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

Coronavirus
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.
According to Catella's latest 'Market Tracker' report, the short term impact of rent payment defaults are likely to lead to loss of earnings and revaluations across the market. While stressing that nothing can be predicted with any certainly right now, the report points out that the longer the lack of liquidity, interrupted cash flows and the additional costs due to the epidemic continue, the greater the negative effects will be. These include falling rents and increased risk premiums. In turn,
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Investment & finance

Poland Panattoni Park Warsaw North II sold

schedule 18 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The Trademarc Property Fund, co-owned and managed by Griffin Capital Partners, has sold Panattoni Park Warsaw North II, an 88,000 sqm logistics park in Radzymin, east of Warsaw, to Trigea Nemovitostní Fond.

Material partner

Antarctica Construction at the edge of the world

schedule 27 November 2025
Opr./edited by JC

The implementation team for the next stage of the construction of the new main building of the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station has reached King George Island – over 14,000 km from Poland.

Hotels

Czech Republic New look for Novotel Praha Wenceslas Square

schedule 18 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The comprehensive renovation of the Novotel Praha Wenceslas Square has been completed. The work included 146 guestrooms, the lobby, the fitness centre, the swimming pool, the wellness area, and the conference room.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland No more office space in AFI Bohema

schedule 18 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The office section of the AFI Home Metro Szwedzka complex in Warsaw, in the city's Praga-Północ district, is fully leased with the signing of Enel-Med as the latest tenant in the AFI Bohema centre.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Squarepoint signs lease for space in Skyliner II

schedule 18 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The Karimpol Group has signed its first lease agreement for the Skyliner II office building in Warsaw's Wola district. Global investment management firm Squarepoint will occupy nearly 2,200 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Ambro enters CeMat'70

schedule 18 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Ambro Express has joined the tenants of the CeMat'70 complex on ul. Wólczyńska in Warsaw's Bielany district. The nationwide courier will occupy over 1,000 sqm of warehouse space.

Investment & finance

Czech Republic Strakonická retail park sold

schedule 18 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Mitiska REIM has sold the Strakonická retail park in České Budějovice to the Fio Real Estate Fund.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Bricomarché comes to Warsaw

schedule 18 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

EIKA Asset Management has completed the stage part of the Warsaw North Logistic Park, and Bricomarché has already moved in as the first tenant.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Komfort in Hillwood Łowicz South

schedule 18 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Komfort has leased over 30,000 sqm of warehouse space in the Hillwood Łowicz Souath park in Czatolin.

Infrastructure

Poland Toruń Miasto station restored

schedule 17 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The Polish State Railways (PKP) has completed a comprehensive renovation of Toruń Miasto station at a cost of over PLN 25.5 mln gross.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Płock to gain a new centre

schedule 17 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

A large residential and commercial complex will be built on the corner of al. Kobylińskiego and ul. Bielska in Płock. The centre is being developed by a local businessman and complies with the principles of a 15-minute city.

Residential

Poland The growing pains of PRS

schedule 17 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The Polish institutional rental sector is one of the fastest-growing segments of the housing market, according to the latest report from Savills and Crido, titled 'The PRS Market in Poland: Commercial, Legal, and Tax Aspects.'

Architecture and urban planning

Poland Need for clarity introducing reforms

schedule 17 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Polish cities and investors are preparing for the biggest change in spatial planning in two decades. By mid-2026, all municipalities must adopt general plans, which will replace existing zoning studies and become the primary document defining the framework for building location.

Office & mixed-use development

First CLT building constructed in Poland

schedule 17 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The first office building in Poland constructed using cross-laminated timber (CLT) has been completed. The building is the new Polish head office of Sylva, part of the French Piveteaubois group and is located in Wiele in Pomerania.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland December highlights the need for more data centres

schedule 17 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

According to the Polish Data Centre Association, the pre-holiday period witnesses a surge in online activity—from shopping and payments, through streaming and communication, to tracking deliveries—underlining the critical role of data centres in December.

Interior design

Plan B completes fit out for the Association of Polish Cities

schedule 17 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Plan B Group has just completed the fit-out for the new 500 sqm headquarters of the Association of Polish Cities (Związek Miast Polskich) in the Globis office building in Poznań, owned and managed by GTC Group.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland More tenants in Waterfront

schedule 17 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Vastint has announced 2,000 sqm of leases at its Waterfront development in Gdynia. The largest new office in the complex was taken by DP World with a lease of 1,100 sqm.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Enel Med expands in Signum Work Station

schedule 16 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

TriGranit has leased an additional 2,500 sqm of office space for a ten-year term to the Enel-med medical centre in the Signum Work Station in Warsaw. 

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Lobby upgrade for Equator I

schedule 16 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

CPI Property Group is beginning the modernisation of the lobby of the Equator I building in Warsaw. The project aims to upgrade the building's formal space and improve user comfort.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni delivers household appliance component factory

schedule 16 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Panattoni has completed the construction of a new production facility for the E.G.O.- Group (E.G.O.), one of the world’s leading suppliers of components for the household appliances sector. The 15,000 sqm factory was delivered in a build-to-own (BTO) formula in Łódź, next to the company’s existing headquarters.

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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