News

Akura moves to force EFH bankruptcy

POLAND Akura, which operates in the insurance industry, has filed for bankruptcy of Europejski Fundusz Hipoteczny (EFH).

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Investment & finance

Globalworth completes EUR 53.6 mln London IPO

ROMANIA Globalworth Real Estate Investments has today announced the successful completion of its IPO and the admission to trading of its ordinary shares on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Warehouse & industrial

Seifert leases 6,200 sqm in Panattoni Park Mysłowice

POLAND Logistics and transportation company Seifert has leased almost 6,200 sqm of warehousing and 500 sqm of office space in Panattoni Park Mysłowice.

Hotels

First Ukrainian golf properties for sale

UKRAINE The sale of the first golf property residences in Ukraine is underway.

Retail & leisure

O’key in Rio

RUSSIA Retail hypermarket chain O’key has opened a store in the Rio shopping centre on Dmitrovskoe Shosse inMoscow.

Skanska to rebuild Łódź road

POLAND Skanska has been awarded a contract with the Road and Transport Authority in Łódź for the redevelopment of ul. Rojna in Łódź.

Budimex contracted for LC Corp Katowice project

POLAND Budimex has been chosen to be the general contractor of an office building in the first stage of an LC Corp project in Katowice.

Warehouse & industrial

MAAN to produce cooker hoods in Pruszków

POLAND Cooker hoods producer of MAAN has leased a production and warehouse area in the MLP Pruszków I logistics park outside Warsaw.

Alterco swaps land for shares

POLAND Alterco has signed a contract to sell a plot at ul. Św. Mikołaja 35 in Gdynia.

Office & mixed-use development

Arup to prepare plan for Chopin Airport City

POLAND Porty Lotnicze and Arup are starting work on a detailed development plan for the area earmarked for the Chopin Airport City project, which is to be built near Chopin Airport in Warsaw.

Sun & Snow to take care of Casa Del Arte Murano sales

POLAND Sun & Snow is to be responsible for the sale of the apartments in Casa Del Arte Murano – a new residential project in Warsaw.

Stokrotka to be built in Dąbrowica

POLAND A Stokrotka supermarket with a small gallery is to be developed in Dąbrowica (Lublin province).

Griffin Group to fight for land in Warsaw

POLAND At the beginning of June the Warsaw District Court rescinded Griffin Group’s perpetual usufruct rights for a plot at ul. 29 Listopada 5 in Warsaw.

Residential

REAS sees home sales growth in largest cities

POLAND The number of transactions on the Polish residential market has increased to the highest level since 2009, according to the ‘Residential Market in Poland’ report by the REAS consultancy.

Construction

P.R.E.S.C.O. Group to open new operations centre

POLAND P.R.E.S.C.O. Group, which operates on the mass-scale consumer receivables market in Poland, is to open a new operations centre on ul. Witaszka in Piła.

Mostostal subsidiary wins swimming pool contract

POLAND Gliwickie Przedsiębiorstwo Budownictwa Przemysłowego, a subsidiary of Mostostal Zabrze Holding, has been awarded a new contract for the completion of work on a roofed swimming pool.

Construction

Toyota to build Długołęka showroom

POLAND Toyota is planning to open a new showroom in Długołęka outside Wrocław in October.

Retail & leisure

Anchor tenant for Silver Breeze

UKRAINE A Silpo supermarket will be anchoring the Silver Breeze shopping centre in Kyiv.

Czech industrial market bucking the economic trend

CZECH REPUBLIC A total of 472,000 sqm of industrial space was leased in the Czech Republic in H1 – an increase of more than 70 pct on H1 2012’s figure of 265,000 sqm, according to a report by Cushman & Wakefield.