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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.
This volume was significantly boosted by the app. EUR 1.3 bln acquisition of the Residomo portfolio in the Czech Republic by Heimstaden, but the turnover was still 68 pct higher than the figure for Q1 2019 (EUR 2.2 bln) and 28 pct more than Q1 2018 (EUR 2.9 bln). Poland took the lion share of the Q1 volume (48 pct), followed by the Czech Republic (39 pct), Slovakia (5 pct), Romania (4 pct), Hungary (2 pct) and Bulgaria (2 pct). Kevin Turpin, the research director for the CEE region at Colliers
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World Two Polish projects in the final of the MIPIM Awards

schedule 29 January 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Two projects by the Echo-Archicom Group have made it to the final of the MIPIM Awards. Łódź's Fuzja and Warsaw's Towarowa22 are the only Polish investments nominated in this year's edition.

Land acquisitions

Sweden Panattoni enlarges its  Swedish portfolio 

schedule 29 January 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg, Sweden. The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility.

Warehouse & industrial

Niemcy Between Cologne and Frankfurt

schedule 29 January 2025
Opr./edited by JC

P3 begins construction of the P3 Pfalzfeld logistics park. The facility will have 23,000 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Germany Garbe secures site near Hildesheim

schedule 29 January 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Garbe has acquired a plot of land measuring around 32,000 sqm in Bockenem, around 20 km south-east of Hildesheim. A logistics centre with a total area of approx. 18,500 sqm is to be built on this site. The total investment volume amounts to around EUR 23 mln.

Investment & finance

Germany Lombardhaus changes hands

schedule 29 January 2025
Opr./edited by JC

Sonar Real Estate, acting as transaction manager and commercial advisor, has successfully completed the sale of Lombardhaus office building located at Pelzerstraße in Hamburg.

Investment & finance

Poland Develia buys land in the centre of Wrocław

schedule 28 January 2025
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Develia has bought land at ul. Orląt Lwowskich in Wrocław. The developer plans to develop a dormitory with around 600 rooms and two service units on it. Develia acquired the property from the Puro Hotels financial group for PLN 40.6 mln.

Investment & finance

Germany Pamera went shopping

schedule 28 January 2025
Opr./edited by JC

Pamera Real Estate Partners concluded 2024 with the acquisition of two additional properties valued at approx. EUR 40 mln. One of the assets is a medical centre located in the Grosshadern district of Munich.

Investment & finance

CEE Summus Capital: Boldness from the Baltics

schedule 28 January 2025
Nathan North
deputy editor

Towards the end of last year, Estonian-based investment company Summus Capital expanded out of the Baltics to make its first acquisitions in Poland: the React office building Łódź (15,000 sqm – sold for EUR 32.5 mln) and the Lakeside office complex in Warsaw (23,834 sqm, EUR 61.9 mln). And so, Eurobuild spoke to Summus Capital board member Hannes Pihl to find out more about the company's strategy.

Office & mixed-use development

Germany Silverton lets office space in Meerbusch

schedule 28 January 2025
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The Silverton Group has agreed to a long-term lease of around 950 sqm of office space in the property near Düsseldorf to Gel Express Logistik. The office building at Otto-Hahn-Strasse in Meerbusch provides a total lettable area of around 3,100 sqm.

Investment & finance

Germany Garbe and Sidra Capital form joint venture

schedule 28 January 2025
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Garbe has formed a strategic partnership with Sidra Capital, a Middle Eastern investment manager with a global portfolio. The joint venture’s objective is the acquisition of light industrial and logistics real estate in Germany within the framework of sale-and-leaseback transactions.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland FroGum takes 10,000 sqm from MLP

schedule 28 January 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

The distributor of car accessories has joined the tenants of the MLP Pruszków II logistics centre. The company has leased 10,000 sqm of warehouse space with immediate access.

Investment & finance

Czech Republic Industrial partnership in Ostrava

schedule 27 January 2025
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Panattoni, together with Accolade, has acquired a plot of land near the airport in Ostrava. The 38-hectare site will create 120,000 sqm of new industrial and warehouse space.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Douglas moves into CTPark Warsaw South

schedule 27 January 2025
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CTP has signed a 10-year lease for over 46,200 sqm of warehouse and office space at CTPark Warsaw South with Douglas, the European company operating in the omnichannel premium beauty segment.

