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Investment & finance
Skanska wants to take over five star hotel in Warsaw
POLAND/EUROPE Skanska Central Europe Holding is about to take over SPS Investment, the majority stake owner of Warsaw’s Westin hotel.
Czarnecki takes over Hajdarowicz land plots in Kraków
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
RUSSIA The Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovo Airport hotel in St Petersburg has been opened.
LC Waikiki expands in Ukraine
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
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
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.
Conferences
Schedule 2026
25th Eurobuild Golf Tournament
2st EurobuildCEE Summer Tennis Tournament
3rd EurobuildCEE Running Tournament
10.Przejazd Garnitury na Rowery
The 22nd CEE Warehouse & Logistics Conference
Data Centers – Real Estate, Technology, Investments
32nd Polish Commercial Real Estate Market Conference
The 16th Central & Eastern Europe EurobuildCEE Awards 2026
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Architecture and urban planning
Plans created for Airport City around CPK
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 ...
Świecie remodelled around castle
Dance centre opens in Warsaw
Construction
Dekpol debuts in Romania with 20,000 sqm logistics park
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 ...
Construction industry waiting to boom
Warsaw returns another building to its prime
Coronavirus
Vaccination centre provided by Globalworth
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Employers in no rush to return to workplaces
Catella sees hope and chances for real estate after Covid-19
Corporate social responsibility
Not only for horses
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
Panattoni sticks to the fairway
Colliers ends operations in Russia, Belarus
E-commerce
This is the end
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 ...
Wildberries now growing in Ukraine
Wildberries growing in April
ESG
Setting out the direction for the real estate industry
The Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate, with the Polish Council of Shopping Centres, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and the Urban ...
Designer Outlet Sosnowiec goes green
Idea Aurora takes BREEAM
Eurobuild Awards
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
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 ...
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Call for nominations and jury members!
Eurobuild FM
The power of community
We spoke with Zdena Noack, managing director of Zeitraum Student Housing, during the opening of Zeitraum Racławicka in Kraków.
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 3
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 2
EurobuildCEE
Kazimierz Krupa takes the helm of Eurobuild magazine!
We are pleased to announce that Kazimierz Krupa, an economic journalist and capital market analyst, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Eurobuild CE ...
The March (MIPIM) issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The latest issue of Eurobuild has hit the shelves!
Events
Geopolitics meets capital and energy
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 ...
Bieg Na Szczyt this weekend
Last chance to register for Eurobuild Investment Conference
Exclusive
Our plans are ambitious
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 ...
Our plans are ambitious
From Tallinn to Dubrovnik
Eye to eye
Eye to eye… with Władysław Grochowski
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.
Eye to eye… with Paweł Sapek
Eye to eye with… Daniel Bienias
For Ukraine
Nansen Refugee Award goes to Poland!
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 ...
Build Europe supports refugees and appeals to European Commission
Former Russian building to house Ukrainian refugees
Green projects
EIB grants CTP solar-powered €200m loan
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 ...
Cromwell granted €66m green loan for Janki
Pad Res to build 2 PV farms in Pomerania
Hotels
Hotel transactions boom
The Czech hotel market is building on an exceptionally strong year in 2025, marked by a significant increase in transaction volumes and investor inter ...
Mercure expands in Romania
Lithuanians construct hotel in Gdańsk
Human resources
Change at the top for ULI Europe
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has appointed Simon Durkin as Chief Executive Officer Europe, ULI, succeeding Lisette van Doorn, commencing early March ...
ULI announces new chairs
Panattoni bets big on data centres
Infrastructure
Tourism fuelled by growth in aviation
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 ...
Road agreement signed for CPK
One step closer to atomic power
Interior design
New food hall in Poznań
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 ...
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
New look for Otis offices
Investment & finance
7R places PLN 52 mln bond issue
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 ...
Czechs snap up Royal Wilanów
Accolade and Conseq buy into Kaufland centre
Land acquisitions
Panattoni enlarges its Swedish portfolio
Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg, Sweden. The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility.
CTP purchases land in Kragujevac
CTP secures major brownfield site
Material partner
Brownfield rather than greenfield – a model for sustainable development at City Point Targówek
Contemporary cities are grappling with the challenge of fostering dynamic growth while alleviating environmental pressures. Traditional infrastructure ...
Nordbygg 2024: Many innovations and strong interest
Excellent Fern at Off Piotrkowska
Office & mixed-use development
Savills appointed to Sobański
Savills has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent for the commercialisation of Sobański Palace, a prestigious heritage property in Warsaw.
Nowy Styl stays for longer
ISS appointed to Studio A
Property and Facility Management
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
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 ...
Savills takes on two Warsaw buildings
Tensions in the gulf promote energy efficiency
Public buildings
A new look for central Warsaw
The city of Warsaw has allocated PLN 5 million for the construction of al. Centralna, a green passageway between the Warsaw Śródmieście railway statio ...
Oleśnica railway station restored
Warsaw Uni building underway
Residential
PRS continues to grow
The institutional private rented sector (PRS) is becoming an increasingly important part of the residential market, recording supply growth and attrac ...
Bucharest leads the way in home sales
Paris comes to Warsaw
Retail & leisure
More luxury from Bucharest
Europe’s luxury retail market is going through a period of recalibration, marked by moderate sales growth but continued strong interest from brands in ...
Mr. DIY opens in Galeria Północna
Storage enters Blue City
Technology
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
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 ...
Rentujemy to revolutionise the market
Velis has a new name
Warehouse & industrial
Cancom leases from Garbe
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 ...
