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Czarnecki takes over Hajdarowicz land plots in Kraków

schedule 01 August 2014
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Not Murapol but LC Corp, a company owned by the Polish millionaire Leszek Czarnecki, will buy a 6.4 ha Kraków land plot. The seller is the Jupiter fund, a part of the Gremi group that is owned by Grzegorz Hajdarowicz.

Construction

Underwater tunnel to link Crimea with Russia?

schedule 01 August 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA/UKRAINE Chinese investors have offered the Crimean authorities to build a 4 km long underwater tunnel on the bottom of the Kerch Strait. The tunnel would accommodate two-way railway tracks and a six-lane motorway.

Investment & finance

Czerwona Torebka sees improved sales in H1 2014

schedule 01 August 2014
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND In the first half of 2014, Czerwona Torebka has managed to sell 54 units worth nearly PLN 31 mln. Their total leasable area reached 4,900 sqm, a three-fold y-o-y increase, the company informed

Bad-debt weakened Erste posts EUR 930 mln loss in H1

schedule 01 August 2014
Agata Kłapeć

CEE REGION Austrian banking group Erste has seen a EUR 929.7 mln loss in the first half of 2014 driven by the writedowns and tax regulations across the CEE markets.

OTP Group acquires Romanian Millennium Bank for EUR 39 mln

schedule 01 August 2014
Agata Kłapeć

ROMANIA Portuguese commercial bank Banco Comercial Português is selling its Romanian unit, Millennium Bank, to the Hungarian OTP Bank that operates across eight CEE markets.

Investment & finance

NEPI buys Piatra Neamț plot for mall

schedule 31 July 2014
Nathan North
deputy editor

ROMANIA South African-owned investor in the Romanian property market NEPI have announced in an annual report that it has bought a 7.4 ha site in Piatra Neamț in the north-east of the country.

Warehouse vacancy grows in Kyiv area

schedule 31 July 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

UKRAINE At the end of Q2 2014 the primary vacancy level in the warehousing sector in the greater Kyiv area amounted to 10.1 pct, representing a 5.4 pct increase on to Q1, according to research by DTZ.

Developers shift interest to smaller cities

schedule 31 July 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND In H1 2014 over half of new retail space was completed in cities with less than 100,000 inhabitants, with another 22 pct in cities with populations of between 100,000 and 200,000, according to research by DTZ.

Japanese investors choose Etalon

schedule 31 July 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA EtalonPromstroy, Etalon Group’s industrial construction subsidiary, has been selected by Japanese investors Unipres Corporation as the general contractor for the design and construction of a 16,000 sqm automobile components factory.

Investment & finance

CEE office yields harden in H1 2014

schedule 31 July 2014

CEE REGION The first half of the year has seen many European office rentals improving, along with the prime yields hardening in some of the CEE cities, including Bucharest (-50 bps), Budapest (-25 bps) and Prague (-25 bps), a study by Colliers International shows.

Retail & leisure

Klépierre builds multibillion retail empire

schedule 31 July 2014
Agata Kłapeć

EUROPE Paris-listed pan-European shopping centre operator Klépierre is set to acquire the Netherlands-based retail group Corio for EUR 7.2 bln. The move comes as Klépierre, which owns assets worth EUR 14 bln, aims to strengthen its position on the market and become Europe’s “leading pure-play retail property company.”

Office & mixed-use development

Salamanca Group opens Infinity Tower in Sofia

schedule 30 July 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

BULGARIA London-based investor Salamanca Group has opened the 21,000 sqm Infinity Tower office building, a part of the Bulgaria Mall complex.

Warehouse & industrial

Toyota almost doubles-up in Prologis Park Prague-Jirny

schedule 30 July 2014
Nathan North
deputy editor

CZECH REPUBLIC Toyota Tsusho Europe has leased more than 13,000 sqm of space in Prologis Park Prague-Jirny, increasing its space from the previously leased 7,500 sqm.

Metrostav takes on jumbo contract

schedule 30 July 2014
Nathan North
deputy editor

CZECH REPUBLIC Metrostav has started work on adapting a section of Václav Havel International Airport in Prague for the use of giant Airbus A380 jumbo jets.

Investment & finance

Echo Investment in talks to sell two shopping malls

schedule 30 July 2014
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Warsaw-listed developer Echo Investment is negotiating a sale of two Polish shopping centres: Pasaż Grunwaldzki in Wrocław and Galaxy in Szczecin.

Hotels

Park Inn by Radisson opens in Pulkovo Airport

schedule 30 July 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA The Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovo Airport hotel in St Petersburg has been opened.

LC Waikiki expands in Ukraine

schedule 30 July 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

UKRAINE Turkish fashion retailer LC Waikiki has singed a 1,190 sqm lease for space in the Riviera shopping centre in Odessa.

Polish warehouse market keeps growing

schedule 30 July 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND The volume of newly delivered warehouse space in Poland in the first half of the year amounted to 326,000 sqm, compared to the 198,000 sqm delivered in H1 2013, according to an industrial market report by Colliers International.

Moscow warehouse supply triples

schedule 30 July 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA Around 630,000 sqm of new warehouse space was delivered in the first half of the year in the Moscow Region – almost three times more than in H1 2013, according to JLL.

Warehouse & industrial

Rico enters Poland

schedule 30 July 2014
Nathan North
deputy editor

POLAND Rico Logistics, part of the Rico Group, is to open its first Polish office.

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