Segro becomes part of Proptech Foundation
Technologyschedule 26 March 2021
Magdalena Szulc, managing director of Segro for Central Europe
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Segro has joined the Proptech Foundation.
Investment & finance
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to sell its entire 5 pct stake in Globalworth Real Estate Investments to Zakiono Enterprises, which is owned by CPI Property Group and Aroundtown – a consortium that is currently engaged in a takeover bid for the Romanian-based company.
Warehouse & industrial
Polish warehouse property developer MLP Group is to build a 10,000 sqm facility for Hart Logistics in MLP Poznań West.
Office & mixed-use development
One United Properties has been loaned EUR 78 mln from a consortium of banks for its One Cotroceni Park office complex in Bucharest.
Warehouse & industrial
White Star Logistics, a new joint venture between White Star Real Estate and fellow US investor Bain Capital Credit, is to develop its first two logistics centres – in Nowy Konik and Raszyn, on Warsaw’s eastern and southwestern outskirts, respectively.
Warehouse & industrial
Austrian automation company Knapp has bought a 30,000 sqm industrial plant near Veszprém from lawnmower producer MTD Hungary for an undisclosed sum.
Infrastructure
Austrian construction firm Strabag has been awarded an EUR 111 mln contract to build a 19 km dual carriageway between Oradea and the A3 motorway.
Warehouse & industrial
Polish industrial developer 7R has brought into use the tenth warehouse building in 7R Park Kraków in Kokotów on the south-eastern outskirts of the city.
Office & mixed-use development
BBI Development and Liebrecht & Wood have started the process for selling their city-forming Centrum Praskie Koneser redevelopment project in Warsaw’s Praga district.
Office & mixed-use development
Colliers has been chosen to be the exclusive commercialisation agent for University Business Park in Łódź, which is owned by Globe Trade Centre.
Architecture and urban planning
Dutch studios Benthem Crouwel Architekten and West 8 have won the competition to design a new central railway station for Brno, in what was the largest architectural competition in the history of the Czech Republic.
Green projects
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has provided a provides a EUR 73 mln green loan to NE Property BV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEPI Rockcastle, for the development of sustainable real estate in Romania.
Office & mixed-use development
At the end of Q2 2021, the total modern office stock in Warsaw amounted to almost 6.1 mln sqm, according to the latest figures from PINK (the Polish Chamber of Commercial Properties). The vacancy rate was up by 1.1 pp q-o-q and by 4.6 pp y-o-y to 12.5 pct.
Office & mixed-use development
A museum dedicated to Apple products is to open in the Norblin Factory complex in the autumn with 1,500 exhibits related to the development and evolution of the company’s technology.
Infrastructure
Warbud is to rebuild a road bridge over the river Warta in Kostrzyn nad Odrą, close to the Polish-German border.
Retail & leisure
Patria has bought two retail parks from Czech developer KPD – in Ovčáry just outside in Kolín in central Bohemia and in Mohelnice in the Olomouc district of Moravia.
Public buildings
In Q2 2021, the value of the apartments sold in the exclusive Złota 44 residential tower in Warsaw was 28 pct higher than the previous highest figure recorded in Q4 2020.
Office & mixed-use development
Warsaw city council has leased 12,000 sqm in the newly completed Widok Towers in the centre of the capital.
Office & mixed-use development
Industrial and office agency Axi Immo has renewed the leases for its premises on the top floor of Spektrum Tower in Warsaw’s CBD as well as in Muchowiec Active Park in Katowice.
Office & mixed-use development
RTL Services, the business services company for Magyar RTL Televízió, has signed a long-term lease for space in the Liget Center and the Liget Auditórium office buildings in Budapest, which are owned by Wing.
Retail & leisure
Polish developer Scallier has acquired a retail park development from Oasis Retail & Development Consulting in Timişoara for an undisclosed sum.
Atrium Poland Real Estate Management is to work with Pergamin, a Polish startup that allows contracts to be signed with digital signatures. In this way, the leasing of 14 of Atrium’s centres will be up to ten times quicker.
Cushman & Wakefield has teamed up with FairFleet to offer drone surveillance services throughout the EMEA as well as across the Asia Pacific region and Canada.
