Warehouse & industrial
CTP has obtained an occupancy permit for buildings WARS02 and WARS05, with a total area of 110,000 sqm. The facilities are part of the CTPark Warsaw West complex. The space will be occupied by Raben Group. The location in Wiskitki, near Warsaw, will be its 36th branch in the country.
Warehouse & industrial
Polish parcel dispatch company InPost has leased 11,000 sqm at MDC2 Park Kraków South. The BTS project is to be built on a site prepared exclusively for the tenant.
Investment & finance
Starachowice’s Galardia shopping center, developed from a greenfield by Stage Capital and Sierra Balmain, has a new owner – Future Estate. Opened in October 2014, the facility offers 18,000 sqm GLA.
Office & mixed-use development
HB Reavis has signed seven-year lease agreements with Transition Technologies and other companies, which will occupy nearly 1,000 sqm of office space in the Forest campus in Warsaw. The building is now fully let.
Office & mixed-use development
GN Poland has leased more than 2,000 sqm of office space in the Saski Crescent building in Warsaw. The company is part of the GN Group, a Danish provider of intelligent audio, video, gaming solutions, and hearing systems.
Residential
Czech property group Mint is finalising the construction of its premium Metropolis residential project in Bratislava, which will comprise 298 luxury apartments.
Interior design
Viterra has moved into its new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime, part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk. The Design Anatomy studio is responsible for the design of the space.
Warehouse & industrial
GLP has commenced construction of its second logistics centre in Gliwice. The facility will ultimately offer 57,000 sqm of warehouse and production space, located adjacent to the Katowice Special Economic Zone.
Office & mixed-use development
Syrena Real Estate, managing Diuna office complex in Warsaw’s Służewiec district, has made spaces available free of charge for statutory activities of Unicef Poland and the Wiosna Association. Both organisations have launched their activities and are running initiatives.
Warehouse & industrial
Hillwood is extending its cooperation with an American e-commerce giant in Łódź Górna. The tenant has extended its lease agreement for more than 36,000 sqm of warehouse space and 2,000 sqm for offices at Hillwood's Łódź Górna logistics centre.
Investment & finance
Garbe and its joint venture partner Logicenters, Nrep's development and management platform for logistics properties, have acquired a 20,000 sqm plot of land. A logistics centre with a total area of around 11,600 sqm is to be built on this site. Construction is scheduled to begin in Q2 2025, with an investment volume of around EUR 17 mln.
Office & mixed-use development
New leases and extensions have been signed for a total of 18,000 sqm in the Metropolitan Warsaw building. Companies such as HP and LCP Group have decided to continue their operations in the building.
Office & mixed-use development
Insurance brokerage PIB Group is to occupy 1,200 sqm of office space in the West 4 Business Hub in Wrocław.
Residential
White Stone Development, a Polish developer active in the residential and commercial market, has announced the signing of key agreements for a new project. A PRS development, commissioned by Nrep, which is investing through the NSF V fund, will be built in Warsaw's Bielany district.
Office & mixed-use development
Santander Bank Polska is to move into 25,500 sqm of The Bridge skyscraper, which is under construction in Warsaw's Wola business district, in the largest leasing transaction on the Polish office market since 2022.
Eurobuild CEE
Here it is at last! The latest issue of Eurobuild is out fresh from the printers, and in it, as always, there's plenty of market news, expert opinions and information about personnel changes.
Investment & finance
Czech asset manager Arete Investment Group has entered the Polish market with the acquisition from Kajima Poland and Panattoni of a 65,000 sqm warehousing park in Zgorzelec in Lower Silesia.
Warehouse & industrial
DB Schenker has leased more than 17,000 sqm at the Hillwood Rawicz warehouse centre. The logistics operator will service a customer producing optical products and sports accessories in its new space.
Investment & finance
Nepi Rockcastle has acquired the 100,000 sqm Magnolia Park shopping centre in Wrocław from Union Investment in an off-market transaction. The sale price amounts to EUR 373 mln. Union Investment acquired Magnolia Park in 2017 for the portfolio of the UniImmo: Europa open-ended real estate fund.
Infrastructure
Ghelamco has renewed its partnership with Polish railway operator PKP SA and its real estate division Xcity Investment related to the redevelopment of the Warszawa Gdańska train station in Warsaw.
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.
In Winogrady district of Poznań, the construction of the Aura residential building, designed by Robert Konieczny's office KWK Promes, has begun. The f ...
Strabag Romania has been selected by the developer and investor PPF Real Estate as the general contractor for the construction of its new office prope ...
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 ...
Skanska has entered into a partnership with the WasteTracker startup. The smart waste counter will help monitor and report on waste streams, supportin ...
The Eurobuild Awards Gala, the premier event for the region’s real estate market, is to take place this year on November 26th at the DoubleTree by Hil ...
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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 ...
The Moxy Hotels brand has announced the expansion of its European portfolio to 100 hotels by the end of 2025. 17 more hotels are to open by the end o ...
Jarosław Szanajca plans to resign from the position of president of the management board of Dom Development at the end of the year and join the superv ...
Ghelamco has renewed its partnership with Polish railway operator PKP SA and its real estate division Xcity Investment related to the redevelopment of ...
Viterra has moved into its new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime, part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk. The Design Anatomy studio is ...
Starachowice’s Galardia shopping center, developed from a greenfield by Stage Capital and Sierra Balmain, has a new owner – Future Estate. Opened in O ...
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 ...
Last week, Nordbygg, Northern Europe’s biggest trade fair for professionals in construction and real estate industry, took place at Stockholmsmässan i ...
HB Reavis has signed seven-year lease agreements with Transition Technologies and other companies, which will occupy nearly 1,000 sqm of office space ...
Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed property manager of the Vibe office building. Ghelamco’s latest development delivered 15,000 sqm to the Warsaw ...
The most famous palm tree in Poland will be owned by the Museum of Modern Art. One of Warsaw's best-loved art installations will soon undergo a major ...
Czech property group Mint is finalising the construction of its premium Metropolis residential project in Bratislava, which will comprise 298 luxury ...
German department store chain Woolworth has signed a lease agreement for almost 1,000 sqm in the Galeria Słoneczna shopping centre in Radom.
Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu, adopting the title of its property management product. The rebranding aims to both re ...
CTP has obtained an occupancy permit for buildings WARS02 and WARS05, with a total area of 110,000 sqm. The facilities are part of the CTPark Warsaw W ...
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