Coronavirus hits retail sector
Coronavirusschedule 24 March 2020
POLAND According to figures from the Retail Institute from March 2nd to March 8th, 2020, shopping centre footfall fell by 5.6 pct compared to 2019.
Warehouse & industrial
7R and EQT Exeter will jointly develop a modern logistics park near Prague. The 56,000 sqm investment will consist of two buildings located along the D8 highway, which serves the Greater Prague area.
Retail & leisure
According to Trends Radar. Real Estate: From Stabilisation To Optimism, the latest report from Cushman & Wakefield, in 2024, Poland came second in Europe in terms of new retail supply, surpassed only by France.
Office & mixed-use development
The Małopolska Centre of Entrepreneurship will move into the GTC Newton building, which is part of the Korona Office Complex. The institution will occupy an area of over 3,000 sqm.
Retail & leisure
According to BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland latest report “At a Glance: Modern Retail Market in Poland, Q3 2024”, predictions of the imminent decline of shopping centres in Poland have proven premature. In Q3 2024, the Polish retail market expanded by another 116,000 sqm.
Hotels
The St. Regis Belgrade hotel, the brand's first property in Serbia, has begun operating in Belgrade. It is located in the 42-storey high-rise Belgrade Tower (Kula Beograd), built at the meeting point of the Sava and Danube rivers.
Warehouse & industrial
According to Savills' analysis of the industrial real estate market in the Czech Republic, lease renegotiations, or the extension of older lease agreements in existing premises, have become a significant part of the warehouse and manufacturing real estate market.
Investment & finance
Panattoni has secured a EUR 75 mln loan from Citibank (London Branch). The funds are intended to finance the Panattoni Park Sulechów III investment.
Infrastructure
The Warsaw - Łódź stretch will be the first section of the High Speed Railway in Poland. It is on this route that a new station will be built in Brzeziny, a district town hitherto deprived of any access to rail transport.
Warehouse & industrial
Lynka, a European supplier of branded apparel, has extended its lease of 9,000 sqm of warehouse, manufacturing, office and social space in Panattoni Park Kraków IV.
Investment & finance
Fond Českého Bydlení (the Czech Housing Fund) has successfully completed the acquisition of two apartment buildings located in Beroun and Chomutov. This transaction adds 313 fully rented apartments to the company's portfolio.
Eurobuild CEE
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Hotels
Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego has granted a loan of up to EUR 40 mln to the Hungarian company from the Puro Group. The financing will be used for the construction of a four-star premium hotel in the centre of Budapest.
Public buildings
The University of Warsaw has signed a contract with the general contractor for a project at ul. Bednarska 2/4. The new building will house the faculties of Journalism, Information and Bibliology and Economic Sciences, as well as the Academic Campus Radio. Construction work will begin at the end of November.
Investment & finance
Savills IM has let the last vacant rental space of the European Logistics Fund 2 (ELF 2) in a logistics property in Konotopa, Poland, on a long-term lease.
Investment & finance
Panattoni has been awarded a pioneering green loan from Berlin Hyp worth EUR 74.34 mln. The financing is for a logistics center in Bydgoszcz developed for an e-commerce firm.
Residential
YIT continues to grow in line with its strategy in the CEE countries. The company is expanding its operations in the Czech Republic and establishes a joint venture with the Czech investor group RSJ Investments.
Investment & finance
Vantage Development's Polish subsidiaries have secured a EUR 100 mln loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The TAG Immobilien-owned developer and operator will use the funds raised to expand its PRS investments in Poland.
Hotels
Mercure, a brand of the Accor Group, announces the opening of its first hotel in Bulgaria. The new property is located in one of Sofia's most prestigious districts, Manastirski Livadi, with easy access to the National History Museum and Vitosha National Park.
Warehouse & industrial
The two Łódź logistics centres - Hillwood Łódź Chocianowice and Hillwood Łódź Górna - have been fully leased. The latest agreement has been concluded at the second facility, with a client from the electronics industry.
Warehouse & industrial
P3 Logistic Parks and Orlen have signed a lease agreement for nearly 24,000 sqm of space in the P3 Piotrków park. The facility will serve as a warehouse for supplying the corporation's fuel stations.
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Almost three quarters of employers plan to reintroduce their employees to their workplaces in phases rather than all at once, according to CBRE in its global survey on return-to-work strategies after the Covid-19 pandemic.
WORLD Real estate could actually benefit from the Covid-19 pandemic in the long run due its perception as a safe haven for investors, according to a report just published on the implications of the epidemic for the market by Swedish property consulting and fund management specialists Catella.
EUROPE Build Europe, an umbrella organisation for EU-based residential developers and constructors, has presented its recommendations for helping the sector in the EU emerge from the post-Covid19 economic crisis.
POLAND More companies have joined # Property4Heroes - the commercial real estate market's initiative to support hospital staff and ambulance crews across Poland. Each day the initiative delivers 1,150 meals to physicians, nurses, paramedics and support personnel.
POLAND Warehouse developer Panattoni has allocated PLN 500,000 to buy medical supplies for three Polish hospitals.
CEE REGION Preliminary CEE investment volumes for Q1 2020 amounted to app. EUR 3.7 bln, despite the onset of Covid-19 in the region in early March – according to Colliers International’s latest research report.
EUROPE Toyota Motor Corporation has announced the partial resumption of operations in its European manufacturing plants, which have been closed due to the coronavirus epidemic.
ROMANIA AFI Europe Romania has announced that it is rescheduling the opening of its AFI Braşov shopping and entertainment centre due to the pandemic.
SLOVENIA The official opening of the Aleja shopping centre in Ljubljana’s Šiška district has been postponed.
POLAND BPI Real Estate Polandis to introduce a virtual sales office for all of its Polish projects.
POLAND Rent payments have been suspended for all tenants in the Sukcesja shopping centre in Łódź.
POLAND The Polish Trade and Distribution Organisation [POHiD], an association of retail chains, are to contribute PLN 15 mln to fight the coronavirus epidemic.
POLAND The Carrefour Foundation and Carrefour Polska are donating around PLN 2 mln to Polish hospitals for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
POLAND The Sukcesja shopping centre owned by Fabryka Biznesu in Łódź has stopped collecting rents from its tenants.
POLAND The range of temporary trading restrictions in Polish retail buildings above 2,000 sqm imposed by the Ministry of Health has been clarified after consultations with the Polish Council of Shopping Centres [PRCH] and the Ministry of Development.
POLAND Dariusz Miłek, the president of footwear and accessories retailer CCC and Ultro Holding, the owner and manager of Cuprum Arena in Lubin and Korona in Kielce, has decided to cancel rent collections from tenants whose outlets have been forced to close during the Covid-19 emergency.
POLAND Wrocław-based developer Develia (formerly LC Corp) has announced that the disruption caused by the pandemic could have a significant and potentially serious impact on the current operations of the company and its groups.
CEE REGION According to analysis by Colliers International all CEE economies this year are to decline or fall into recession as a result of the coronavirus.
POLAND The Polish government has introduced a new directive clarifying the restrictions on movement as part of its measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
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