WORLD In H1 2014, Cushman & Wakefield’s gross revenue increased to nearly USD 1.28 bln, a 23.7 pct y-o-y increase. The company’s commission and service fee revenue increased USD 174.2 mln, a 24.2 pct increase, to a record USD 895.2 mln, compared to USD 721 mln in H1 2013.
POLAND Warsaw-based developer Echo Investment has decided to issue another tranche of bonds addressed to individual investors. Series ‘C’ will include 750,000 of 3.5-year bonds worth PLN 100 each, the company informed.
Retail & leisure
ROMANIA South Africa-based developer New Europe Property Investments (NEPI) has opened its 25,000 sqm Bucharest shopping mall, Vulcan Value Centre.
POLAND Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) is set to start the construction work on a 1,100 sqm retail building in Łodź’s Retkinia district in late 2014 or early 2015, the company informed.
Warehouse & industrial
POLAND Prologis has signed four leases in the Small Business Unit Building (SBU), which offers small warehouse modules in Prologis Park Wrocław III.
POLAND UPS has plans to invest USD 25 mln in two projects in the Łódź area: one in the town of Stryków, app. 20 km northeast of Łódź, and the other in the city itself.
Retail & leisure
POLAND Resolution Property has completed a four-storey car park with 900 spaces in Galeria Pomorska in Bydgoszcz, which marks the completion of the second phase of the mall’s enlargement.
Investment & finance
CEE REGION In H1 2014, the Baltic countries have seen office sector dominating their real estate investment volumes, while their total value reached EUR 385 mln, a 18.4 pct y-o-y drop, says Colliers.
Warehouse & industrial
CZECH REPUBLIC Czech online electronics retailer Alza.cz has leased 12,600 sqm of warehousing space in Prologis Park Prague Úžice.
CEE REGION UK-based Segro has managed to arrange a EUR 208 mln loan for European Logistics Partnership (SELP), its 50/50 joint venture with Canadian pension fund Public Sector Pension Investment Board, to co-finance the EUR 472 mln logistics property purchase it is making across Europe.
RUSSIA A Lenta hypermarket, an H&M fashion store and a Deti children’s store will occupy over 16,000 sqm in total in Torgoviy Park N1, which being developed by Norman Asset Management in Zhukovskiy, 40 km southeast of Moscow.
ROMANIA Israeli-owned shopping center developer Plaza Centers has ultimately given up on its Târgu Mureș retail project, as it has sold the site, valued at EUR 3.5 mln, to an undisclosed developer.
Retail & leisure
POLAND Real Estate Central Europe (RECE) – the owner and manager of the Skwery Handlowe network of convenience shopping centres – has extended its lease agreement with the Pepco chain.
Office & mixed-use development
POLAND Artur Lebiedziński, the president of PHN, has revealed at a press conference that the Jems Architekci studio is to design a new office project on ul. Stawki in Warsaw.
Construction
POLAND Construction work on IKEA’s ninth Polish store and its first in the Kuyavia-Pomerania has now started.
Office & mixed-use development
POLAND The tenants of the Browar Lubicz revitalisation project in Kraków have been joined by the Browar Lubicz company itself, which is planning to open a restaurant brewery in the former malt house building.
Investment & finance
POLAND PKO BP and Pekao Bank Hipoteczny banks have granted a loan to Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) for the construction of the Domaniewska Office Hub project in Warsaw’s Mokotów district.
Hotels
LATVIA The Orbis/Accor hotel group has opened the first Ibis Styles hotel in Latvia: Ibis Styles Riga.
Investment & finance
POLAND The dynamic growth of the Czerwona Torebka group has contributed to an increase in its consolidated revenue in the first half of the year.
Retail & leisure
POLAND ECC Real Estate, the developer of the Promenada shopping and entertainment centre in Warsaw (now renamed Atrium Promenada), is to carry out another retail project just outside the capital.
CBRE and 4CF have been selected as strategic advisors for the Airport City project, part of the Port Polska development programme. The two companies w ...
Dekpol Budownictwo is eentering Romania. In December 2025, the company signed an agreement with a developer to carry out design work for the first sta ...
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 ...
The Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate, with the Polish Council of Shopping Centres, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and the Urban ...
The 15th EurobuildCEE Awards Gala is now behind us and all the winners can be revealed! Special congratulations go to Kazimierz Kirejczyk, who was pre ...
We spoke with Zdena Noack, managing director of Zeitraum Student Housing, during the opening of Zeitraum Racławicka in Kraków.
We are pleased to announce that Kazimierz Krupa, an economic journalist and capital market analyst, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Eurobuild CE ...
ULI Poland is to hold the 'Matrix of Real Estate' conference from April 15th -16th at the Norblin Factory in Warsaw to discuss the impact of geopoliti ...
Recently, Martin Ohly was appointed to the newly created position of head of Germany at 7R, so what better opportunity could there be to find out abou ...
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 Czech hotel market is building on an exceptionally strong year in 2025, marked by a significant increase in transaction volumes and investor inter ...
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has appointed Simon Durkin as Chief Executive Officer Europe, ULI, succeeding Lisette van Doorn, commencing early March ...
Expanding airport capacity in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa will play a key role in sustaining long-term tourism growth and supporting demand fo ...
The Wiedeńska Town House in the centre of Poznań, which dates back to the early 20th century, has been renovated and converted into a food hall with i ...
7R has issued series D bonds with an aggregate nominal value of PLN 52 mln. The bonds will mature in three years and carry an interest rate of 4.25 pc ...
Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg, Sweden. The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility.
Contemporary cities are grappling with the challenge of fostering dynamic growth while alleviating environmental pressures. Traditional infrastructure ...
Savills has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent for the commercialisation of Sobański Palace, a prestigious heritage property in Warsaw.
JLL has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent responsible for the Equal Business Park office complex in Kraków, owned by Apollo Rida. JLL's other ...
The city of Warsaw has allocated PLN 5 million for the construction of al. Centralna, a green passageway between the Warsaw Śródmieście railway statio ...
The institutional private rented sector (PRS) is becoming an increasingly important part of the residential market, recording supply growth and attrac ...
Europe’s luxury retail market is going through a period of recalibration, marked by moderate sales growth but continued strong interest from brands in ...
Skanska CDE has become the first company in Poland to introduce a Neutral Host In-Building (NHIB) infrastructure model, based on the BTS hotel, in its ...
Garbe Industrial has leased a total area of around 4,800 sqm in Norderstedt, just outside Hamburg, to IT service provider Cancom, which is to use the ...