was primarily influenced by the cancellation of Urban Zoning Plans. Between 2024 and 2025, an estimated average annual growth rate of 4.1 pct in the number of rooms is expected, according to data from the real estate consulting company Cushman & Wakefield.
According to Cushman & Wakefield analysis, after a period when the Prague hotel market was lagging behind other European cities in terms of recovery from the impacts of the covid pandemics, all of its performance indicators increased significantly in 2023. The Prague hotel market proves its resilience and attractivity.
IHG Hotels & Resorts announced its first Holiday Inn & Suites property in Europe with the signing of Holiday Inn & Suites Budapest Centrale – part of its Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts brand.
Marriott International and the Dobry Hotel Group have signed an agreement to create The Luxury Collection brand's first hotel in Krakow in the historic Lubomirski Palace building.
A new hotel is being built in Kraków. It will be the seventh facility of the AccorInvest/Orbis group in the capital of Malopolska under the Accor brand in the lifestyle segment. The hotel is scheduled to open in Q2 2025.
Marriott Bonvoy's Autograph Collection Hotels brand is making its debut in Hungary with the opening of its first hotel in Budapest. The Dorothea Hotel is housed in three historic buildings and is named after Archduchess Dorothea, who contributed to the city's development in the 19th century.
One United Properties has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ennismore for opening Mondrian Bucharest, a highly exclusive lifestyle hotel in downtown Bucharest.
Canopy by Hilton Warsaw, the first lifestyle hotel of the Hilton chain in Poland, is to open in 2025 in the centre of the city.
Local developer Wing in cooperation with Budapest Ferenc Liszt Airport has begun the construction of the Tribe hotel at the airport.
Hampton by Hilton Budapest City Centre, the country's first hotel under the Hampton by Hilton brand, has opened in Budapest.
AC Hotels by Marriott, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio of 31 brands, has announced its brand debut in Croatia with the opening of AC Hotel by Marriott Split. The new hotel is housed on the high floors of the 135-metre-high Westgate Tower with spectacular views of the Adriatic Sea and Split’s unique cityscape.
In Cushman & Wakefield’s latest Hotel Operator Beat survey, Budapest was placed as the most attractive market in CEE, reaching 4.3 points on a 1–5 scale where 5 means very high interest. Prague is a little step down with 4.2 points, and Warsaw, Kraków and Bucharest complete the top 5 markets targeted by hotel operators.
The opening has taken place of the Ibis Styles Warsaw Airport hotel, which is situated about 3.5 km from Fryderyk Chopin Airport in Warsaw.
Marriott International has signed an agreement with Valdarke to open an Autograph Collection resort on the isle of Cres in Croatia. The hotel will be the international brand's first on the island.
Aro Palace, whose majority shareholder is investment fund Transilvania Investments, has sold the Coroana-Postăvaru Hotel in Braşov in central Romania to Elevate Properties for EUR 9.367 mln.
In Winogrady district of Poznań, the construction of the Aura residential building, designed by Robert Konieczny's office KWK Promes, has begun. The f ...
In Berlin Hyp’s most recent Trendbarometer, more than 200 real estate professionals expressed their opinions on opportunities and risks in the real e ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
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 reg ...
Polish businessman, investor and philanthropist, Robert Dobrzycki, has set up a new charity. The mission of the Robert Dobrzycki Foundation is to help ...
Eurobuild Awards 2023 is behind us, but if you haven't yet gotten your hands on the special "Eurobuild" supplement prepared for the Gala evening, you ...
The final issue of the magazine before the summer holidays has just hit the shelves and the internet! On its pages you can read all about unconvention ...
Welcome to the really hot episode of Eurobuild FM! Our editorial team visited the construction site of The Form, a unique office building, which is be ...
This year's edition of the JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament will take place on 1 August at the Monta Beach Volley Club in Warsaw. Funds raised ...
After a long break, we invite you to hot episode of the "Eye to eye" podcast! Today we talk with Władysław Grochowski, the head and founder of Arche.
The UN Nansen Refugee Award award will go to Poland for the first time. According to the office of the UNHCR High Commissioner this year's regional wi ...
Czech developer CTP has been granted a EUR 200 mln loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out of its large-scale solar panel installation ...
Hotel Opatija, Curio Collection by Hilton celebrates its opening. The 54-room facility debuts as the first in Croatia and the brand’s 40th trading cou ...
Kamil Kowa has become the new CEO of Savills in Poland. He is a member of the management board of the company, and for the past nine years has held th ...
The investment programme until 2030 worth more than PLN 1.5 bln has been approved for Katowice's Wojciech Korfanty Airport. The programme will include ...
Designers from Colliers, under the supervision of architect Kateřina Štenclova, prepared the concept for the Mercedes-Benz headquarters in Prague. The ...
Two more retail parks, Pasaż Kępiński and Pasaż Grodziski, have passed into the hands of investment fund Falcon Investment Management. Earlier, the fu ...
CTP has expanded its Polish land bank by nearly half a million sqm. The company has purchased investment land in four locations that provide the oppor ...
Colliers, in partnership with Illyrian Land Funds, is announcing an exclusive auction for a prime development land site in Istria, Croatia. This prope ...
IT and outsourcing supplier Natek has opened a new 600 sqm office in the Infinity building in Wrocław.
Karimpol Polska is expanding its cooperation with CBRE. Starting in June 2024, the consultancy will be acting as the exclusive letting agent of Skylin ...
Echo Investment and its subsidiary Archicom have started the construction of a primary school for 450 pupils on ul. Konstruktorska in the Służewiec su ...
A new player, roomies platform, has announced its entry into the private student housing market in Poland. The new investor aims to build a portfolio ...
Romanians spent EUR 36 bln in large retail chains, an amount 11 pct higher compared with 2022, out of which the FMCG spending accounted for EUR 22.5 b ...
The Symbiosy smart building platform developed in-house by Slovakian developer HB Reavis has been acquired by Massachusetts-based real estate experien ...
Panattoni has reached another milestone in the development of Wrocław South Logistics Hub. As a result of a new contract, one of its current tenants i ...
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