Investment & finance

POLAND The man behind the year's biggest deal

schedule 24 January 2025
Nathan North
deputy editor

Eastnine entered the Polish market in 2022 with the purchase of Nowy Rynek D in Poznań. And building E was added to its portfolio early last year. But at the end of the year, the Swedish investor pulled off a major coup with the biggest office acquisition of 2024 when it added Warsaw Unit to its portfolio. So, we spoke to Kestutis Sasnauskas, the CEO of Eastnine, to find out more about this spectacular transaction and the company’s future plans

Office & mixed-use development

Germany CMS law firm stays with Patrizia

schedule 24 January 2025
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Law firm CMS has renewed its lease for 10 years for 10,200 sqm of office space at MainTor Panorama building in Frankfurt.

Investment & finance

Poland Martley Capital completes the sale of two warehouse assets

schedule 24 January 2025
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Martley Capital has completed the sale of two Polish warehouse assets from their Polish value add fund, known as POLAF. The assets are located in Długołęka and in Oleśnica, both in the Wroclaw Industrial Hub.

Retail & leisure

Poland New retail supply hits its highest in almost a decade

schedule 24 January 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Cushman &Wakefield has summarised the situation on the Polish retail market. Over half a mln sqm of new retail space came on stream last year, marking the highest new supply level in Poland since 2015. This robust development activity occurred amid rising demand from new retailers and improving consumer sentiment which boosted retail sales.

Investment & finance

Europe How W.P. Carey proposes to unlock capital

schedule 24 January 2025
Alex Hayes
journalist

We talk with W. P. Carey, the US-based sale and leaseback specialist and Christopher Mertlitz, the company’s Head of European Investments, explains the company’s strategy in Poland and why he believes ample opportunities for this kind of financing still exist.

Warehouse & industrial

Romania BTS for Rossmann is ready

schedule 24 January 2025
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Panattoni has completed the construction of a new logistics centre for Rossmann in Üllő. The area of the facility is 28,000 sqm.

Residential

Poland Investors see the potential in students

schedule 24 January 2025
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Only 11 pct of students in Poland can be accommodated in student houses, both public and private. PRS At a Glance: Institutional Rental Market Poland. Student Housing 2024, a report by BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, indicates that investor interest in the PBSA segment will grow in the coming years.

Latest in Coronavirus

schedule 30 March 2021

Vaccination centre provided by Globalworth

The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.

schedule 24 June 2020

Employers in no rush to return to workplaces

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.

schedule 14 May 2020

Catella sees hope and chances for real estate after Covid-19

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.

schedule 14 May 2020

Build Europe pushes post-coronavirus action plan

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.

schedule 14 May 2020

Polish RE lends an even greater hand to fight the pandemic

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.

schedule 07 May 2020

Panattoni to provide PLN 0.5 bln worth of medical supplies

POLAND Warehouse developer Panattoni has allocated PLN 500,000 to buy medical supplies for three Polish hospitals.

schedule 14 April 2020

Landlords underwhelmed by emergency relief

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.

schedule 14 April 2020

Toyota prepares to reopen Polish plants

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.

schedule 08 April 2020

AFI Braşov now to open in the autumn

ROMANIA AFI Europe Romania has announced that it is rescheduling the opening of its AFI Braşov shopping and entertainment centre due to the pandemic.

schedule 08 April 2020

Aleja opening postponed

SLOVENIA The official opening of the Aleja shopping centre in Ljubljana’s Šiška district has been postponed.

schedule 07 April 2020

BPI opens virtual sales office

POLAND BPI Real Estate Polandis to introduce a virtual sales office for all of its Polish projects.

schedule 07 April 2020

Rent suspension in Sukcesja

POLAND Rent payments have been suspended for all tenants in the Sukcesja shopping centre in Łódź.

schedule 03 April 2020

Retailers join the fight

POLAND The Polish Trade and Distribution Organisation [POHiD], an association of retail chains, are to contribute PLN 15 mln to fight the coronavirus epidemic.

schedule 02 April 2020

Carrefour donates PLN 2 mln to fight pandemic

POLAND The Carrefour Foundation and Carrefour Polska are donating around PLN 2 mln to Polish hospitals for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

schedule 01 April 2020

Pay no rent in Sukcesja

POLAND The Sukcesja shopping centre owned by Fabryka Biznesu in Łódź has stopped collecting rents from its tenants.

schedule 31 March 2020

Government takes on board PRCH recommendations

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.

schedule 31 March 2020

Rent holiday for CCC and Ultro tenants

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.

schedule 31 March 2020

Develia fears Covid-19 impact on business

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.

schedule 31 March 2020

Economies rebalance in wake of coronavirus

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.

schedule 30 March 2020

Movement and gatherings ban tightened further

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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