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Residential
Echo Investment has presented its concept for a primary school for 300 pupils in Warsaw’s Służewiec district.
Retail & leisure
Trei Real Estate Polska is currently constructing six Vendo Park retail parks with a combined area of 26,000 sqm.
Green projects
The NoVa Park centre in Gorzów Wielkopolski has been awarded BREEAM-In-Use for the eighth time.
Property and Facility Management
The Neopark office complex in Warsaw has been acquired by a fund managed by Amundi Real Estate and Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed as the property manager.
Public buildings
The Sinfonia Varsovia symphony orchestra has received the last of the design documentation for its new centre.
Warehouse & industrial
A Polish logistics company has leased 1,500 sqm of warehouse and office space at MLP Business Park Poznań.
Office & mixed-use development
STM Cyber has leased more than 300 sqm in the Business Garden office complex in Warsaw.
Investment & finance
AFI Europe has signed an agreement to acquire Avenir Business Park in Nové Butovice (Prague 5) from UK investor Tristan Capital Partners for EUR 66.5 mln.
Green projects
A 5,165 sqm cross-docking terminal developed by Panattoni for DB Schenker in Świdnik on Lublin’s eastern outskirts has receiving BREEAM ‘Very Good’ certification.
Office & mixed-use development
The pandemic has changed the way offices operate forever and accelerated processes that would otherwise have taken years – according to the ‘Workplace Flexibility Vademecum’ report by Skanska’s commercial development business unit in the CEE region and Business Link.
Green projects
With a loan of up to EUR 25 mln from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Elemental Holding will establish the first facility in Poland and the EU for recycling both car batteries and other waste containing metals.
Residential
The total stock of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Prague stands at more than 28,400 beds.
Warehouse & industrial
Trading company High Hope SupplyChain has leased close to 2,500 sqm of warehouse and office space in Panattoni Park Poznań VII.
Investment & finance
Immofinanz has sold four office buildings in Warsaw with a total leasable area of around 45,000 sqm to Hungarian investment manager Indotek Group for EUR 72.5 mln.
Investment & finance
S Immo has rejected a request from rival Austrian real estate company Immofinanz (which intends to make a takeover bid for S Immo) not to postpone its AGM, originally scheduled for April 30th 2021.
Property and Facility Management
Savills has been appointed as the property and leasing manager of Szyperska Office Center in Poznań, which was recently acquired by Czech investment fund Investika.
Investment & finance
Mitiska REIM has secured a EUR 123 mln senior debt facility from Erste Group Bank for its entire retail park portfolio in Romania.
Corporate social responsibility
Robyg Group has turned to JLL to advise it on drawing up a comprehensive environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategy.
Office & mixed-use development
IT companies drEryk and Innergy have leased space from Cavatina Holding in the Tischnera Office building in Kraków and will take up a combined 1,200 sqm.
Avison Young has launched two new strategic affiliations in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria to expand the firm’s services to clients further across the CEE region.
A mix of in-office and remote working is likely to be the main style of office working to maximise employee and organisational performance once the pandemic is over, according to the latest report from Cushman & Wakefield.
JLL has for the first time in the history of international real estate consultancies in Poland chosen someone from outside the sector to run the company. Mateusz Bonca has been appointed the CEO of JLL in Poland, with his new posting becoming effective in mid-November.
POLAND Reina Partners is the latest advisory to emerge on the Polish commercial real estate market.
POLAND/WORLD As employers prepare to allow their staff to return to their offices, a recent study by JLL points out that the process will have to be done gradually and certain safeguards and revised practices will have to be in place.
POLAND Krzysztof Misiak has been appointed head of Cushman & Wakefield Poland.
SLOVAKIA Michal Oparty, the head of the project and development services department at JLL Bratislava, has been made a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
CZECH REPUBLIC Katarína Brydone has been appointed head of investment properties of CBRE in the Czech Republic, effective from June 1st. She succeeds Chris Sheils, who has decided to leave the business following Clare Sheils’ promotion to managing director of CBRE Czech Republic.
