News
Investment & finance
Poland Panattoni sells two industrial parks
Panattoni has finalised the sale of two industrial developments near to the administrative capital of the Lower Silesian region. Together, Panattoni Park Wrocław East, and Panattoni Park Wrocław S8 South comprise a total area of almost 43,000 sqm.
Investment & finance
Poland Ghelamco sells Warsaw Hub hotel tower
Ghelamco has finalised the sale a high-rise building forming part of The Warsaw Hub complex, which houses the Crowne Plaza and Holiday Express Inn hotels, to French fund Corum XL for an undisclosed sum.
Warehouse & industrial
Poland Garbe goes big in Brandenburg
Garbe Industrial Real Estate has purchased a 420,000-sqm plot of land in the Berlin area. Construction is expected to start in the Q4 2027 once building rights have been obtained and the site has been developed.
Office & mixed-use development
Europe Office occupancy rate steadily rises
Average office occupancy rates across eight major European markets have risen in the last six months from 55 pct to 57 pct, says Savills, however on Tuesdays and Wednesdays the average is 64 pct and 62 pct respectively, closer to the pre-pandemic rate of circa 70 pct.
Warehouse & industrial
Poland Panattoni hands over another park
Panattoni has completed the third stage of Panattoni Park Zielona Góra III which is now 80 pct leased. ECE Logistics remains the largest tenant with its largest single-location lease being in the centre.
Investment & finance
Poland Vastint set to buy Arkady Wrocławskie
Develia and Vastint Poland have signed a preliminary agreement for the sale of Arkady Wrocławskie. The net sale price was set at EUR 42.9 mln, or app. PLN 185.6 mln. The transaction is expected to be finalised by the end of August 2025.
Warehouse & industrial
Romania Mediapost Hit Mail takes 19,000 sqm in Bucharest
Mediapost Hit Mail has leased 19,000 sqm of space including warehousing and office area in Chitila Logistics Hub, the industrial park developed by Global Vision and Globalworth in Bucharest. The company will operate logistics and e-commerce services for companies in the retail, FMCG, energy and services sectors.
Eurobuild FM
Poland The special edition – summaries and forecasts (ep. 2)
Welcome to the hottest episode of the special New Year's edition of Eurobuild FM! We are asking the most important players on Europe's investment market to summarise the passing year and to give us their forecasts for 2024. Today, we speak to Piotr Trzciński, head of Poland at Savills Investment Management.
ESG
Czech Republic Interest in sustainability is growing
With the upcoming introduction of mandatory non-financial reporting, which will require companies to report on how they are performing in the areas of environment, employee relations, and ethical working practices, industrial and logistics companies are taking a keener interest in sustainable solutions, shows the research by Colliers.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland Lakeside ready for use
Warsaw's Lakeside office building has been granted a use permit. Future tenants of the building, currently 80 pct leased, include companies from the medical, energy and IT sectors.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland Epam opens new HQ in Brain Park
Epam Polska has opened a new Kraków office in Brain Park office complex. The company is based in almost 8,500 sqm of office space in two buildings connected by a shared terrace.
Events
Poland Rondo 1 Run Up for the 12th time!
Runner registration has just opened for the next year’s Rondo 1 Run Up. The event will take place on 16 March 2024.
Investment & finance
Poland Murapol makes its WSE debut
Murapol has listed on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange as of today. The debut on the Warsaw trading floor, which took place on Friday, is the culmination of the public offering of its shares, the value of which reached app. PLN 404 mln at the end of trading.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland Panattoni grows in Warsaw Spire
Panattoni completed the fit out of its new space in Warsaw Spire and moved into an office with a total area of 4,500 sqm. In the six years since the company moved into the office tower, it has increased the area of its lease by 250 pct.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland Skyliner II takes off in spring
Construction of the second phase of the Skyliner office complex at Rondo Daszyńskiego in Warsaw will start in February 2024. The works will last 34 months. Karimpol Polska has again chosen Warbud as the general contractor for the investment.
Eurobuild FM
Poland The special edition – summaries and forecasts (ep. 1)
The special New Year's edition of Eurobuild FM has now been launched! We will be asking the most important players on Europe's investment market to summarise the passing year and to give us their forecasts for 2024. Today, we speak to our first expert – Christopher Mertlitz, the head of European investment at W.P. Carey, who shares his opinions exclusively for Eurobuild's readers.
Property and Facility Management
Poland Savills to look after Lakeside
Savills will become the manager of the Lakeside office building. The complex is currently the largest development being built outside the central part of the capital. Atenor is responsible for its development.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland Colliers gets into Form
In Q1 2025, Colliers' team will move into The Form office building being developed by Lincoln Property Company Poland on ul. Miedziana in Warsaw. The firm's new headquarters will occupy more than 2,900 sqm on the top floor of the building.
Eurobuild FM
Poland Giovanna Jagger on the WELL standards
Welcome to Eurobuild FM! We invited an excellent ESG expert to the today's episode – Giovanna Jagger, senior director Global Market Development EMEA | ESG at the IWBI, visited Poland and gave us an exclusive interview.
