Warehouse & industrial
Polish parcel dispatch company InPost has leased 11,000 sqm at MDC2 Park Kraków South. The BTS project is to be built on a site prepared exclusively for the tenant.
Investment & finance
Starachowice’s Galardia shopping center, developed from a greenfield by Stage Capital and Sierra Balmain, has a new owner – Future Estate. Opened in October 2014, the facility offers 18,000 sqm GLA.
Office & mixed-use development
HB Reavis has signed seven-year lease agreements with Transition Technologies and other companies, which will occupy nearly 1,000 sqm of office space in the Forest campus in Warsaw. The building is now fully let.
Office & mixed-use development
GN Poland has leased more than 2,000 sqm of office space in the Saski Crescent building in Warsaw. The company is part of the GN Group, a Danish provider of intelligent audio, video, gaming solutions, and hearing systems.
Residential
Czech property group Mint is finalising the construction of its premium Metropolis residential project in Bratislava, which will comprise 298 luxury apartments.
Interior design
Viterra has moved into its new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime, part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk. The Design Anatomy studio is responsible for the design of the space.
Warehouse & industrial
GLP has commenced construction of its second logistics centre in Gliwice. The facility will ultimately offer 57,000 sqm of warehouse and production space, located adjacent to the Katowice Special Economic Zone.
Office & mixed-use development
Syrena Real Estate, managing Diuna office complex in Warsaw’s Służewiec district, has made spaces available free of charge for statutory activities of Unicef Poland and the Wiosna Association. Both organisations have launched their activities and are running initiatives.
Warehouse & industrial
Hillwood is extending its cooperation with an American e-commerce giant in Łódź Górna. The tenant has extended its lease agreement for more than 36,000 sqm of warehouse space and 2,000 sqm for offices at Hillwood's Łódź Górna logistics centre.
Investment & finance
Garbe and its joint venture partner Logicenters, Nrep's development and management platform for logistics properties, have acquired a 20,000 sqm plot of land. A logistics centre with a total area of around 11,600 sqm is to be built on this site. Construction is scheduled to begin in Q2 2025, with an investment volume of around EUR 17 mln.
Office & mixed-use development
New leases and extensions have been signed for a total of 18,000 sqm in the Metropolitan Warsaw building. Companies such as HP and LCP Group have decided to continue their operations in the building.
Office & mixed-use development
Insurance brokerage PIB Group is to occupy 1,200 sqm of office space in the West 4 Business Hub in Wrocław.
Residential
White Stone Development, a Polish developer active in the residential and commercial market, has announced the signing of key agreements for a new project. A PRS development, commissioned by Nrep, which is investing through the NSF V fund, will be built in Warsaw's Bielany district.
Office & mixed-use development
Santander Bank Polska is to move into 25,500 sqm of The Bridge skyscraper, which is under construction in Warsaw's Wola business district, in the largest leasing transaction on the Polish office market since 2022.
Eurobuild CEE
Here it is at last! The latest issue of Eurobuild is out fresh from the printers, and in it, as always, there's plenty of market news, expert opinions and information about personnel changes.
Investment & finance
Czech asset manager Arete Investment Group has entered the Polish market with the acquisition from Kajima Poland and Panattoni of a 65,000 sqm warehousing park in Zgorzelec in Lower Silesia.
Warehouse & industrial
DB Schenker has leased more than 17,000 sqm at the Hillwood Rawicz warehouse centre. The logistics operator will service a customer producing optical products and sports accessories in its new space.
Investment & finance
Nepi Rockcastle has acquired the 100,000 sqm Magnolia Park shopping centre in Wrocław from Union Investment in an off-market transaction. The sale price amounts to EUR 373 mln. Union Investment acquired Magnolia Park in 2017 for the portfolio of the UniImmo: Europa open-ended real estate fund.
Infrastructure
Ghelamco has renewed its partnership with Polish railway operator PKP SA and its real estate division Xcity Investment related to the redevelopment of the Warszawa Gdańska train station in Warsaw.
Retail & leisure
German department store chain Woolworth has signed a lease agreement for almost 1,000 sqm in the Galeria Słoneczna shopping centre in Radom.
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 programme across its European business park portfolio.
Real estate investor and fund manager Cromwell Property Group has secured a EUR 66 mln green loan for the 61,000 sqm Janki shopping centre on the southern outskirts of Warsaw.
Pad Res, a joint venture between Griffin Capital Partners and Kajima Europe, is to build two photovoltaic farms in Pomerania with a total capacity of 117 megawatts.
German asset manager KGAL Investment Management is to establish a joint venture to build four solar and wind parks with specialist Polish developer Lasuno for its KGAL ESPF 5 impact fund.