EUROPE Oliver Schumy, the CEO of Immofinanz, is stepping down from the management board.
POLAND/ROMANIA Ioannis Papalekas, the founder of Globalworth, is stepping down from the board of directors of Globalworth with immediate effect but will remain as CEO.
CEE REGION Skanska has centralised its operations in the CEE region by appointing new deputy CEOs responsible for different divisions.
WORLD Around 693 mln boomers will reach retirement age and 1.3 bln of generation Z are set to enter workforce over the next 10 years, according to the “Demographic Shifts: The World in 2030” report by Cushman & Wakefield.
Sabine Eckhardt has been appointed CEO for Central Europe, with effect from May 1st.
POLAND Leach & Partners have been appointed to manage two residential buildings and one private student house at ul. Rakowicka 20 in Kraków.
EPP has announced that Tomasz Trzósło has been nominated for the position of CEO to succeed Hadley Dean, whose term of office is due to expire in May. The appointment has to be approved by the general meeting of shareholders.
POLAND According to the ‘Generation 50+ at work – truth and stereotypes’ report by Essilor Polonia and Bigram 59 pct hold a degree and more than half claim to know English at an advanced level.
POLAND The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work [EU-OSHA] claims that more jobs will be performed by sedentary workers in the future and the rates for obesity cardiovascular disease and diabetes are likely to increase increase.
POLAND According to a recent survey by HR Design Group on employment in the real estate and construction sector, almost 40 pct of those working in the sector intend to change their jobs within the next twelve months and 83 pct stated they felt overworked and stressed at work.
WORLD Dylan Taylor has been dismissed as chief executive officer of Colliers real estate services for misconduct including improper trading activity in Colliers securities in breach of his employment obligations.
ROMANIA Echinox, the representative of Cushman & Wakefield in Romania has been commissioned to manage the Eminescu Office building, which has recently been delivered in Bucharest, near Piaţa Romană.
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Twenty Polish projects have been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2022.
Vastint Poland has awarded Budimex with the general contracting services for the initial part of the second phase of its Waterfront development in Gdy ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Robyg Group has turned to JLL to advise it on drawing up a comprehensive environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategy.
Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.
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In our latest Eurobuild FM podcast, we find out from Efrat Fenigson of flexible space operator Mindspace how the flex office market has been coping du ...
The pandemic might have upended the plans of many in a number of sectors, but not of those in warehousing. The warehouse market is still one of the fa ...
The NoVa Park centre in Gorzów Wielkopolski has been awarded BREEAM-In-Use for the eighth time.
Over 2020, RevPAR slid by 64 pct in Vilnius, 68 pct in Riga, and 72 pct in Tallinn according to figures from the Christie & Co consultancy.
Avison Young has launched two new strategic affiliations in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria to expand the firm’s services to clients further across t ...
Construction work on Warsaw’s southern bypass is nearing completion.
The MádiLáncos Studio has been commissioned to design the interiors of Arena Corner.
AFI Europe has signed an agreement to acquire Avenir Business Park in Nové Butovice (Prague 5) from UK investor Tristan Capital Partners for EUR 66.5 ...
STM Cyber has leased more than 300 sqm in the Business Garden office complex in Warsaw.
The Neopark office complex in Warsaw has been acquired by a fund managed by Amundi Real Estate and Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed as the prope ...
The Sinfonia Varsovia symphony orchestra has received the last of the design documentation for its new centre.
Echo Investment has presented its concept for a primary school for 300 pupils in Warsaw’s Służewiec district.
Trei Real Estate Polska is currently constructing six Vendo Park retail parks with a combined area of 26,000 sqm.
US company AI Clearing is to provide its fully automated construction progress tracking solution for Esoleo, which is building Poland’s largest solar ...
A Polish logistics company has leased 1,500 sqm of warehouse and office space at MLP Business Park Poznań.