Office & mixed-use development
Germany Ready for West Yard 29
The municipal assembly in Darmstadt has approved the new zoning plan for the site where Warimpex owns hotel as well as property reserves. That allows the Austrian company to develop office properties with a maximum of 77,500 sqm of space.
Categories
Architecture and urban planning
Praga to tower up over Warsaw
High-rise developments may be developed near the National Stadium metro station. The city's spatial policy clearly aims to break down the division bet ...
ULI releases New Urban Poland report
Plans created for Airport City around CPK
Construction
Polish construction sector faces growing labour shortage
Poland’s construction sector is facing increasing labour shortages, with the industry short of around 150,000 workers. Turnover among engineers has re ...
Carbon Counts in Construction
Polish construction sector under pressure
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
Data centres
Poland to benefit from data centre realignment
While just a few years ago, investment locations were primarily determined by demand, today access to electricity is becoming a key factor. According ...
Data centres spread out across the region
Poland to be the new data hub
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
EPP meets 2030 emissions reduction targets ahead of schedule
EPP has already met the emissions reduction targets it set for 2030 under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which helps companies set emiss ...
PAD RES launches 24 MW solar farms in Koszalin district
The Grand Pardubice now Excellent
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
The June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The June issue of EurobuildCEE magazine has now hit the shelves! And one of its recurring themes is how best to operate in an increasingly mature and ...
This sporting real estate life
The May issue of Eurobuild is now out!
Events
JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament on August 6th
On 6 August, the 15th JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament for the Real Estate Industry will take place at Warsaw's Monta Beach Volley Club. Eurobu ...
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
Let's play volleyball again
Exclusive
The man from NASA
Czechia stands out as the CEE country with the largest volume of domestic capital invested across the region itself. Now, NASA Capital has entered Pol ...
Strengthening our presence – Wolfgang Molnar of Erste Group Bank
Experienced and out-of-the-box – Josef Malíř of SCF
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
Bob W to open fifth Tallinn property at Krulli Quarter
Bob W has signed a long-term deal to operate a new aparthotel at Krulli Kvartal, part of the 10.2 ha regeneration of the historic Krulli industrial qu ...
Prague moves into top 10 for hotel investment
Mövenpick opens first Croatian hotel on Adriatic coast
Human resources
Ghelamco reshuffles management team in Poland
Agnieszka Ciupak has been appointed managing director of Ghelamco in Poland. She joins Przemysław Dąbrowski, Jakub Kutzmann and Krzysztof Gozdecki as ...
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Change at the top for ULI Europe
Infrastructure
Port Polska and Kielce plan cargo terminal
Port Polska and the City of Kielce have signed a letter of intent covering plans for a cargo terminal in Obice, near Kielce. The centre would handle b ...
New railway station planned for Łapy
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
Interior design
ING Hubs Poland opens new HQ in The Form
ING Hubs Poland is officially moving into its new headquarters in The Form office building in Warsaw’s Wola business district. The more than 6,000 sqm ...
New food hall in Poznań
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
Investment & finance
Nusco secures EUR 21.4 mln financing from Exim Banca Românească
Romanian developer Nusco has signed a EUR 21.4 mln financing agreement with Exim Banca Românească.
CEECAT Capital raises EUR 135m at first close of third fund
Poland attracts EUR 3.06 bln in commercial real estate investment in H1
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
Port Polska to reshape Łódź
Port Polska and the expansion of high-speed rail could reshape Łódź’s office market over the longer term, bringing the city closer to Warsaw economica ...
Takeda moves Warsaw office to Studio A
The Shire extends lease at Korona in Kraków
Property and Facility Management
ISS takes over technical management of Axis in Kraków
ISS has taken over the technical facility management of Axis, an office building in Kraków owned by French fund Corum XL. The company is providing tec ...
Savills takes on TFI PZU retail portfolio
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
Public buildings
Prague 14 begins construction of primary school in Jahodnice
Prague 14 has begun construction of a new primary school in Jahodnice. The school, at U Hostavického potoka Street, will accommodate 540 pupils, with ...
Construction begins on emergency care unit at Prague’s Thomayer University Hospital
Dekpol to redevelop the Poznań Palm House
Residential
RealCo sells out Wrocław project
RealCo has sold all 133 apartments at its Apartamenty przy Parku Szczytnickim project in Wrocław. The apartments are spread across 10 buildings. The d ...
Apartment sales launched for Sosnowa Vita
Matexi sells 75 pct of Sady Żoliborz apartments
Retail & leisure
Pasaż Łańcucki 90 pct commercialised
Refield is developing Pasaż Łańcucki, an 11,200 sqm retail park in Łańcut, southeastern Poland. The project is being developed on a 3.5 ha site locate ...
Medicine Opens Expanded Store in Galeria Pomorska
CeX opens store in Wola Park
Technology
Singu takes over QRmaint
Singu, a European platform for managing commercial property, has today announced the acquisition of QRmaint, one of Europe's fastest-growing providers ...
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Warehouse & industrial
Warehouse vacancy falls to three-year low
The vacancy rate in Poland’s warehouse market fell to 6.6 pct at the end of June, its lowest level in three years. At the same time, gross take-up ros ...