The newly constructed warehouse, which has expanded CTPark Prague West, has been certified as the most environmentally friendly industrial building in the Czech Republic according to ‘BREEAM New Construction’ standards, with a record score of 92.1 pct. The building is home to Rhenus Logistics, which uses it as a cross-dock for its pan-European network for collection services and warehousing.
Owned by the Capital Park Group, the Warsaw mixed use complex Norblin Factory has received the final BREEAM certificates for both its office and retail sections. A photovoltaic system has been installed in the complex, and the managers are continuing their efforts to steadily reduce the property’s carbon footprint.
Energy consumption reduced by almost 48 pct, almost 4 mln litres of water saved in a year and CO2 emissions reduced by more than 3,900 tonnes - these are the savings generated by the Warsaw P180 office building, developed by Skanska in Warsaw by the Wilanowska metro station. The investment has just received LEED Core & Shell certification at the Platinum level.
Docks Bruxsel in Brussels has received a CO2 neutrality certificate from CO2logic/South Pole. It is the first large shopping centre in Europe to receive this certification.
Panattoni has received an "Outstanding" rating under the BREEAM International New Construction system for Panattoni Park Szczecin III halls A and B. This is the first such high level of certification in the industrial real estate market in Poland for a newly built investment.
CA Immo has concluded 45 lease agreements with a total of nearly 29,000 sqm of office space in Warsaw in the past year, 20 pct of which in Q4 of 2022. The company has also introduced a green lease initiative in 2022, governing mutual commitment of landlord and tenant to optimize sustainable building operations. Since May 2022, 23 green lease agreements have already been concluded.
.Ktw II office building, developed by TDJ Estate, has been certified BREEAM at the Excellent level. The document is the final assessment of the investment's environmental impact. The building achieved a score of 80.6 pct.
Globalworth received 47 various ESG related certifications for its Romanian portfolio in 2022, among them LEED, BREEM, WELL Health & Safety and Access4you accreditations.
Panattoni is supporting the upcycling of the machinery used to generate green energy. In 15 of its locations environmentally friendly outdoor furniture made from former wind turbines can already be found, and in 2023 similar furniture is to appear in another 100 locations.
Futureal’s Etele Plaza in Budapest has received BREEAM 'Very Good' certification in the retail category.
Bilfinger Tebodin has completed work on a 27 MW wind farm in Kostomłoty in the South-West of Poland. The investment was carried out by Polenergia, Poland's largest private energy group.
Ghelamco has completed its first three photovoltaic farms as part of its programme to achieve energy neutrality, announced in May 2022. The installations, with a capacity of nearly 3 MW, were built in three locations in the Opole region.
C3, the Circular Construction & Technology Center project in Bremen is the Strabag’s first competence centre for sustainable circularity. It will be focused on resource reprocessing, it will be energy self-sufficient and climate neutral.
Czech developer CTP has obtained the first BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification – the highest possible level – of its Romanian portfolio for the Clubhaus multifunctional building, part of the CTPark Bucharest West industrial park.
The fifth floor of the Spark C building in Warsaw, which houses the head office of the Skanska’s commercial development business unit in the CEE region, has just been obtained a renewal of its Well Commercial Interior certificate. This is the first such recertification in Poland and the CEE region, and the second in Europe.
All 17 properties in the Polish portfolio of Romanian developer Globalworth have obtained Well Health-Safety Rating certification.
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 ...
Skanska has entered into a partnership with the WasteTracker startup. The smart waste counter will help monitor and report on waste streams, supportin ...
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 ...
Here it is at last! The latest issue of Eurobuild is out fresh from the printers, and in it, as always, there's plenty of market news, expert opinions ...
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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 ...
The Moxy Hotels brand has announced the expansion of its European portfolio to 100 hotels by the end of 2025. 17 more hotels are to open by the end o ...
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 ...
Ghelamco has renewed its partnership with Polish railway operator PKP SA and its real estate division Xcity Investment related to the redevelopment of ...
Viterra has moved into its new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime, part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk. The Design Anatomy studio is ...
Starachowice’s Galardia shopping center, developed from a greenfield by Stage Capital and Sierra Balmain, has a new owner – Future Estate. Opened in O ...
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 ...
HB Reavis has signed seven-year lease agreements with Transition Technologies and other companies, which will occupy nearly 1,000 sqm of office space ...
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 ...
Czech property group Mint is finalising the construction of its premium Metropolis residential project in Bratislava, which will comprise 298 luxury ...
German department store chain Woolworth has signed a lease agreement for almost 1,000 sqm in the Galeria Słoneczna shopping centre in Radom.
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 ...
Polish parcel dispatch company InPost has leased 11,000 sqm at MDC2 Park Kraków South. The BTS project is to be built on a site prepared exclusively f ...
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