News

POLAND Residential developer Atal sold 928 apartments in the first nine months of this year.

Investment & finance

Sales agreement between Marvipol subsidiaries

Architecture and urban planning

POLAND Marvipol is moving assets between its subsidiaries. Verbis Gamma will sell the perpetual usufruct right to a property with an area of 11.11 ha on ul. Kłobucka in Warsaw's Służewiec district to another Marvipol subsidiary – Marvipol Property.

Sun & Snow chooses architects for latest project

POLAND The design of a five-star hotel in Szklarska Poręba is to be prepared by the Warsaw-based architectural studio KM Rubaszkiewicz, following a decision of Sun & Snow and Univitae, the investor behind the enterprise.

Retail & leisure

Media Expert to open in Oleśnica

POLAND A Media Expert electronic goods store is to open in Pogodne Centrum in Oleśnica.

MLP to be sold to Gutseriev family

RUSSIA The Renova Group is selling its 100 pct holding in warehouse developer Multinational Logistics Partnership (MLP) to the Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev and his family.

Investment figures double in the Baltics

BALTIC STATES With EUR 472 mln transacted in the first half of this year, the investment turnover in the Baltic states more than doubled in comparison to the same period of 2012 (EUR 210 mln), according to a report by Colliers International.

Warehouse supply high but vacancy low

RUSSIA The amount of newly delivered industrial and logistics space could reach 1 mln sqm in the Moscow region this year, which would be the highest result since 2007, according to the Moscow Region Industrial Big Box research report by CBRE.

Investment & finance

PBB loans EUR 55.8 mln for Galeria Pomorska

POLAND PBB Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has agreed a EUR 55.8 mln medium-term refinancing and construction loan for a fund managed by Resolution Property.

Investment & finance

GTC to sell Galeria Kazimierz to Invesco

POLAND Globe Trade Centre has concluded negotiations with Nellia, part of the Invesco Group, to sell the Galeria Kazimierz shopping centre in Kraków.

Echo buys Kraków city centre plot

POLAND Property consultants Leach & Lang have advised on the sale of a residential plot in Kraków.

CTP secures EUR 79.5 mln loan extension

CZECH REPUBLIC Industrial developer CTP and long-term financial partners KB/SoGe have signed a new loan facility of EUR 79.5 mln for the refinancing of a portfolio of existing properties.

Construction

Three more contracts for Eiffage

POLAND Eiffage Group has been awarded a contract for the extension of Galeria Sudecka in Jelenia Góra.

Retail & leisure

Calypso comes to Ferio

POLAND Calypso Fitness Club is to open in the Ferio shopping centre in Stare Miasto near Konin. The tenant, which has leased 1,150 sqm, will open the gym at the beginning of next year.

Warehouse & industrial

Business Archiv stays for longer in MLP Group project

POLAND Business Archiv is to extend its stay in the MLP Pruszków I park owned by MLP Group. The company has also expanded the area leased by 100 sqm to occupy almost 2,000 sqm.

Three companies move closer to Dworzec Gdański contract

POLAND Ghelamco GP 6 (a subsidiary of Ghelamco Poland), a consortium made up of Immobel Poland and Immobel SA, and a consortium of Ymma Holding, Penta Investments and Penta Investments Limited have been invited to the second stage of the tender for the development of the Dworzec Gdański station and the area around it in Warsaw by the Polish State Railways (PKP).

S5 section waits for new contractor

POLAND The General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) has invited bids for the completion of the Kaczkowo–Korzeńsko section of the S5 expressway.

JR Invest to buy Katowice mixed-use centre

POLAND JR Invest is to buy a class ‘A’ office, retail and services centre in Katowice. The seller of the property is Maksimum.

Decathlon XS moves into another Carrefour centre

POLAND Koodza, the owner of the Decathlon XS sports goods chain, is to open a store in Galeria Śląska in Rybnik, which is owned by Carrefour Polska.

Retail & leisure

Gagarinsky mall forced to give away its name

Eurobuild CEE

RUSSIA A Russian intellectual property court has ruled to annul the registration of the brand ‘Gagarinsky shopping and entertainment centre’, after accepting the arguments of the eldest daughter of the famous cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin that this use of his name is illegal.

Residential

AFI starts 9,000-apartment project near Moscow