Office & mixed-use development
CTP opened its state-of-the-art office building I in Brno's Vlněna complex, which was created by revitalising a former brownfield site. The 60-metre-high building, designed by architectural Studio acht, boasts innovative technologies including a drone mail system.
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Warehouse & industrial
Industrial Park Poland by Hillwood has gained access to the A2 motorway. Hillwood Poland has obtained an occupancy permit for the extended and upgraded access roads that connect the emerging industrial and logistics park to the motorway.
Investment & finance
CL Property, a Polish developer specialising in multi-functional industrial and logistics space, has announced a transaction with DSV for the Citylink Łódź project. A new DSV logistics centre will be built on the 5.7-ha property located on ul. Zakładowa.
ESG
Warsaw has adopted a green standard to make urban construction more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. The capital is the first city in Poland to implement such a solution.
Investment & finance
According to JLL, the Polish investment market saw a significant increase in activity in H1 2024. Despite continuing challenges related to the cost of capital, a return of large transactions was recorded, suggesting a potential end to the slowdown phase.
Technology
Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu, adopting the title of its property management product. The rebranding aims to both refresh the company's image and unify its operations. Velis Real Estate Tech will remain the company's administrative name.
Residential
The AFI Home platform is making its debut in a third Polish city. The development on ul. Długa in Wrocław offers 232 furnished flats.
Warehouse & industrial
The Polish industrial and logistics market continues its strong growth momentum, reveals BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland in its latest report “At A Glance – Industrial and Logistics Market in Poland” for the Q2 of 2024.
Office & mixed-use development
The French Institute has decided to change its Warsaw headquarters in September 2026. It has chosen the historical building of the former Bellona Publishing House, currently undergoing modernization as part of The Bridge.
Investment & finance
European Real Estate Fund has commenced its deployment programme with the acquisition of a logistics portfolio in Poland. Three multi-tenanted properties will form the initial investment in a EUR 300 million joint venture with White Star Real Estate.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni is planning to extend its operations to all three Baltic states but is to concentrate particularly on Lithuania. As part of the new strategy the company intends to unify its cross border services, which will allow its clients to take advantage of BTS solutions both in Poland and the Baltic states.
Office & mixed-use development
Siemens Healthineers has expanded its cooperation regarding office space lease with Deka Immobilien, the owner of the International Business Center complex in Warsaw.
Warehouse & industrial
MDC2 and Fortress Real Estate Investments have finalised the lease of around 25,000 sqm within MDC2 Park Łódź South. The tenant, Oriflame Holding, owner of the Oriflame cosmetics brand, will start operations at the new location in Q1 2025.
Retail & leisure
Newgate Investment has acquired a completed retail park in Zgorzelec with over 5,400 sqm GLA. The seller was Smart Park Poland.
Infrastructure
Beyond.pl, a data centre, cloud, and managed services provider and owner of data centres in Poland, is expanding its colocation project for AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing solutions launched in January this year. The company announced that it is working to increase the target capacity of its campus in Poznań by almost 2 times.
Public buildings
The most famous palm tree in Poland will be owned by the Museum of Modern Art. One of Warsaw's best-loved art installations will soon undergo a major overhaul.
Warehouse & industrial
According to the 2024 Savills Nearshoring Index study, the Czech Republic is the second most attractive location for industrial occupiers looking to ‘nearshore’ supply chains. Portugal ranks first, Poland in third place, Sweden being fourth, and Japan rounding out the top five.
Residential
Preparations are underway for the expansion of the Port Praski project. A housing estate and an attractive public space are planned along the quays of the former Warsaw port. The project will be evaluated by local residents as part of a dialogue about the investment.
Office & mixed-use development
According to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox, the net office take-up in Bucharest across Q2 exceeded the renewal and renegociation transactional volume for the first time during the last two years, with a positive impact on the average vacancy rate, given that no new office projects were delivered in H1.
Jarosław Szanajca plans to resign from the position of president of the management board of Dom Development at the end of the year and join the supervisory board. From the beginning of 2025, Mikołaj Konopka, current member of the management board and co-founder and president of Euro Styl, will take over the reins of the company.
Kamil Kowa has become the new CEO of Savills in Poland. He is a member of the management board of the company, and for the past nine years has held the position of head of Corporate Finance and Valuation at Savills.
Michał Masztakowski has taken up the position of the head of the retail agency in Poland at Cushman & Wakefield. He will be responsible for preparing and implementing the department's business strategy, expanding the firm's client portfolio and leading a team advising tenants and investors.
Savills has appointed Stuart Jordan, the current managing director of the consultancy in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as CEO of the entire CEE region.
BDPST Group has acquired the Hotel Gellért Szálló in central Budapest from Danubius Hotel Group for an undisclosed sum.
