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.
Skanska is to build the Innovation Centre for Food Sciences for the Warsaw University of Life Sciences [SGGW].
A consortium of Mostostal Warszawa and Acciona Construcción has signed a contract for the design and construction of a bypass around Opatów along the S74 expressway and national road.
Skanska has been awarded a PLN 141 mln contract by Beiersdorf Manufacturing Poznań to expand and reconstruct a production facility in Poznań, Poland. The contract be included in Skanska’s order bookings for Europe for H2 2021.
General contractor Porr has completed the construction work on the tunnel connecting the Skysawa mixed-use complex in Warsaw and the Rondo ONZ metro station.
Vastint Poland has awarded Budimex with the general contracting services for the initial part of the second phase of its Waterfront development in Gdynia.
Erbud has been awarded a PLN 67.69 mln net contract by Archicom for the construction of two buildings of its Browary Wrocławskie (Wrocław Brewery) revitalisation project.
A tender has been announced to choose the general contractor for the new Warsaw headquarter building of Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.
By the end of 2022 Skanska is to have built a 143m flyover over six railway tracks in Skiernewice as well as renovated a total of around 1.2 km of road.
A consortium led by Strabag has started the construction of the first phase of Sekyra Group’s large scale Smíchov City urban development on a 40 ha plot in Prague.
A consortium of VINCI and Meridiam has been awarded a PPP contract to build the D4 motorway between Příbram (Central Bohemia) and Písek (South Bohemia).
A consortium of Eurovia, Subterra, Strabag. and AŽD Praha has been awarded a EUR 323 mln contract to build the Žilina-Teplička railway station and to modernise one of the most important Slovak railway junctions.
The Polish subsidiary of Austrian company Strabag has been awarded a EUR 60 mln contract to construct the new Polish Embassy building in Berlin.
A consortium of Eurovia CS and Strabag has been awarded a contract to build an 8.4 km section of the D55 motorway from Babice to Staré Město in the Zlín region.
The Norblin Factory complex on ul. Żelazna in Warsaw has been topped off. Warbud is the general contractor of the eight-storey, 44m building, while Capital Park Group is the developer.
The Polish economy has already passed the low point of the short-term economic downturn.
Erbud has been appointed as the general contractor of a retail centre, which the Saller Group is developing in the village of Lipnik just east of Szczecin.
The Polish Military Aviation Works (WZL1) in partnership with Lockheed Martin has begun construction work on a 3,000 sqm production plant in Dęblin in Poland’s Lublin province.
Hochtief Polska has been awarded a contract by Orpea to renovate and extend the Rezydencja Święta Jadwiga nursing home in Wroclaw.
EU construction output rebounded in May, up by 21.2 pct on the previous month, following a record fall in April, when output plummeted by 14.9 pct, according to data and analytics specialists GlobalData.
Four mega-projects are currently under construction in Poland with a combined value of PLN 17 bln (EUR 3.8 bln), according to research by construction market analysts Spectis.
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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 larges ...
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 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 ...
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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.