US company AI Clearing is to provide its fully automated construction progress tracking solution for Esoleo, which is building Poland’s largest solar farm on the site of a former brown coal mine in Brudzew in central Poland.
Segro has joined the Proptech Foundation.
AI Clearing, Inc. has raised USD 2 mln in seed funding to accelerate the development – at its R&D centre in Warsaw – of its artificial intelligence system for monitoring the progress of construction projects.
Cushman & Wakefield, a leading global real estate services firm, has entered into a partnership with leading proptech advisor Future2.
The Norblin Factory complex in Warsaw being developed by Capital Park Group through the renovation and conversion of a former metal plating plant is to have an automated bicycle storage centre created by MA-Sistemas, a Spanish company active in Switzerland, Singapore and Israel.
Flex office operator has launched an app that allows its clients to make bookings, order additional services and also acts as a communication platform.
Echo Investment is to introduce the Blue Bolt app, created by Polish software developer NTT, to all its new residential projects.
Cushman & Wakefield has identified Berlin, Reykjavik, Oslo, Warsaw, Zurich, Milan, Vienna, Madrid and Prague as emerging European hotspots for data centre development.
The first Polish robot to use UV-C light for disinfection has been put to use in a hospital in Wrocław.
The first fully automated canteen in Poland is to open in Sky Tower in Wrocław.
HB Reavis has introduced its Symbiosy smart office system into petro-giant BP’s new global businesses services unit in the Agora building in Budapest.
As many as 88 pct of EMEA occupiers intend to invest more in technology designed specifically to aid home working, according to CBRE’s 2020 EMEA Occupier Flash Survey.
During the pandemic digitisation has become fundamental to business development and stability, according to the findings of the “Omnichannel – from evolution to revolution. A look at the pandemic” report by Colliers International.
POLAND Colliers International is to introduce the Dutch smart office system Office App to the office buildings it manages in Poland.
POLAND Polish warehouse developer7R is to introduce the Smart Roof system, developed by Sense Monitoring, to one of its parks.
POLAND Echo Investment has launched a virtual customer assistant, Aurelia, for residential consultations.
POLAND MW, a company that is 60 pct owned by M.B.B Logistics and 40 pct owned by Wing Sing Supply Chain, has created a robot management system, which uses machine learning to improve its order processing operations over time.
POLAND The Renteye sensory system has been launched on the market.
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Skanska is to build the Innovation Centre for Food Sciences for the Warsaw University of Life Sciences [SGGW].
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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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has provided a provides a EUR 73 mln green loan to NE Property BV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEPI Rockc ...
The H2 Hotel Budapest, Trademark Collection by Wyndham has opened.
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Austrian construction firm Strabag has been awarded an EUR 111 mln contract to build a 19 km dual carriageway between Oradea and the A3 motorway.
Globe Trade Centre has started the modernization of one the Aeropark Business Center in Warsaw.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to sell its entire 5 pct stake in Globalworth Real Estate Investments to Zakion ...
Slovakian real estate group HB Reavis has sold the site of the now demolished Transgas complex in central Prague to Czech developer PSN for CZK 870 ml ...
One United Properties has been loaned EUR 78 mln from a consortium of banks for its One Cotroceni Park office complex in Bucharest.
Real estate services company Robertson Hungary has acquired BNP Paribas Real Estate Hungary, with which it has been in a cooperation agreement since 2 ...
In Q2 2021, the value of the apartments sold in the exclusive Złota 44 residential tower in Warsaw was 28 pct higher than the previous highest figure ...
Poland and the Czech Republic lead the way in the development of the PRS market in the CEE region, according to ‘The Private Rental Sector: Has it fou ...
Patria has bought two retail parks from Czech developer KPD – in Ovčáry just outside in Kolín in central Bohemia and in Mohelnice in the Olomouc distr ...
Atrium Poland Real Estate Management is to work with Pergamin, a Polish startup that allows contracts to be signed with digital signatures. In this wa ...
Polish warehouse property developer MLP Group is to build a 10,000 sqm facility for Hart Logistics in MLP Poznań West.