Austrian real estate investor S Immo, following the successful completion of the mandatory takeover offer by Prague-based CPI Property Group, has by mutual consent terminated the contract of S Immo’s CEO, Bruno Ettenauer.
Łukasz Jachna, the current member of the board and the chief capital markets officer of Polish warehouse developer 7R, has decided to leave the company. He will remain the head of the capital markets team until the end of September this year.
Colliers has entered into an affiliate agreement with Serbian real estate services company West Properties.
The Generation Park Y office tower, which was developed by Skanska in Warsaw's Wola-Centrum district and is now owned by Hansainvest Real Assets, has received a Well Core & Shell ‘Gold’ certificate.
Polish construction firm Erbud has published a book aimed at encouraging girls to think about a career in the building industry.
Maciej Madejak has been appointed chief development officer, founder, and member of the management board of MDC2. Previously, he held management-level positions at Prologis, Goodman and Panattoni.
Avison Young has broadened its range of services with valuation and advisory.
Monika Rajska-Wolińska has been promoted from managing partner for Poland to the position of CEO of Colliers in Central and Eastern Europe, which now covers Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria, effective from August 1st, 2021.
Silvia Schmitten-Walgenbach has been chosen to be the next CEO of Austrian real estate investor and developer CA Immo.
Colliers has announced that it is ending its affiliation with its partner companies in Serbia and Greece.
Cushman & Wakefield has reorganised its CEE leadership by creating eight new senior positions.
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.
In Winogrady district of Poznań, the construction of the Aura residential building, designed by Robert Konieczny's office KWK Promes, has begun. The f ...
Strabag Romania has been selected by the developer and investor PPF Real Estate as the general contractor for the construction of its new office prope ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
Shopee is ending its operations in Poland. The Asian e-commerce platform, which debuted in Poland in 2021, intends to focus on operations in other reg ...
Warsaw has adopted a green standard to make urban construction more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. The capital is the first city in Po ...
The Eurobuild Awards Gala, the premier event for the region’s real estate market, is to take place this year on November 26th at the DoubleTree by Hil ...
The September ‘Eurobuild’ is now available in print and online - as always full of expert commentary and analysis, interesting topics and the latest n ...
Welcome to the really hot episode of Eurobuild FM! Our editorial team visited the construction site of The Form, a unique office building, which is be ...
The 13th JLL Real Estate Beach Volleyball Charity Tournament, which took place earlier this month, has raised over PLN 800,000 to build the third Rona ...
After a long break, we invite you to hot episode of the "Eye to eye" podcast! Today we talk with Władysław Grochowski, the head and founder of Arche.
The UN Nansen Refugee Award award will go to Poland for the first time. According to the office of the UNHCR High Commissioner this year's regional wi ...
Czech developer CTP has been granted a EUR 200 mln loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out of its large-scale solar panel installation ...
According to data from Cushman & Wakefield, the Bucharest hotel market is experiencing the highest supply growth among the CEE capitals between 2024 a ...
Jarosław Szanajca plans to resign from the position of president of the management board of Dom Development at the end of the year and join the superv ...
Beyond.pl, a data centre, cloud, and managed services provider and owner of data centres in Poland, is expanding its colocation project for AI, machin ...
Designers from Colliers, under the supervision of architect Kateřina Štenclova, prepared the concept for the Mercedes-Benz headquarters in Prague. The ...
CL Property, a Polish developer specialising in multi-functional industrial and logistics space, has announced a transaction with DSV for the Citylink ...
CTP has expanded its Polish land bank by nearly half a million sqm. The company has purchased investment land in four locations that provide the oppor ...
Last week, Nordbygg, Northern Europe’s biggest trade fair for professionals in construction and real estate industry, took place at Stockholmsmässan i ...
CTP opened its state-of-the-art office building I in Brno's Vlněna complex, which was created by revitalising a former brownfield site. The 60-metre-h ...
Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed property manager of the Vibe office building. Ghelamco’s latest development delivered 15,000 sqm to the Warsaw ...
The most famous palm tree in Poland will be owned by the Museum of Modern Art. One of Warsaw's best-loved art installations will soon undergo a major ...
The AFI Home platform is making its debut in a third Polish city. The development on ul. Długa in Wrocław offers 232 furnished flats.
Newgate Investment has acquired a completed retail park in Zgorzelec with over 5,400 sqm GLA. The seller was Smart Park Poland.
Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu, adopting the title of its property management product. The rebranding aims to both re ...
Industrial Park Poland by Hillwood has gained access to the A2 motorway. Hillwood Poland has obtained an occupancy permit for the extended and upgrade ...
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Walter Herz
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Szymon Mojzesowicz, CEO Lege Advisors
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